Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 79David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1899 - English literature |
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... Government securities at two and a half per cent . , must occasionally have his fling in the shares of companies that offer returns of fifty to a hundred per cent . When men had not stocks and shares to gamble in , they gambled in tulip ...
... Government securities at two and a half per cent . , must occasionally have his fling in the shares of companies that offer returns of fifty to a hundred per cent . When men had not stocks and shares to gamble in , they gambled in tulip ...
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... Government took over Sierra Leone , as an established settle- ment , from its humanitarian founders ; 1 In 1702 , at Abertarf , near Fort Augus- tus ; there were some schools in the Border towns . See Chambers's DOMESTIC ANNALS OF ...
... Government took over Sierra Leone , as an established settle- ment , from its humanitarian founders ; 1 In 1702 , at Abertarf , near Fort Augus- tus ; there were some schools in the Border towns . See Chambers's DOMESTIC ANNALS OF ...
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... government or knowledge of agri- culture , but not without marriage apparently . They have only one wife , a fact , if it be true , of the utmost importance to those interested in the primitive condition of mankind . For it must be ...
... government or knowledge of agri- culture , but not without marriage apparently . They have only one wife , a fact , if it be true , of the utmost importance to those interested in the primitive condition of mankind . For it must be ...
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... government , " he writes , " is that it shall be the expression of the sentiments and ideas of the people it is called on to govern , and by the mere fact that it exists it is the image of the people . There are no governments or ...
... government , " he writes , " is that it shall be the expression of the sentiments and ideas of the people it is called on to govern , and by the mere fact that it exists it is the image of the people . There are no governments or ...
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... government , and the word ambitious , which the Russian seems habitually to use as a reproach , is in reality the mark of fitness . apply to a community where the governing instinct is common and traditional , and where the charm of ...
... government , and the word ambitious , which the Russian seems habitually to use as a reproach , is in reality the mark of fitness . apply to a community where the governing instinct is common and traditional , and where the charm of ...
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Page 8 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 155 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 158 - twas in a crowd — and I thought he would shun me ; He came — I could not breathe, for his eye was upon me ; He spoke — his words were cold, and his smile was unaltered ; I knew how much he felt, for his deep-toned voice falter'd.
Page 131 - He had no desire to make any dramatic entry, but an accident of the sunset ordered it that when he had taken off his helmet to get the evening breeze, the low light should fall across his forehead, and he could not see what was before him; while one waiting at the tent door beheld with new eyes a young man, beautiful as Paris, a god in a halo of golden dust, walking slowly at the head of his flocks, while at his knee ran small naked Cupids.
Page 360 - The King of Great Britain cedes the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, in full right, to his most Christian Majesty, to serve as a shelter to the French fishermen : and his said most Christian Majesty engages not to fortify the said islands ; to erect no buildings upon them, but merely for the convenience of the fishery ; and to keep upon them a guard of fifty men only for the police.
Page 341 - I do further declare that neither hopes, fears, rewards or punishments, shall ever induce me directly or indirectly, to inform on, or give evidence against any member or members of this or similar societies, for any act or expression of theirs, done or made collectively or individually, in or out of this society, in pursuance of the spirit of this obligation.