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General Wood has made extensive use of his power of veto , and it is with this aspect of his government that Seņor Bocobo's pamphlet deals , for its author is strongly of the opinion that an act of the Philippine Congress can only be ...
General Wood has made extensive use of his power of veto , and it is with this aspect of his government that Seņor Bocobo's pamphlet deals , for its author is strongly of the opinion that an act of the Philippine Congress can only be ...
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When the late President Harding denounced Mr. Harrison's policy as " hauling down the flag , " he certainly expressed the opinion of more of his fellow - countrymen than would have cared to admit the fact . The economic value of the ...
When the late President Harding denounced Mr. Harrison's policy as " hauling down the flag , " he certainly expressed the opinion of more of his fellow - countrymen than would have cared to admit the fact . The economic value of the ...
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Of course his attitude must not be taken as in any way representative , but it may help to explain the insensitiveness to , or rather unconsciousness of , world opinion that prevails in South Africa . slightest prospect .
Of course his attitude must not be taken as in any way representative , but it may help to explain the insensitiveness to , or rather unconsciousness of , world opinion that prevails in South Africa . slightest prospect .
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... not to mention the influence of opinion in the world outside . On the other hand , if the standard of earnings and the choice of occupations by natives is allowed to expand naturally , there will be progressive assimilation between ...
... not to mention the influence of opinion in the world outside . On the other hand , if the standard of earnings and the choice of occupations by natives is allowed to expand naturally , there will be progressive assimilation between ...
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... there should be no repressive legislation ; the semi - servile condition in which they are now placed in some of the provinces cannot be justified in a world where public opinion has long since decided that slavery is intolerable .
... there should be no repressive legislation ; the semi - servile condition in which they are now placed in some of the provinces cannot be justified in a world where public opinion has long since decided that slavery is intolerable .
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Page 225 - BOOK The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. The Book of 1662 with Permissive Additions and Deviations approved in 1927.
Page 1 - which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from potentate to potentate as if they were property.
Page 3 - to-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 246 - never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxims that govern your own life, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon
Page 347 - The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilisation to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point ? Is not every civilisation bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses ? The
Page 273 - Thin, thin, the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts—marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams.
Page 110 - are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one : style is a thinking out into language. . . . When we can separate light and illumination, life and motion, the convex and the concave of a curve, then will it be possible for thought to tread speech under foot, and
Page 293 - a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant rings outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders.
Page 223 - that it was no part of the policy of His Majesty's government in Great Britain that questions affecting judicial appeals should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the wishes of the part of the empire primarily affected.
Page 174 - it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral.