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... COLONIES . By the Right Rev. Bishop Welldon ' AN EX - PRISONER ON PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS ' : A REJOINDER . 6 Robert Anderson A NATIONAL PARK FOR SCOTLAND . By Charles Stewart By Sir THE STATE REGISTRATION OF NURSES . ' By Eva C. E. ...
... COLONIES . By the Right Rev. Bishop Welldon ' AN EX - PRISONER ON PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS ' : A REJOINDER . 6 Robert Anderson A NATIONAL PARK FOR SCOTLAND . By Charles Stewart By Sir THE STATE REGISTRATION OF NURSES . ' By Eva C. E. ...
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... Colonies , and how little difference in return would result to the United King- dom from any preferences in their markets which the Colonies could give . Apart from all questions of principle , the proposals before the country , it ...
... Colonies , and how little difference in return would result to the United King- dom from any preferences in their markets which the Colonies could give . Apart from all questions of principle , the proposals before the country , it ...
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... Colonies , so that the Colonies will be great gainers , the people of the United Kingdom will be less and less dependent on foreign countries for their supply of food , and the Empire will be in the end self- sustaining . What we have ...
... Colonies , so that the Colonies will be great gainers , the people of the United Kingdom will be less and less dependent on foreign countries for their supply of food , and the Empire will be in the end self- sustaining . What we have ...
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... Colonies of any particular value in the proposed preferences , especially no immediate gain that will at all stimulate the trade of the United Kingdom . What extension of agricultural production is probable either at home or in the Colonies ...
... Colonies of any particular value in the proposed preferences , especially no immediate gain that will at all stimulate the trade of the United Kingdom . What extension of agricultural production is probable either at home or in the Colonies ...
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... Colonies , but come from foreign countries only , an unexpected effect of the preferences would be to stimulate the growth of maize and pork in foreign countries , and so diminish pro tanto the favour intended for the Colonies . It has ...
... Colonies , but come from foreign countries only , an unexpected effect of the preferences would be to stimulate the growth of maize and pork in foreign countries , and so diminish pro tanto the favour intended for the Colonies . It has ...
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Page 262 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 593 - A limbeck only; when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon...
Page 590 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 480 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 270 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 359 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 271 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 270 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 118 - ... by reason of his criminal habits and mode of life it is expedient for the protection of the public that the offender should be kept in detention for a lengthened period of years...
Page 777 - Who'll be the parson? I, said the Rook, With my little book, I'll be the parson. Who'll be the clerk? I, said the Lark, If it's not in the dark, I'll be the clerk.