Some closeness of the northern fibre, the slow rising of the northern ...
Some closeness of the northern fibre, the slow rising of the northern sap, keeps the years and the decades tight to each other.
But the sap is rising: silently, inevitably the tissue is transformed.
It may well be thought that if England had been visited by such a calamity as befell Europe in 1848, America in 1861, or France in 1870, the urgency of reconstruction would have drawn the new conceptions into a new and revolutionary configuration which would have shaped new institutions to match.
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One might even deduce the Statute of Westminster from the principles laid ...
One might even deduce the Statute of Westminster from the principles laid down in 1214. The phrase was Duke's, then a Republican, and first used as the title of his
In the spring of 1866 a catastrophe far beyond the mercantile panics ...
In the spring of 1866 a catastrophe far beyond the mercantile panics of 1847 and 1857 fell on the City.
The failure of Overend and Gurney, in its magnitude, and in its