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Pagina 9
It would be very distasteful to me , and I think also very wrong , if I were to allow your impending re- tirement from Oxford - after a career of such pro- longed service and so great distinction - to take place without a few lines of ...
It would be very distasteful to me , and I think also very wrong , if I were to allow your impending re- tirement from Oxford - after a career of such pro- longed service and so great distinction - to take place without a few lines of ...
Pagina 15
the school , and the Sixth Form . keen all his life . was also a prominent member of His attachment to Rugby remained He was especially pleased in his later years when he was allowed to have a table made out of the wood of one of the ...
the school , and the Sixth Form . keen all his life . was also a prominent member of His attachment to Rugby remained He was especially pleased in his later years when he was allowed to have a table made out of the wood of one of the ...
Pagina 25
He held it to be a strange departure from English justice and generosity ' , that the law should allow strikers to prevent poor men from working ' . It is astounding , he wrote , ' how little legal protection and what scant sympathy has ...
He held it to be a strange departure from English justice and generosity ' , that the law should allow strikers to prevent poor men from working ' . It is astounding , he wrote , ' how little legal protection and what scant sympathy has ...
Pagina 35
The latter I have read with entire sympathy and , if ' you will allow me to say so , with admiration for its clearness and its courage . I say courage " , because in the present ' state of opinion on such subjects a man may think twice ...
The latter I have read with entire sympathy and , if ' you will allow me to say so , with admiration for its clearness and its courage . I say courage " , because in the present ' state of opinion on such subjects a man may think twice ...
Pagina 39
So far from requiring a further statute to allow , it would require a special disabling statute to prevent him . 6 6 Moreover , his own letter is a proof that he does not think it wrong to admit them . Personally , ' he says , ' I do ...
So far from requiring a further statute to allow , it would require a special disabling statute to prevent him . 6 6 Moreover , his own letter is a proof that he does not think it wrong to admit them . Personally , ' he says , ' I do ...
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Pagina 134 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1.
Pagina 189 - We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Pagina 254 - THE views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
Pagina 279 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Pagina 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Pagina 279 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 274 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Pagina 208 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Pagina 279 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 121 - ... historical or philosophical. There is a narrow professional spirit which may grow up among men of science, just as it does among men who practise any other special business. But surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922 |
| Auteur | Thomas Case |
| Redacteur | Robert Balmain Mowat |
| Uitgever | private circulation, 1927 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 28 dec 2007 |
| Lengte | 284 pagina's |
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