The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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... responsibility and accounting should be decentralised as far as individual establishments and regimental units are concerned ; and that the Royal Army Pay Corps and the Corps of Military Accountants should be amalgamated . In view of ...
... responsibility and accounting should be decentralised as far as individual establishments and regimental units are concerned ; and that the Royal Army Pay Corps and the Corps of Military Accountants should be amalgamated . In view of ...
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... responsibility to the League . It is still a system of tutelage , but a transitional system intended for " peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world , " and only until such times as ...
... responsibility to the League . It is still a system of tutelage , but a transitional system intended for " peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world , " and only until such times as ...
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... responsibility as well as power . Five and twenty years ago it would have been welcomed by the educated classes in India , who are more than any other the offspring of British rule , as a tremendous step towards the fulfilment of ...
... responsibility as well as power . Five and twenty years ago it would have been welcomed by the educated classes in India , who are more than any other the offspring of British rule , as a tremendous step towards the fulfilment of ...
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... responsibility . The white men are few , and the climate makes it difficult or irksome for them to undertake the many forms of manual labour essential to the development of the countries in which they have settled . The natives alone ...
... responsibility . The white men are few , and the climate makes it difficult or irksome for them to undertake the many forms of manual labour essential to the development of the countries in which they have settled . The natives alone ...
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... responsible for the crushing handicap which mixed marriages and their offspring have to bear from generation to generation ? Is it not rather a cause for wonder that mixed marriages under such a handicap ever result , as they sometimes ...
... responsible for the crushing handicap which mixed marriages and their offspring have to bear from generation to generation ? Is it not rather a cause for wonder that mixed marriages under such a handicap ever result , as they sometimes ...
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Page 255 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 40 - To refrain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states, and from countenancing action inimical to the security of such states.
Page 148 - ... from the head: by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies...
Page 254 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 152 - ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.
Page 392 - By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted.
Page 266 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 345 - Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Page 149 - A sly sinner, creeping along the very edges of the walks, getting behind benches : one hand in his bosom, the other held up to his chin, as if to keep it in its place : afraid of being seen, as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk (which he always does with precipitation) unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in...
Page 394 - All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs...