The Review of Reviews, Volume 36William Thomas Stead Office of the Review of Reviews, 1907 |
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... living , has been stricken with paralysis . When Italian wines were prohibited and the import of Spanish wines heavily taxed , the wine- growers of the Midi thought that , being assured of a monopoly of the home market , they should ...
... living , has been stricken with paralysis . When Italian wines were prohibited and the import of Spanish wines heavily taxed , the wine- growers of the Midi thought that , being assured of a monopoly of the home market , they should ...
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... living statues . The worst living statue ever exhibited is decency itself compared with the exhibition of erotic passion presented in the first act of " Tannhäuser " as it was played in Munich according to the stage directions of Wagner ...
... living statues . The worst living statue ever exhibited is decency itself compared with the exhibition of erotic passion presented in the first act of " Tannhäuser " as it was played in Munich according to the stage directions of Wagner ...
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... living creatures which destroy the telegraph poles and cables . bears , in Maine , have been known to climb up the posts and break off the insulators , presumably think- ing them something eatable . A Norwegian wood- pecker , hearing ...
... living creatures which destroy the telegraph poles and cables . bears , in Maine , have been known to climb up the posts and break off the insulators , presumably think- ing them something eatable . A Norwegian wood- pecker , hearing ...
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... living in them , and never ceasing to notice the changes that are con- stantly passing over them , the effects that are good and those that are bad , the shadows that come in the wrong places and the superfluity of high lights , that ...
... living in them , and never ceasing to notice the changes that are con- stantly passing over them , the effects that are good and those that are bad , the shadows that come in the wrong places and the superfluity of high lights , that ...
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... living Japanese , the impressions derived by General Booth from their abstemious habits , and the American craze for the simple life , are indications that sooner or later our standard of diet may have to be reduced ; if not voluntarily ...
... living Japanese , the impressions derived by General Booth from their abstemious habits , and the American craze for the simple life , are indications that sooner or later our standard of diet may have to be reduced ; if not voluntarily ...
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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?