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Page 115 - ... if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 306 - ... 1. Where numberless wide-spread operations can only be evenly connected, united and coordinated in a single allextensive government system. 2. Where the operations possess an invariable routinelike character. 3. Where they are performed under the public eye, or for the service of individuals who will immediately detect and expose any failure or laxity.
Page 155 - Parliament at long last set up a committee to study the best means "of preventing the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents.
Page 230 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The Sovereign People are in a beastly state.
Page 283 - Court, shall be of the same Force and Effect in all respects as if the same had been...
Page 92 - ... to make philosophers and scholars and geniuses of various sorts : these, like poets, are born not made. Nor, as I have shown, is it the business of the educator to impress indelibly upon the mind the useful knowledge which is to guide the pupil through life. This would be " Cram " indeed. It is the purpose of education so to exercise the faculties of mind that the infinitely various experience of afterlife may be observed and reasoned upon to the best effect What is popularly condemned as " Cram...
Page 283 - Scotland, and not otherwise, in the proper name of such treasurer or trustee; and from time to time, with such consent as aforesaid, to alter and transfer such securities and funds, and to make sale thereof respectively; and...
Page 75 - ... in preparing for that examination. This tutor looks for success by carefully directing the candidate's studies into the most ' paying ' lines, and restricting them rigorously to those lines. The training given may be of an arduous, thorough character, so that the faculties of the pupil are stretched and exercised to their utmost in those lines. This would be called ' cram ' because it involves exclusive devotion to the answering of certain examination-papers. I call it ' good cram.' "
Page 79 - ... ends. The real point of the objections to examination commonly is, that the candidate learns things for the examination only, which, when it is safely passed, he forgets again as speedily as possible. Mr. Cross would teach so deliberately and thoroughly that the very facts taught could not be forgotten, but must ever after...
Page 337 - Hill inferred that, if the charge for postage were to be made proportionate to the whole expense incurred in the receipt, transit and delivery of the letter, and in the collection of its postage, it must be made uniformly the same from every post-town to every other post-town in the United Kingdom, unless it could be shown how we are to collect so small a sum as the thirty-sixth part of a penny.