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A Queen's Book

... allowed to affirm itself, to raise its head, to be independent, happy, and free nevertheless, in spite of struggles and slavery, it was not a people destined to disappear. It overcame every hardship, stood every misery, endured every subjugation, could ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Miss King's Profession

... nom-de-guerre), she very widely, at the second opportunity, burnt her boats or rather, her manuscript in favour of domestic slavery as a Rector's wife. Thus both these young heroines (Hope, of The Opening Doer, and Miss King), though the first was a wise ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Imperial America

... discuss some economic question, to suggest that the quarrel between North and South was as much over the tariff as over the slavery question, to touch upon currency questions or the trustification of American industry. But these are mere incidents breaking ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE OF THE WEEK: Some New Books: Bismarck

... Parliament unblushingly bought the votes of their constituents, and sold their own as unblushingly to the ministry. The social slavery of the labourers, kept alive, and only alive, by pauper and pauperising parish grants, was pitiless and piteous and more piteous ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 960 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

John of Jingalo

... Prince, stultified by the most ingenious devices on the part of his constitutional advisers. It makes a telling satire on the slavery of mind and action which a self-respecting people forces upon its sovereign or a gay farce flaunting the absurdities of constitu ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

The Long Roll

... the eve of her war with the North, proud of her past and proud for her future too proud of both to submit to coercion. For slavery itself she was not quarrelling. She passed her statute against it thirty years before England The bondage of the African race ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

The Long Roll

... the eve of her war with the North, proud of her past and proud for her future too proud of both to submit to coercion. For slavery itself she was not quarrelling. She passed her statute against it thirty years before England The bondage of the African race ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 605 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... worst thing he ever did was to sell himself to Louis and break up the Triple Alliance whereas Louis sold his people into a slavery of debt, and set up a new triple alhance from which it took a Napoleon and a French Revolution to deliver them. That alhance ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1067 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... own retribution with it. For example, poor little Mrs. Webster, of Mr. Webster and Others, was reduced to the wretchedest slavery under that priggish, insufferable domestic tyrant, her lord and master but she .was much the younger of the two, and could ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1126 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

SOME NEW NOVELS: The Devourers

... any socialistic theory, but because, mostly through want of courage, people mil not live their own lives. They persist in slavery to circumstances, or to the traditions of class or family, or, in general, to what other people expect of them or consider ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1910
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1405 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review