The Westminster Review, Volume 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 - Literature, Modern |
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... century , is an undertaking too great for the pirate empire to achieve . Empire is a blessing or a curse according as those who wield it are just or unjust . It is a means , not an end . The last words . of the last chapter of that ...
... century , is an undertaking too great for the pirate empire to achieve . Empire is a blessing or a curse according as those who wield it are just or unjust . It is a means , not an end . The last words . of the last chapter of that ...
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... century . And , as regards the later plagues and the Wars of the Roses , Rogers says : " But I cannot discover that the wages of labour were affected by any of these occurrences of the fifteenth century , nor by those of the sixteenth ...
... century . And , as regards the later plagues and the Wars of the Roses , Rogers says : " But I cannot discover that the wages of labour were affected by any of these occurrences of the fifteenth century , nor by those of the sixteenth ...
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... century , due allowance must be made for the change in money values . Rogers was most painstaking in his investigation of this matter ; and his conclusion is that for purposes of comparison with modern standards the money values of the ...
... century , due allowance must be made for the change in money values . Rogers was most painstaking in his investigation of this matter ; and his conclusion is that for purposes of comparison with modern standards the money values of the ...
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... century later . In 1634 , we are told , the " artisan .. would have to work forty - three weeks in order to earn that which an artisan in 1495 obtained with ten weeks ' labour ; while the wages of the peasant , who got this supply by ...
... century later . In 1634 , we are told , the " artisan .. would have to work forty - three weeks in order to earn that which an artisan in 1495 obtained with ten weeks ' labour ; while the wages of the peasant , who got this supply by ...
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... centuries ago . " But in the case of the agricultural labourer the position is very different . Thorold Rogers shows us ( pages 116 and 117 ) that since the fifteenth century rents have risen twenty - fold at the expense of labour ...
... centuries ago . " But in the case of the agricultural labourer the position is very different . Thorold Rogers shows us ( pages 116 and 117 ) that since the fifteenth century rents have risen twenty - fold at the expense of labour ...
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Page 366 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 135 - ... they will not be subject, in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, other than those which are or may be imposed upon citizens of the said Republic.
Page 486 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British* Government...
Page 600 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by Her Alajesty the Queen.
Page 657 - In 1678 they again resolved, in fuller language, "that all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty in parliament, are the sole gift of the commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids or supplies ought to begin with the commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed...
Page 206 - And then, you know, my evening amusements : To draw patterns for ruffles, which I had not materials to make up ; to play Pope Joan with the curate ; to read a sermon to my aunt; or to be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase.
Page 151 - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Page 324 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 444 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Page 668 - Now the music of harmonious metrical language, the sense of difficulty overcome, and the blind association of pleasure which has been previously received from works of rhyme or metre of the same or similar construction...