The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 218A. Constable, 1913 |
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... experience gained to counteract or even to reverse the influences which are inexorably drawing on these evils . that each novelty should be held for a suspect ' 22 July NATIONAL INSURANCE National Insurance National Character.
... experience gained to counteract or even to reverse the influences which are inexorably drawing on these evils . that each novelty should be held for a suspect ' 22 July NATIONAL INSURANCE National Insurance National Character.
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... experience in nearly all these branches of State activity is quite recent , Germany has had about thirty years ' experience of compulsion and State regulation in connexion with national insurance as applied to sickness and to accident ...
... experience in nearly all these branches of State activity is quite recent , Germany has had about thirty years ' experience of compulsion and State regulation in connexion with national insurance as applied to sickness and to accident ...
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... experienced pensioners who positively give instruction in neurasthenia ; and everywhere in Germany the workman has ... experiences the former views as to the duration of invalidity after an accident have had to be * Sir J. Collie on ...
... experienced pensioners who positively give instruction in neurasthenia ; and everywhere in Germany the workman has ... experiences the former views as to the duration of invalidity after an accident have had to be * Sir J. Collie on ...
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... experience shows what an enormous bearing the mental condition following on accidents has on the probable time of healing . Whereas in cases where no allowance is attached the patient welcomes any suggestion that his condition is ...
... experience shows what an enormous bearing the mental condition following on accidents has on the probable time of healing . Whereas in cases where no allowance is attached the patient welcomes any suggestion that his condition is ...
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... experience of England . Long before Germany began to gain this disastrous experience , equal or greater support had been claimable under voluntary arrangements by English working people in respect of much the greater part of the ...
... experience of England . Long before Germany began to gain this disastrous experience , equal or greater support had been claimable under voluntary arrangements by English working people in respect of much the greater part of the ...
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Page 283 - old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of ' fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, ' and persons of quality : do you think that the spirits of such ' base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentle' men that have honour and courage and resolution in them
Page 31 - It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation ; and lastly that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a
Page 114 - of translation.' ' It were as wise [he said] to cast a violet ' into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle ' of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language ' into another the creations of a poet.
Page 269 - E se ben ti ricordi, e vedi lume, Vedrai te simigliante a quella inferma, Che non può trovar posa in su le piume. Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma.
Page 206 - of the Democratic party that the federal government has ' no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, ' except for the purposes of revenue only,' and although the Republicans ' reaffirmed the American doctrine of
Page 121 - Aurengzebe ' embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse : ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day.
Page 116 - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one-half by lazy sleep possest, And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast. Eternal troubles haunt thy anxious mind, Whose cause and
Page 202 - : ' Brief, on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight. And go with the hour. ' Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—O hark ! A fleet of bells set sails, And go with the dark. ' Sudden the cold airs swing. Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies with the cloud.
Page 118 - To cite another case, the following lines of ' Paradise Lost ' may be compared with the treatment accorded by Euripides to the same subject : 'Oh, why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as Angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 365 - it. Sir, as you would a guinea, into small coin ?—which done—let the father of confusion puzzle you if he can ; or put a different idea either into your head, or your reader's head, if he knows how.