Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 79David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1899 - English literature |
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... position that its present application to our commercial system is faultless . There are , unquestionably , grave faults , and a few of the most obvious instances may be taken from the re- port of the Board of Trade to which reference ...
... position that its present application to our commercial system is faultless . There are , unquestionably , grave faults , and a few of the most obvious instances may be taken from the re- port of the Board of Trade to which reference ...
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... position to furnish any independent certificates of the position of the business , or of its past trading success . In many of the cases , indeed , the business was of so trivial a character that no one outside the immediate sphere of ...
... position to furnish any independent certificates of the position of the business , or of its past trading success . In many of the cases , indeed , the business was of so trivial a character that no one outside the immediate sphere of ...
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... position and capacity . It therefore behoves the legislator to proceed with caution in the amend- ment of existing errors . Something may , and no doubt will , be done in the interests both of creditors and of shareholders , in the one ...
... position and capacity . It therefore behoves the legislator to proceed with caution in the amend- ment of existing errors . Something may , and no doubt will , be done in the interests both of creditors and of shareholders , in the one ...
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... position is comfort- less , their earnings are precarious , and with that resignation and fatalism which is so characteristic a trait in the Irish nature they will say , " Shure , whatever we do we can't be worse off than we are . " In ...
... position is comfort- less , their earnings are precarious , and with that resignation and fatalism which is so characteristic a trait in the Irish nature they will say , " Shure , whatever we do we can't be worse off than we are . " In ...
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... position in life . A small farmer went into a bank in Limerick when the following conversation took place between him and the manager . yer honner ; I called about a little business , and though there's other banks in the town I thought ...
... position in life . A small farmer went into a bank in Limerick when the following conversation took place between him and the manager . yer honner ; I called about a little business , and though there's other banks in the town I thought ...
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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.