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Page 321 - Court, shall be of the same Force and Effect in all respects as if the same had been...
Page 129 - ... 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 331 - EG, and the address of the sender or the number or mark of the article be stated on parcels. The samples may be sent in covers, or in boxes, bags of linen or other materials. No parcel sent by post must exceed 12 ozs.
Page 239 - Of him ye say ye love. But Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.
Page 292 - The above statement includes, I believe, all the actual working public telegraphs within the United Kingdom, except those which the London, Brighton, and South Coast, and the South Eastern Railway Companies maintain for public use upon their lines. With the value of these I am not acquainted. Omitting the Private Telegraph Company, as...
Page 106 - Name it what you like, but it is impossible to deny that it calls forth intellectual, moral, and even physical powers, which are proved by unquestionable experience to fit men for the business of life. This is what I hold to be Education. We cannot consider it the work of teachers 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...
Page 321 - 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 278 - Let it be understood that I do not for a moment suppose that there is much, if any, novelty in the proposals made above. In one place or another almost every suggestion, except, perhaps, that of a superintending Commission, has been made and discussed. The Lords' Committee have themselves recommended " that legislative facilities should be afforded for the local adoption of the Gothenburg and of Mr. Chamberlain's schemes, or of some modification of them.
Page 264 - Parliament s has had nothing to do with planning it. From the first to the last the rule of progress has been that of the ancient nursery rhyme — Try, try, try : And if at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again. To put the matter in the strongest light, let the reader consider what he would say about a proposal that Parliament should decide arbitrarily, by its own wisdom, concerning any great impending improvement : take, for instance, that of tramways and steam tramcars. It is quite conceivable...
Page 268 - 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.