The Review of Reviews, Volume 36William Thomas Stead Office of the Review of Reviews, 1907 |
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... describes an attractive figure , the charm of which is increased by the gracious- ness of his manner and the gaiety of his disposition , while a love of practical joking is very often indulged at the expense of his most conservative ...
... describes an attractive figure , the charm of which is increased by the gracious- ness of his manner and the gaiety of his disposition , while a love of practical joking is very often indulged at the expense of his most conservative ...
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... describes how a bitter feud between two schools was ended . The boys serious used to pelt each other with stones , and many injuries were inflicted . But one happy day it occurred to one school to substitute apples for stones , and from ...
... describes how a bitter feud between two schools was ended . The boys serious used to pelt each other with stones , and many injuries were inflicted . But one happy day it occurred to one school to substitute apples for stones , and from ...
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... describes Catalonianism as a symptom of the general malaise of Spain , and if Catalonia suffers more from it than the rest of Spain it is because Catalonia is more advanced than the other provinces from the double points of view of ...
... describes Catalonianism as a symptom of the general malaise of Spain , and if Catalonia suffers more from it than the rest of Spain it is because Catalonia is more advanced than the other provinces from the double points of view of ...
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... describes the con- dition of the negro in Southern city life . It is not a pleasant picture that he draws of white tyranny . For example , a white man and negro woman who had lived together as man and wife for many years and had ...
... describes the con- dition of the negro in Southern city life . It is not a pleasant picture that he draws of white tyranny . For example , a white man and negro woman who had lived together as man and wife for many years and had ...
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... describes , in McClure's Magazine for June , his preparations for reaching the North Pole this year by air - ship . The attack on the North Pole by sledge has failed . Something always happens to frustrate even the best - laid plans ...
... describes , in McClure's Magazine for June , his preparations for reaching the North Pole this year by air - ship . The attack on the North Pole by sledge has failed . Something always happens to frustrate even the best - laid plans ...
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Page 386 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth, and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala ! and all at once is said.
Page 9 - That, in order to give effect to the will of the people as expressed by their elected representatives, it is necessary that the power of the other House to alter or reject bills passed by this House should be so restricted by law as to secure that within the limits of a single Parliament the final decision of the Commons shall prevail...
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Page 97 - A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer, to no philosopher, to no preacher, until the demand of the Nationalist is granted. It will attend to no business, however vital, except the business of unification and liberation.
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Page 152 - There stood the surgeons, their sleeves rolled up to the elbows, their bare arms as well as their linen aprons smeared with blood, their knives not seldom held between their teeth, while they were helping a patient on or off...
Page 126 - Have ye founded your thrones and altars, then, On the bodies and souls of living men ? And think ye that building shall endure, Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?