The Foundations of Japan - Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As - A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott
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[16] Most of the really big men of Australia have left political life in comparatively impoverished circumstances. Not only did Sir Henry Parkes die poor. Sir George Reid took the High Commissionership in London; Sir Graham Berry was provided with a small annuity; Sir George Dibbs was made the manager of a State savings bank; Sir Edmund Barton was lifted to the High Court Bench.--_Times_, January 11, 1921. To the last day of his life, executions were levied in his house.--Rosebery on Pitt. [17] For his figures see Appendix I. CHAPTER III EARLY-RISING SOCIETIES AND OTHER INGENUOUS ACTIVITIES I should be heartily sorry if there were no signs of partiality. On the other hand, there is, I trust, no importunate advocacy or tedious assentation.--MORLEY "The alarum clocks for waking us at four o'clock in the summer and five in the winter"--it was the chairman of a village Early-Rising Society who was speaking to me--are placed at the houses of the |
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