Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922private circulation, 1927 - 284 pagina's |
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Pagina 156
... millions , and often congratulate ourselves on its increase , but forget that a million now means much less in the way of interest . For example , the problem of rail- way directors at the present moment is how to save out of a maximum ...
... millions , and often congratulate ourselves on its increase , but forget that a million now means much less in the way of interest . For example , the problem of rail- way directors at the present moment is how to save out of a maximum ...
Pagina 158
... million wage- earners - soldiers , sailors , munition workers , women -should be managed through trade unions and by labour exchanges , each under a committee of em- ployers and trade unionists , but so that any attempt at a reduction ...
... million wage- earners - soldiers , sailors , munition workers , women -should be managed through trade unions and by labour exchanges , each under a committee of em- ployers and trade unionists , but so that any attempt at a reduction ...
Pagina 165
... millions of them , making them promises , passing isolated Acts , giving them doles , grants , pensions , appoint- ments , increasing their wages , and inducing owners to give them some share in the management without expenses , and in ...
... millions of them , making them promises , passing isolated Acts , giving them doles , grants , pensions , appoint- ments , increasing their wages , and inducing owners to give them some share in the management without expenses , and in ...
Pagina 168
... millions and has not balanced its own account for the present year . The whole programme is as follows : Export credits and loans on home con- tracts Relief works , unemployment benefit , and emigration Total • £ 51,000,000 10,000,000 ...
... millions and has not balanced its own account for the present year . The whole programme is as follows : Export credits and loans on home con- tracts Relief works , unemployment benefit , and emigration Total • £ 51,000,000 10,000,000 ...
Pagina 171
... millions of the poorest of the country , who had suffered under conditions of social and economic robbery which had deprived them of the ordinary necessities of life ' . This frank explanation could only mean that the ' national well ...
... millions of the poorest of the country , who had suffered under conditions of social and economic robbery which had deprived them of the ordinary necessities of life ' . This frank explanation could only mean that the ' national well ...
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Pagina 136 - 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 191 - 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 256 - 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 281 - 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 281 - 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 276 - 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 210 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Pagina 281 - ... 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 123 - ... 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...