The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 241A. Constable, 1925 |
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Page 11
... least a strong Protestant . So it has come about that the new type of ecclesiastic has no sympathy with Toryism or Liberalism , but woos the favour of the Labour party . 66 This is hardly a legitimate development of the Catholic ...
... least a strong Protestant . So it has come about that the new type of ecclesiastic has no sympathy with Toryism or Liberalism , but woos the favour of the Labour party . 66 This is hardly a legitimate development of the Catholic ...
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... least let us not needlessly throw away what they have won . It is not a question of religious freedom only , it is a question of learning and culture in every form . . . . As a Church , it is unique ; if suffered to drop out of ...
... least let us not needlessly throw away what they have won . It is not a question of religious freedom only , it is a question of learning and culture in every form . . . . As a Church , it is unique ; if suffered to drop out of ...
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... least of all , the existing entente , or a permanent understanding of all the English- speaking peoples ) of a kind that might in time commend itself to the considered judgment of the American people , but simply to postpone the larger ...
... least of all , the existing entente , or a permanent understanding of all the English- speaking peoples ) of a kind that might in time commend itself to the considered judgment of the American people , but simply to postpone the larger ...
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... least to neutralise it , in the event of an armed conflict arising out of the application of these laws . Indeed , it is hard to see how the League can be effective for peace if it be debarred from dealing with this matter . Yet , if ...
... least to neutralise it , in the event of an armed conflict arising out of the application of these laws . Indeed , it is hard to see how the League can be effective for peace if it be debarred from dealing with this matter . Yet , if ...
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... least open to objection , and it was precisely the absence of this obligation which has been urged in America as one of the chief reasons against the United States being represented on this Court . Yet , in spite of the attractive- ness ...
... least open to objection , and it was precisely the absence of this obligation which has been urged in America as one of the chief reasons against the United States being represented on this Court . Yet , in spite of the attractive- ness ...
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Page 28 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Page 36 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Page 317 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 16 - We hold that seeing there is not any man of the Church of England, but the same man is also a member of the Commonwealth, nor any man a member of the Commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England...
Page 97 - God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Page 28 - If the dispute between the parties is claimed by one of them, and is found by the Council, to arise out of a matter which by international law is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the Council shall so report, and shall make no recommendation as to its settlement.
Page 229 - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Page 125 - Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.
Page 65 - ... of the voting, the number of votes cast in each commune will be communicated by the Commission to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, with a full report as to the taking of the vote and a recommendation as to the line which ought to be adopted as the frontier of Germany in Upper Silesia.
Page 21 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.