Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Campbell, the American tennis champion, will start about the middle of the month for Europe where he will meet the best foreign players...
...guides the imagination in its conseptions of forms of beauty, and that the qualities of the modern school are not those fundamental ones which make the art of a nation truly great. Mr. Moore regrets that students and amateurs at home find so little help toward suitable preparation for foreign study and urges upon the would-be Parisian student a thorough mastering of that preliminary knowledge which should give them a basis of judgement as to what may be most profitably studied in Europe; for in the Parisian shool itself, one meets with few enlightening and broadening influences...
...Parnell was personally unworthy of gratitude. - (a) He was moved, not by patriotism, but by personal ambition: Nation, 1 Jan. 1891; Foreign newspapers quoted in London Times, 9 Oct. 1891. - (b) He was devoid of principle. - (1) Admitted lying; Blackwoods,' March, 1890. - (2) O'Shea case: Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (c) He betrayed the confidence. - (1) Of his associates, Gladstone and Morley: Nation, 4 Dec. 1890, pp. 431 and 434. - (2) Of thousands of Irish people who had left homes on promise of immediate aid: Nation, 1 Jan. 1891. - (3) Of his whole party by risking their success...
...disturbance of existing condition. - (a) The gold standard is better: Forum, 9, 292. - (b) Gold is the standard used in foreign trade...
...successfully started without some fostering. - (1) Offers no inducement to capital: vide II (a); (2) Profitable beet-raising in this country is still in its experimental stage: Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. - (b) It cannot be successfully started with a protective tariff; (1) A bounty paid by foreign governments to producers on their sugar-exports, tends to counteract the benefit of our tariff: S. V. White, Cong. R., 1889-90, p. 5015; (2) In the past, import duties have failed to create a flourishing sugar industry...