The Quarterly Review, Volume 216William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... practically vanished . The impartiality of the Crown may be the impartiality of an equal balance- holder or the impartiality of a weathercock . So long as there is some other authority to hold the balance , the Crown may maintain that ...
... practically vanished . The impartiality of the Crown may be the impartiality of an equal balance- holder or the impartiality of a weathercock . So long as there is some other authority to hold the balance , the Crown may maintain that ...
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... Empire . After all , the Dominions them- selves are but aggregations of units which were once Crown Colonies , but have been differentiated by the acquisition of practically complete powers of self - govern- ment 56 FIJI AS A CROWN COLONY.
... Empire . After all , the Dominions them- selves are but aggregations of units which were once Crown Colonies , but have been differentiated by the acquisition of practically complete powers of self - govern- ment 56 FIJI AS A CROWN COLONY.
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... practically complete powers of self - govern- ment and almost of independence . The evolution of all the component parts of the British Empire- whether these are at this moment merely under British influence or are Protectorates , Crown ...
... practically complete powers of self - govern- ment and almost of independence . The evolution of all the component parts of the British Empire- whether these are at this moment merely under British influence or are Protectorates , Crown ...
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... practically autonomous but closely connected by ties of kinship and interest with the mother - country . In those parts of the African continent which lie out- side of South Africa many British Crown Colonies and Protectorates remain ...
... practically autonomous but closely connected by ties of kinship and interest with the mother - country . In those parts of the African continent which lie out- side of South Africa many British Crown Colonies and Protectorates remain ...
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... practically unknown to the Western nations till so lately as the close of the eighteenth century . It was only during the voyages of Captain Cook ( 1768-79 ) that the existence of Australia and New Zealand and of most of the islands of ...
... practically unknown to the Western nations till so lately as the close of the eighteenth century . It was only during the voyages of Captain Cook ( 1768-79 ) that the existence of Australia and New Zealand and of most of the islands of ...
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Page 218 - For this purpose it is not absolutely necessary that the German fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest Sea Power, because, generally, a great Sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us.
Page 417 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass...
Page 272 - ... subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear from time to time to demand. That from the period of such declaration, it shall no longer be necessary to regulate the contribution of the two countries towards the future expenditure of the united kingdom...