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... report upon the condition of the islands . This body condemned the Harrison régime in the most whole- hearted manner , declared that the Filipinization of the admini- stration had resulted in an orgy of corruption and inefficiency , and ...
... report upon the condition of the islands . This body condemned the Harrison régime in the most whole- hearted manner , declared that the Filipinization of the admini- stration had resulted in an orgy of corruption and inefficiency , and ...
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... Report . Where Washington has blundered is in acting as if the tap of autonomy can be turned off and on at will , and the lesson that it cannot is proving rather an unpleasant one . There are , however , signs that more interest is ...
... Report . Where Washington has blundered is in acting as if the tap of autonomy can be turned off and on at will , and the lesson that it cannot is proving rather an unpleasant one . There are , however , signs that more interest is ...
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... report , struck a note of warning by estimating the white and native populations half a century hence , on the basis of the present rate of growth ; but though he probably over - estimated the native increase , the situation will ...
... report , struck a note of warning by estimating the white and native populations half a century hence , on the basis of the present rate of growth ; but though he probably over - estimated the native increase , the situation will ...
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... report of their proceedings , a report which deserves to be considered very carefully , for it is a milestone , marking - as all milestones do- definite progress away from one position , while indicating how much ground remains to be ...
... report of their proceedings , a report which deserves to be considered very carefully , for it is a milestone , marking - as all milestones do- definite progress away from one position , while indicating how much ground remains to be ...
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... Report says : " There are , too ( in East Africa ) , a soil and climate which may easily produce enough to give the raw material , and the markets necessary , to relieve and raise some part of the unemployed millions which constitute ...
... Report says : " There are , too ( in East Africa ) , a soil and climate which may easily produce enough to give the raw material , and the markets necessary , to relieve and raise some part of the unemployed millions which constitute ...
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Página 225 - BOOK The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. The Book of 1662 with Permissive Additions and Deviations approved in 1927.
Página 1 - which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from potentate to potentate as if they were property.
Página 3 - to-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Página 246 - never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxims that govern your own life, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon
Página 347 - The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilisation to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point ? Is not every civilisation bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses ? The
Página 273 - Thin, thin, the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts—marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams.
Página 110 - are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one : style is a thinking out into language. . . . When we can separate light and illumination, life and motion, the convex and the concave of a curve, then will it be possible for thought to tread speech under foot, and
Página 293 - a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant rings outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders.
Página 223 - that it was no part of the policy of His Majesty's government in Great Britain that questions affecting judicial appeals should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the wishes of the part of the empire primarily affected.
Página 174 - it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral.