The Quarterly Review, Volume 235William 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, 1921 - English literature |
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... wage - earner at Kingston , Ontario , almost to the end of his working life . Mackenzie was a stonemason , who , like the parents of Macdonald , emigrated from Scotland ; and he was at work at his trade until he became actively ...
... wage - earner at Kingston , Ontario , almost to the end of his working life . Mackenzie was a stonemason , who , like the parents of Macdonald , emigrated from Scotland ; and he was at work at his trade until he became actively ...
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... wage ; One in whose sight To arm the hand of man against his brother , Spread snares and stumbling blocks For mutual injury , Not less infatuate seems than in a camp Beleaguered , pressed , at hottest of the fight , If the defenders ...
... wage ; One in whose sight To arm the hand of man against his brother , Spread snares and stumbling blocks For mutual injury , Not less infatuate seems than in a camp Beleaguered , pressed , at hottest of the fight , If the defenders ...
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... wages would be higher in the United States . Regarded as a system of taxation , it will not bear discus- sion . It strikes with blind indifference alike at implements Vol . 235.-No. 466 . G of production , and at articles of consumption ...
... wages would be higher in the United States . Regarded as a system of taxation , it will not bear discus- sion . It strikes with blind indifference alike at implements Vol . 235.-No. 466 . G of production , and at articles of consumption ...
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... wage - slave proletariat . He re- mained so far a revolutionary that he never believed the final transition could be effected by peaceful legislation : force , he declared , is the midwife of every old society when it is pregnant with a ...
... wage - slave proletariat . He re- mained so far a revolutionary that he never believed the final transition could be effected by peaceful legislation : force , he declared , is the midwife of every old society when it is pregnant with a ...
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... wages . Here is shown , more clearly than anywhere else , the break from a bourgeois democracy to a proletarian democracy . . . And it is precisely on this most obvious point , perhaps the most important so far as the problem of the ...
... wages . Here is shown , more clearly than anywhere else , the break from a bourgeois democracy to a proletarian democracy . . . And it is precisely on this most obvious point , perhaps the most important so far as the problem of the ...
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Page 273 - What, and wherein it doth exist, This light, this glory, this fair luminous mist, This beautiful and beauty-making power. Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy that ne'er was given, Save to the pure, and in their purest hour, Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady!
Page 10 - By it they understand that compensation will be made by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea, and from the air.
Page 13 - The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts the responsibility of herself and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.
Page 19 - State further accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the said Powers such provisions as they may deem necessary to protect freedom of transit and equitable treatment of the commerce of other nations.
Page 193 - Each State should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.
Page 193 - The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country.
Page 192 - ... the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury...
Page 57 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 192 - Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle In the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries ; The High Contracting Parties, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity, as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following : — i.