The Nineteenth Century, Volume 9Henry S. King & Company, 1881 - Nineteenth century |
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... called together until the day following the Lord Mayor's banquet . On that occasion the Lord Chancellor asserted firmly that the paramount duty of Government was to provide security for life and property , and Mr. Gladstone said that ...
... called together until the day following the Lord Mayor's banquet . On that occasion the Lord Chancellor asserted firmly that the paramount duty of Government was to provide security for life and property , and Mr. Gladstone said that ...
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... called upon to pay an increased rent . I believe , too , that it will be found , on the large estates especially , that ' bonâ fide ' improvements by the tenants are the rare exceptions , and that landowners in this respect hold their ...
... called upon to pay an increased rent . I believe , too , that it will be found , on the large estates especially , that ' bonâ fide ' improvements by the tenants are the rare exceptions , and that landowners in this respect hold their ...
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... called upon to pay a sum down , in the nature of a fine , of so many years ' purchase of the rent , such calcula- tion to be the limit for the future of the sum recoverable from the landlord , in the event of his wishing to resume ...
... called upon to pay a sum down , in the nature of a fine , of so many years ' purchase of the rent , such calcula- tion to be the limit for the future of the sum recoverable from the landlord , in the event of his wishing to resume ...
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... called upon to pay up in a lump sum the whole of the unpaid balance of the rent- charge , according to the scale alluded to in Section 51 of the Land Act . I believe this would deter most from wishing to proceed further , and it is ...
... called upon to pay up in a lump sum the whole of the unpaid balance of the rent- charge , according to the scale alluded to in Section 51 of the Land Act . I believe this would deter most from wishing to proceed further , and it is ...
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... called the Queen's Bench Division , and the abolition of the offices of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer . Their report to this effect will be laid upon the table of each House of Parliament ...
... called the Queen's Bench Division , and the abolition of the offices of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer . Their report to this effect will be laid upon the table of each House of Parliament ...
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Page 103 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Page 740 - When the Priest, standing before the table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands...
Page 635 - But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Page 685 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 740 - THE blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life!
Page 635 - And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman ? And he said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him...
Page 685 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 760 - Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,- — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share...
Page 786 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 685 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...