The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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... existence . This attitude of independence also develops a spirit of pride , a will to make good , and a determination not to be defeated , which have a stimulating effect on character . If however a subordinate is to be placed in a ...
... existence . This attitude of independence also develops a spirit of pride , a will to make good , and a determination not to be defeated , which have a stimulating effect on character . If however a subordinate is to be placed in a ...
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... existence concurrently with the new accounts , because of the reluctance to let go of control at the top and trust those lower down in the scale of command . The cost of the new work was widely proclaimed as waste , amounting , as it ...
... existence concurrently with the new accounts , because of the reluctance to let go of control at the top and trust those lower down in the scale of command . The cost of the new work was widely proclaimed as waste , amounting , as it ...
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... existence . The average Englishman probably seldom stops to think how much of the food he consumes , how many of the raw materials for the clothes he wears and for the commonest articles he uses , come from far - away lands which the ...
... existence . The average Englishman probably seldom stops to think how much of the food he consumes , how many of the raw materials for the clothes he wears and for the commonest articles he uses , come from far - away lands which the ...
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... existence of disabilities upon British Indians lawfully domiciled in some parts of the Empire " ; it added that " in the interests of the solidarity of the Common- wealth " it was desirable that their rights of citizenship should be ...
... existence of disabilities upon British Indians lawfully domiciled in some parts of the Empire " ; it added that " in the interests of the solidarity of the Common- wealth " it was desirable that their rights of citizenship should be ...
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... existence of this " ugly and ghastly " aspect . Such epithets are scarcely too strong for the social sore which has resulted from miscegenation between the white and the coloured races under the conditions that have hitherto attended it ...
... existence of this " ugly and ghastly " aspect . Such epithets are scarcely too strong for the social sore which has resulted from miscegenation between the white and the coloured races under the conditions that have hitherto attended it ...
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