The Twentieth Century, Volume 99Nineteenth Century and After, 1926 - English periodicals |
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... opinion are too apt to forget the enthusiasm for arts colleges and the apathy regarding , and even opposition to , science and technical training which marked a previous generation . The fact was also overlooked that the multiplication ...
... opinion are too apt to forget the enthusiasm for arts colleges and the apathy regarding , and even opposition to , science and technical training which marked a previous generation . The fact was also overlooked that the multiplication ...
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... opinion , groundless . By all means let India develop her industries , but she can never become an industrial country as the term is understood in the West . If anyone takes the trouble to look at a map of India and to mark on it the ...
... opinion , groundless . By all means let India develop her industries , but she can never become an industrial country as the term is understood in the West . If anyone takes the trouble to look at a map of India and to mark on it the ...
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... opinion of the Buddhists , has , by abolishing her monarchy , entered a state of anarchic decay which will sooner or later result in a disaster and lead China into eternal slavery . China , torn into separate parts ruthlessly spoiled by ...
... opinion of the Buddhists , has , by abolishing her monarchy , entered a state of anarchic decay which will sooner or later result in a disaster and lead China into eternal slavery . China , torn into separate parts ruthlessly spoiled by ...
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... opinion in Europe , and this opinion Japan herself is wont to maintain and to en- courage . Her attitude during the Boxer War was characteristic . The Japanese staff placed their troops deliberately in close proximity to European ...
... opinion in Europe , and this opinion Japan herself is wont to maintain and to en- courage . Her attitude during the Boxer War was characteristic . The Japanese staff placed their troops deliberately in close proximity to European ...
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... opinion on foreign policy will be by beginning with certain nega- tive conclusions . In the first place , it may be confidently said that Finland is not afraid of Soviet Russia . I went to the country with the idea , more or less ...
... opinion on foreign policy will be by beginning with certain nega- tive conclusions . In the first place , it may be confidently said that Finland is not afraid of Soviet Russia . I went to the country with the idea , more or less ...
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Page 857 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 292 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 568 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 720 - With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ear! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth — and with what motion moved the clouds!
Page 857 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 720 - Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things— With...
Page 867 - tis he : why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea : singing aloud ; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds. With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
Page 293 - Hie tamen hanc mecum poteras requiescere noctem Fronde super viridi: sunt nobis mitia poma, Castaneae molles et pressi copia lactis ; Et iam summa procul villarum culmina fumant Maioresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Page 730 - The mind of Man is fram'd even like the breath And harmony of music. There is a dark Invisible workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, and makes them move In one society. Ah me!
Page 297 - Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine 5 His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.