The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 149A. Constable, 1879 |
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... remarkable illustrations of the fallibility of human judgment and intellectual foresight . Every one of the chief calculations and anticipations made by scien- tific authorities a quarter of a century ago , and even up to a later date ...
... remarkable illustrations of the fallibility of human judgment and intellectual foresight . Every one of the chief calculations and anticipations made by scien- tific authorities a quarter of a century ago , and even up to a later date ...
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... remarkable as its growth , Then came the second stage of gold - seeking . The workers betook themselves to quartz - mining . No longer operating upon the auriferous quartz which had been disintegrated and scattered broadcast in the form ...
... remarkable as its growth , Then came the second stage of gold - seeking . The workers betook themselves to quartz - mining . No longer operating upon the auriferous quartz which had been disintegrated and scattered broadcast in the form ...
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... remarkable change and vicissitudes in the relative supply of gold and silver . During the twenty - seven years ending with 1875 , the produce of the gold - mines ( both old and new ) was 616 millions sterling , and of the silver - mines ...
... remarkable change and vicissitudes in the relative supply of gold and silver . During the twenty - seven years ending with 1875 , the produce of the gold - mines ( both old and new ) was 616 millions sterling , and of the silver - mines ...
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... remarkable fact that although 670 millions sterling of gold ( about 430 millions in excess of the produce of the old mines ) have been poured into the world within the last thirty years , the world's require- ment for gold has been ...
... remarkable fact that although 670 millions sterling of gold ( about 430 millions in excess of the produce of the old mines ) have been poured into the world within the last thirty years , the world's require- ment for gold has been ...
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... remarkable fact , and it is still more remarkable that the significance of this fact remained entirely unobserved . It showed in the most striking manner that since the beginning of the century some new and potent influence was at work ...
... remarkable fact , and it is still more remarkable that the significance of this fact remained entirely unobserved . It showed in the most striking manner that since the beginning of the century some new and potent influence was at work ...
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Página 157 - Italian Friar and second Machiavel, his Advice to the King ' of Spain for attaining the universal Monarchy of the World.
Página 530 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 472 - I should like to have been able to see their faces, and to hear their observations to each other, at the time. This occurrence at home will, one would hope, teach the loyal a little caution in speaking of the means which Napoleon employs (or rather, which they say he employs) in order to get together and to discipline his conscripts.
Página 534 - Cox (GV)— RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. By G. V. Cox, MA, New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 190 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 1 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Página 460 - Tub,' which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.
Página 504 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Página 474 - Cobbett was at the height of his political reputation ; but of politics we heard little, and should, I think, have heard nothing, but for an occasional red-hot patriot, who would introduce the subject, which our host would fain put aside, and got rid of as speedily as possible.
Página 106 - THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.