The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... produce a grotesque picture , and to show up individuals under slightly disguised names is hardly playing the game . To attack a bad Master or even a bad boy publicly and directly is fair enough if necessary , however distasteful ; and ...
... produce a grotesque picture , and to show up individuals under slightly disguised names is hardly playing the game . To attack a bad Master or even a bad boy publicly and directly is fair enough if necessary , however distasteful ; and ...
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... produce a hypnotic state by the repetition of phrases and sounds . The field of the poet , though a small field ( even in later years but little enlarged and nowhere unhedged ) , as yet was new and strange , thus meeting quite easily ...
... produce a hypnotic state by the repetition of phrases and sounds . The field of the poet , though a small field ( even in later years but little enlarged and nowhere unhedged ) , as yet was new and strange , thus meeting quite easily ...
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... production is now left to chance ; control of farmer's acts of husbandry has been abandoned ; the agricultural labourer is given over to the play of the market and to voluntary committees whose decisions can only become binding by ...
... production is now left to chance ; control of farmer's acts of husbandry has been abandoned ; the agricultural labourer is given over to the play of the market and to voluntary committees whose decisions can only become binding by ...
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... production runs at half - speed , and the good year must pay for the bad one and the work run on through a seven - day week , year in and year out , until , at last , the feeble hands can carry the burden no longer and Mother Earth ...
... production runs at half - speed , and the good year must pay for the bad one and the work run on through a seven - day week , year in and year out , until , at last , the feeble hands can carry the burden no longer and Mother Earth ...
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... produce and brought home to the farmer the benefits of milk - recording , the proper cultivation of an orchard , and the improvement of his mongrel poultry . At the winter classes the farmer is taught to grasp some of the problems of ...
... produce and brought home to the farmer the benefits of milk - recording , the proper cultivation of an orchard , and the improvement of his mongrel poultry . At the winter classes the farmer is taught to grasp some of the problems of ...
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Page 58 - The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David ; he will not turn from it ; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Page 110 - China; b. any such monopoly or preference as would deprive the nationals of any other Power of the right of undertaking any legitimate trade or industry in China, or of participating with the Chinese Government, or with any local authority, in any category of public enterprise, or which by reason of its scope, duration or geographical extent is calculated to frustrate the practical application of the principle of equal opportunity.
Page 108 - To respect the sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China; 2. To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government; 3.
Page 238 - promote to the utmost the material and moral well-being and social progress of the inhabitants of the territory.
Page 227 - ... writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus.
Page 109 - To use their influence for the purpose of effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China ; and '4.
Page 110 - The Powers represented in this Conference, considering it desirable that there should hereafter be full publicity with respect to all matters affecting the political and other international obligations of China and of the several Powers in relation to China, are agreed as follows : I.
Page 229 - Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
Page 231 - Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.
Page 231 - Five fathoms out there. Full fathom five thy father lies. At one he said. Found drowned. High water at Dublin bar. Driving before it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. A corpse rising salt white from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise.