The Twentieth Century, Volume 49Nineteenth Century and After, 1901 - English periodicals |
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... least 3,000,000 acres of land were set free from the trammels which had tied the hands of agricultural reformers , and a vast proportion of these acres were in one way or another thrown upon the market . The inevitable result followed ...
... least 3,000,000 acres of land were set free from the trammels which had tied the hands of agricultural reformers , and a vast proportion of these acres were in one way or another thrown upon the market . The inevitable result followed ...
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... least , grew up in absolute heathenism . People may tell all sorts of queer stories about sporting parsons and pluralities and absenteeism . But it is no more than the truth that , if it had not been for the country clergy and their ...
... least , grew up in absolute heathenism . People may tell all sorts of queer stories about sporting parsons and pluralities and absenteeism . But it is no more than the truth that , if it had not been for the country clergy and their ...
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... least of our hospitals . At each of our hospitals , the higher use of the analysis rendered possible by clinical laboratories of the kind on which I am dwelling means a whole series of inquiries , some small , some great inquiries , of ...
... least of our hospitals . At each of our hospitals , the higher use of the analysis rendered possible by clinical laboratories of the kind on which I am dwelling means a whole series of inquiries , some small , some great inquiries , of ...
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... least in respect to the amount of time and labour which it demands , is by no means the least in respect to the effects which it may have on the advancement of knowledge . And the due discharge of each of the three helps that of the ...
... least in respect to the amount of time and labour which it demands , is by no means the least in respect to the effects which it may have on the advancement of knowledge . And the due discharge of each of the three helps that of the ...
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... least to all right - minded people . A worthy pendant to it is the celebrated Hermes of Praxiteles , which gives very completely the Greek conception of a young man . The head is less ideal than the Phidian type , and is certainly ...
... least to all right - minded people . A worthy pendant to it is the celebrated Hermes of Praxiteles , which gives very completely the Greek conception of a young man . The head is less ideal than the Phidian type , and is certainly ...
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Page 266 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 8 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 589 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 629 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 589 - Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, — yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
Page 354 - The valleys stand so thick with corn, that they laugh and sing.
Page 20 - Lincoln, in behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England.
Page 622 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 87 - Articles aforesaid shall in no case occasion any obstacle to the measures which the Imperial Ottoman Government may think it necessary to take in order to insure by its own forces the defence of its other possessions situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea.
Page 95 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.