Norwegian Trade Review ..., Edição 4

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W.C. Fabritius & Sønner, 1926

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Página viii - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página iii - NORWAY HAIL, Norway! land of strong men and free women, I greet thee! Thy mountains stand beneath the eyes of heaven like lofty temples of Peace. What joy throbbed in my heart when thy fjords sent a speechless welcome out to me, when first I saw thy lamp-starred hills of night from the perilous Northern main! Under thy robe of spotless snow thy heart is warm with love, and' thy skies — blue as the pigeon's neck — ring with the music of gladness, O sweet winterhome of the world!
Página iii - Land of smooth-waved fjords, of sweet-breath'd mountains, of full-voiced waterfalls! Land of majestic Northern Light! Arctic-blessed land! Land of long winter months, of fleeting spring, and long, long days of short-lived summer! Land where the winter sun hugs the horizon to his breast; land where the summer sun, unsetting, riots through the night! O Motherland of Wergeland and...
Página iii - Hail! Norway O Motherland of Wergeland and Vinje, of Ibsen, Bjornson, Abel, Birkeland, I walk among thy towns and villages, thy hills and valleys, as thy friend; and over thy holy name, O Norway, I have built a perfumed rainbow-arch of love, whose one foot rests on Glittertind and one on Gaurisankar's peaceillumined height ! — Sri Ananda Acharya...
Página 72 - Up to a short time ago, the reindeer occurred over practically the whole of the ice-free parts of Spitsbergen, and it has undoubtedly been far more numerous in earlier times than now. First the Dutch and the English, and later on the Russians and Norwegians, hunted reindeer in Spitsbergen.
Página 72 - The number of reindeer still left in the remote parts of these islands Is believed to be sufficient for the renewal of the stock by immigration throughout the archipelago.
Página 72 - ... confined to Spitsbergen, is an open question. Since this paper was written Norway has assumed sovereignty over Svalbard (Spitsbergen and Bear Island), thus establishing law and right in these islands. This took place on August 14th, 1925, and the first administrative step taken by the Norwegian Government was to prohibit the killing of reindeer for a period of ten years', in conformity with the above-mentioned proposal submitted by HoEL2. And this step was taken none too soon, as is evidenced...
Página 55 - Now there are other countries that carry on large cod fisheries, but none of these have so far been able to work up an output of medicinal cod-liver oil equal to that of Norway.
Página viii - Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

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