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Page 156 - To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine.
Page 28 - I have sometimes wished that there was a department entirely devoted to training young men for the task of administration — men who would afterwards be ready to go anywhere and do anything at a moment's notice — be ready to go out and administer Uganda, for example, at a week's notice, ready to go and report anywhere on maladministration with the skill of an expert, able to investigate any subject and report upon it, not in the sense of Royal Commissions, but in a summary and a business-like...
Page 49 - Education in Germany seems to be strictly standardized. At a certain age every child, be he prince or peasant, will be in a certain class, learning certain subjects ; each year he will move a grade higher, or if he does not, the whole family will feel that some dreadful irretrievable disgrace has befallen it. The mother will...
Page 26 - The extent to which it is capable of influencing the entire internal economy is not generally appreciated, and it is probably for this reason, more than any other, that the effect of adaptive reactions upon human health is often underestimated. The brain has available to it as effector devices the "voluntary...
Page 286 - One of his characteristics is that he can explain everything to everybody ; but there is one exception — the suffragettes. He has never been able to explain them. They baffle him entirely. At first he thought they were just disappointed spinsters, but in view of the number of married women in their ranks he was obliged to abandon this idea. Since then he has been groping in vain after a satisfactory solution.
Page 49 - ... who must give two years instead of one to military service, since he has not passed the necessary examination which reduces the term by twelve months. This is one of the most terrible things which can happen to a German household.
Page 243 - Eulenburg before mentioned, a pale, grey-haired, somewhat wearylooking man with a pallid, fleeting smile, something of a visionary...
Page 265 - GrossPapa, to watch them gravely saluting each other when they meet in uniform, or to see the four small boys in white sailor-suits stooping in turn to kiss His Majesty's hand. They are on the very best of terms, for Gross-Papa has a wonderful knack of finding his way to childish hearts.
Page 83 - ... flames and rolling billows of smoke. King Edward, being very tired with his hard day's work in Berlin, had indulged in a short nap during the scene, and woke to consciousness at the moment of most intense conflagration...