The Quarterly Review, Volumen245William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1925 |
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... population within the British Common- wealth of Nations is a condition precedent to the health of the Empire , and especially of Great Britain , its most crowded unit . Fear of over - population , however , in some of our industrial ...
... population within the British Common- wealth of Nations is a condition precedent to the health of the Empire , and especially of Great Britain , its most crowded unit . Fear of over - population , however , in some of our industrial ...
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... population . It is the opinion of those best able to judge that the un- employment of a round million of would - be workers is permanent , so long as the population keeps its present level ; whereas , of course , it is increasing ...
... population . It is the opinion of those best able to judge that the un- employment of a round million of would - be workers is permanent , so long as the population keeps its present level ; whereas , of course , it is increasing ...
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... population continuous . This can only mean that our handicap will be progressive . The unlikeli- hood of our obtaining a much greater trade is accom- panied by the certainty of our having more mouths to feed , more hands to employ . In ...
... population continuous . This can only mean that our handicap will be progressive . The unlikeli- hood of our obtaining a much greater trade is accom- panied by the certainty of our having more mouths to feed , more hands to employ . In ...
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... population . Five years ago in New South Wales a scheme was outlined and much bruited abroad under the name of the Million Farms . In regard to some of its details , the less said of the plan the better ; but at worst it suggested a ...
... population . Five years ago in New South Wales a scheme was outlined and much bruited abroad under the name of the Million Farms . In regard to some of its details , the less said of the plan the better ; but at worst it suggested a ...
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... population be set aside for the moment . The first intention , from our narrower , more insular point of view , is to provide homes and work for the workless , for that part of our population which may strictly be called superfluous ...
... population be set aside for the moment . The first intention , from our narrower , more insular point of view , is to provide homes and work for the workless , for that part of our population which may strictly be called superfluous ...
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Página 269 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Página 228 - And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can so short a line sufficient be To fathom the vast depths of Nature's sea. The work he did we ought t...
Página 225 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Página 268 - The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink, The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink, And Noah he cocked his eye and said, 'It looks like rain, I think, The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip4 mine But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
Página 235 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Página 173 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Página 66 - Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Página 222 - I am now going to tell you the horible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you can't conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Página 269 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Página 132 - Lord for counsel and guidance in this, in itself, and to me so important affair, I felt a word sweetly arise in me, as if I had heard a voice, which said,