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... question ( and at one time it was the mystery ) ; the amount per capita , that is , the amount collected or yield , is very small , whereas the rates are higher , the incidence wider , and the personal and family allowances and ...
... question ( and at one time it was the mystery ) ; the amount per capita , that is , the amount collected or yield , is very small , whereas the rates are higher , the incidence wider , and the personal and family allowances and ...
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... question of Germany's admission to the League rose without having reached an agreement . The Assembly admitted with regret ' that the difficulties so far encountered have not permitted the attain- ment of the result for which it was ...
... question of Germany's admission to the League rose without having reached an agreement . The Assembly admitted with regret ' that the difficulties so far encountered have not permitted the attain- ment of the result for which it was ...
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... question or been misled by his account of European affairs . If we try to analyse without prejudice the conditions which led up to the deadlock at Geneva , we shall find that it was due more to a series of unfortunate circumstances than ...
... question or been misled by his account of European affairs . If we try to analyse without prejudice the conditions which led up to the deadlock at Geneva , we shall find that it was due more to a series of unfortunate circumstances than ...
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... question , we must not ask or expect too much at once . Disarmament must be a gradual process . Any other course would be extremely unwise as long as the conditions in Eastern Europe remain unsettled . It is true that France must show ...
... question , we must not ask or expect too much at once . Disarmament must be a gradual process . Any other course would be extremely unwise as long as the conditions in Eastern Europe remain unsettled . It is true that France must show ...
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... question of harbour facilities in 1923 , have the matter in hand , as the con- sulting engineers to the Colonial Office . When their proposals and specifications are completed , the Colonial Office and the Palestine Administration will ...
... question of harbour facilities in 1923 , have the matter in hand , as the con- sulting engineers to the Colonial Office . When their proposals and specifications are completed , the Colonial Office and the Palestine Administration will ...
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Page 247 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine...
Page 246 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
Page 638 - Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; Hae tibi erunt artes , pacisque imponere morem , Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
Page 129 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Page 241 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination — What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 236 - Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...
Page 794 - WHEREAS it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein...
Page 814 - O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, 'You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none — And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one."* "I like the Walrus best," said Alice: "because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.
Page 638 - Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 814 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.