The Economic Review, Volume 17Oxford University Branch of the Christian Social Union, 1907 - Christian sociology Includes section "Reviews". |
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absinthe acres Adam Smith agricultural American amount April Argentina August 31 Bales Bank of England Bournville British capital cent chief Christian Church classes colonies consumption continues Crozier cwts debt debtor December December 31 districts doctrine duty economic Effertz estimated expenditure exports fact fall February 28 figures following table foreign France Germany give gold from Bank Government houses important income tax increase India industrial interest January judgment summons labour land less London manufactures March March 31 means ment million yards months mother November November 30 old age pensions poor position practical present produce question Rambaud rate of discount RAW COTTON religious Report reserve result returns revenue rupee scheme September September 30 small holdings social societies South Africa taxation teaching tenants tion trade Treasury unemployed unions United Kingdom village wages wheat whole workers XVII.-No
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Page 1 - ... education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 372 - That the Prime Ministers of the colonies respectfully urge on His Majesty's Government the expediency of granting in the United Kingdom preferential treatment to the products and manufactures of the colonies, either by exemption from or reduction of duties now or hereafter imposed.
Page 1 - You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and b the desired impression is more readily taken.
Page 276 - It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Page 1 - And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
Page 1 - And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we wish them to have when they are grown up ? ' ' We cannot.' ' Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad ; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized...
Page 263 - Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 372 - Conference recognises that, in the present circumstances of the Colonies, it is not practicable to adopt a general system of free trade as between the Mother Country and the British dominions beyond the seas.
Page 9 - Testament begins with the myth of cosmic origins, and passes to the agricultural and pastoral stage of Cain and Abel, the heroics of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Joshua, the royalty of Saul, David, and Solomon, the legal stage of law and justice which so appeals to boys, to dawning prophecy, etc. It is all objective, strenuous, full of incident, battles, dramatic incidents, and with a large repertory of persons. There is fear, anger, jealousy...
Page 372 - Conference recognizes that the principle of Preferential Trade between the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Dominions beyond the seas would stimulate and facilitate mutual commercial intercourse, and would, by promoting the development of the resources and industries of the several parts, strengthen the Empire.