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... cause , an increased immigration into Canada , which has not wanted the stimulus of an extra 28. per quarter . Mutatis mutandis , what is true of wheat is of course true of other articles . All the articles of farming production are ...
... cause , an increased immigration into Canada , which has not wanted the stimulus of an extra 28. per quarter . Mutatis mutandis , what is true of wheat is of course true of other articles . All the articles of farming production are ...
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... cause is the immigration into new regions such as we have witnessed with similar results for many years in the Far West of the United States and in the Argentine Republic . Last of all there are several articles , such as barley , where ...
... cause is the immigration into new regions such as we have witnessed with similar results for many years in the Far West of the United States and in the Argentine Republic . Last of all there are several articles , such as barley , where ...
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... cause which has here subordinated present economic interests and given the country as a whole its enormously increased potentiality in the future under internal free trade ? The answer is that it has been the organic principle which ...
... cause which has here subordinated present economic interests and given the country as a whole its enormously increased potentiality in the future under internal free trade ? The answer is that it has been the organic principle which ...
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... cause of education , with a body of Nonconformists not less vigorous and capable than their English brethren in defence of their principles , can supply a valuable test and criticism of the Education Act . Soon after the passing of the ...
... cause of education , with a body of Nonconformists not less vigorous and capable than their English brethren in defence of their principles , can supply a valuable test and criticism of the Education Act . Soon after the passing of the ...
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... cause of the present educational strife . Strong in the belief that this difficulty can be overcome , I desire to state the problem fully and frankly . Having endeavoured to state the grievances of the Nonconformists without any desire ...
... cause of the present educational strife . Strong in the belief that this difficulty can be overcome , I desire to state the problem fully and frankly . Having endeavoured to state the grievances of the Nonconformists without any desire ...
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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.