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... important subject that is to occupy our attention this evening , I cannot help pausing for one moment to congratulate the President and Council of this Institute on the fact that , by opening their winter session with a paper on India ...
... important subject that is to occupy our attention this evening , I cannot help pausing for one moment to congratulate the President and Council of this Institute on the fact that , by opening their winter session with a paper on India ...
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... important that you should bear these facts carefully in mind . Let us now inquire whether the financial position is such that , with those vast numbers before us , we can pay for the famines as they arise . Now I have no hesitation in ...
... important that you should bear these facts carefully in mind . Let us now inquire whether the financial position is such that , with those vast numbers before us , we can pay for the famines as they arise . Now I have no hesitation in ...
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... importance to what I say , you will believe that when the Indian saying , " Every man should dig a well and plant a tree before he dies , " passed into a proverb , it is sufficient evidence as to the wants most felt by the people . The ...
... importance to what I say , you will believe that when the Indian saying , " Every man should dig a well and plant a tree before he dies , " passed into a proverb , it is sufficient evidence as to the wants most felt by the people . The ...
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... importance - forests and tree - planting . Here the State can greatly aid the farmer in main- taining the fertility of the soil . To anyone who has tilled the soil , and so practically experienced all the difficulties and wants of the ...
... importance - forests and tree - planting . Here the State can greatly aid the farmer in main- taining the fertility of the soil . To anyone who has tilled the soil , and so practically experienced all the difficulties and wants of the ...
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... important subject . I have said that forests might not increase the rainfall in India , because I have no means of proving that they will do so . But experience elsewhere makes it highly probable that they will do so , not by bringing ...
... important subject . I have said that forests might not increase the rainfall in India , because I have no means of proving that they will do so . But experience elsewhere makes it highly probable that they will do so , not by bringing ...
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acres agricultural amongst amount Angora Angora goat Athenæum Club Australian Colonies British possessions Canada Canadian Canadian Pacific Railway canal Cape Colony Cape Town capital Captain Chinamen Chinese civilisation Club coast colonists considerable cultivation districts Duke of Manchester emigration Empire England English European exports famine favour foreign countries Frederick Young goats gold-fields Government harbour hear HENRY hope immigration Imperial important increase India Institute interest island Jamaica James John Kafir labour lady Lake land large number Lord Lord Salisbury Macalister manufactures meeting Melbourne Messrs miles millions Miss Molineux mother-country Natal natives Naval Pacific paper population Port present President produce province Queensland question railway Ramiseram raw material regard remarks revenue River road Royal Sir Julius Vogel South Africa South Australia South Wales Street Sydney territory textile tion Town trade Transvaal Victoria West Indies whole WILLIAM Zealand
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Seite 52 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Seite 362 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Seite 362 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities, for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their trustee, and by a military code...
Seite 172 - The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing !— But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Caesars — and to strike The loud earth breathless ! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it ! [Looking on the clock.
Seite 48 - But, on the other hand, there can be no doubt that the truth which is presented in its absolute form in these discourses is presented in a specific act and in a concrete form in the Holy Communion ; and yet further that the Holy Communion is the divinely appointed means whereby men may realise the truth.
Seite 367 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England— a name which is our pride, and an example which...
Seite 247 - Mariner" — for by this time he will be quite entitled to such an appellation — knowing that water cannot run up hill feels certain his aquatic experiences are concluded. He was never more mistaken. We immediately launch him upon the...
Seite 246 - Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a mere affluent of the St. Lawrence, an affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream...
Seite 358 - ... and to bring home to their people a sense of their obligation to make sacrifices for public objects, and to share with the mother-country the burdens of military preparations. They think that the influence of the Anglo-Saxon race upon the progress and civilisation of the world will be equally beneficial, whether we live under separate governments or remain united in our allegiance to the throne of these realms. In either event, Mr. Bright once said : ' It would be the greatest pride and the highest...
Seite 399 - ... of all present when I express our admiration for the orator and for the knowledge possessed by the statesman. (Hear, hear.) In the discussion which followed we had also much that was suggestive ; and though I do not pretend for one moment to follow Sir Richard Temple through his most able address, there are one or two remarks which I should like to make.