The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 244A. Constable, 1926 |
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... acceptance . But since the peace the tendencies have been in the contrary direction , and instead of a gradual consolidation a process of friendly disintegration has been making rapid headway . The old conception of the British Empire ...
... acceptance . But since the peace the tendencies have been in the contrary direction , and instead of a gradual consolidation a process of friendly disintegration has been making rapid headway . The old conception of the British Empire ...
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... acceptance thereof . It was open to the King Government to follow a precedent established in connection with the Treaty of Lausanne , when Mr. Mackenzie King secured exemption for Canada from its responsibilities by the simple process ...
... acceptance thereof . It was open to the King Government to follow a precedent established in connection with the Treaty of Lausanne , when Mr. Mackenzie King secured exemption for Canada from its responsibilities by the simple process ...
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... acceptance of the Locarno Treaty , and the King Govern- ment became apprehensive that , if another Dominion took this step , it would find itself in an invidious position at the projected Imperial Conference , where , according to ...
... acceptance of the Locarno Treaty , and the King Govern- ment became apprehensive that , if another Dominion took this step , it would find itself in an invidious position at the projected Imperial Conference , where , according to ...
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... accepted as an integral part of Canadian policy . In his Hamilton speech , Mr. Meighen made no mention of the Treaties of Locarno , but their existence was undoubtedly a contributing factor in his decision to launch the new policy in ...
... accepted as an integral part of Canadian policy . In his Hamilton speech , Mr. Meighen made no mention of the Treaties of Locarno , but their existence was undoubtedly a contributing factor in his decision to launch the new policy in ...
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... acceptance of its decision about criminal appeals , it was necessarily complete over the Free State . In a controversy with Mr. Swift Macneill in The Times , Lord Darling adopted a similar line of argument . These decisions and the ...
... acceptance of its decision about criminal appeals , it was necessarily complete over the Free State . In a controversy with Mr. Swift Macneill in The Times , Lord Darling adopted a similar line of argument . These decisions and the ...
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Página 123 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move...
Página 127 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Página 126 - It is six miles to the top; the road runs winding up it, commonly not six feet broad; on one hand is the rock, with woods of pine-trees hanging over head; on the other, a monstrous precipice, almost perpendicular, at the bottom of which rolls a torrent, that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have fallen from on high, and sometimes precipitating itself down vast descents with a noise like thunder, which is still made greater by the echo from the mountains on each side, concurs to...
Página 44 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Página 123 - Pleasures, Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet : To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many-twinkling feet.
Página 181 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in anything else.
Página 125 - Come, let us sing; and directly began herself: From singing we insensibly fell to dancing, and singing in...
Página 230 - With benevolent intentions he murdered Afzal Khan for the good of others. If thieves enter our house and we have not sufficient strength to drive them out, we should without hesitation shut them up and burn them alive.
Página 132 - Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Página 126 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.