The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 244A. Constable, 1926 |
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... Empire Abyssinia : Past and Present Problems of Forestry Prohibition and Usury The Care of the Insane 209 K.C.S.I. 228 F. A. W. GISBORNE 249 Maj . - General Sir F. H. SYKES , G.B.E. , K.C.B. , C.M.G. , M.P. 264 C. F. REY 276 Dr. BARBER ...
... Empire Abyssinia : Past and Present Problems of Forestry Prohibition and Usury The Care of the Insane 209 K.C.S.I. 228 F. A. W. GISBORNE 249 Maj . - General Sir F. H. SYKES , G.B.E. , K.C.B. , C.M.G. , M.P. 264 C. F. REY 276 Dr. BARBER ...
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... Empire . Yet the legend of British greed and tyranny has long been discredited , and that by the patient labour not of British , but of American historians . In this respect the cause of Anglo - American friendship is indebted in an ...
... Empire . Yet the legend of British greed and tyranny has long been discredited , and that by the patient labour not of British , but of American historians . In this respect the cause of Anglo - American friendship is indebted in an ...
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... Empire . It is not necessary to enlarge on the causes which changed this attitude . They are well summed up in a letter of Richard Henry Lee , written on the 2nd of June , 1776 , five days before he moved in Congress the first ...
... Empire . It is not necessary to enlarge on the causes which changed this attitude . They are well summed up in a letter of Richard Henry Lee , written on the 2nd of June , 1776 , five days before he moved in Congress the first ...
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... Empire , and sovereignty implies plenary authority to legislate and to tax . The attitude of Pitt , who main- tained that the absolute authority of Parliament to legislate for the colonies did not include the right of internal taxation ...
... Empire , and sovereignty implies plenary authority to legislate and to tax . The attitude of Pitt , who main- tained that the absolute authority of Parliament to legislate for the colonies did not include the right of internal taxation ...
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... Empire . The causes of the great disruption , indeed , lay deeper than any resentment at particular assertions of Imperial authority . They lay in the tendency of the colonies to independence , a tendency which was present from the ...
... Empire . The causes of the great disruption , indeed , lay deeper than any resentment at particular assertions of Imperial authority . They lay in the tendency of the colonies to independence , a tendency which was present from the ...
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Page 230 - With benevolent intentions he murdered Afzal Khan for the good of others. If thieves enter our house and we have not sufficient strength to drive them out, we should without hesitation shut them up and burn them alive.
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Page 126 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.