The Nineteenth Century, Volume 9Henry S. King & Company, 1881 - Nineteenth century |
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... question , I am aware that I must , to a great degree , travel over ground that has been most ably dealt with by ... question whether or no they have offended against the law of conspiracy is foreign to the permanent settlement of the ...
... question , I am aware that I must , to a great degree , travel over ground that has been most ably dealt with by ... question whether or no they have offended against the law of conspiracy is foreign to the permanent settlement of the ...
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... question of the land tenure , I should pro- test against the manner in which landlords have been attacked for availing themselves of the provisions in their favour in the Land Act of 1870 ; notably so in the case of the ' Leinster ...
... question of the land tenure , I should pro- test against the manner in which landlords have been attacked for availing themselves of the provisions in their favour in the Land Act of 1870 ; notably so in the case of the ' Leinster ...
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... question is so momentous in itself , and the interests at stake are so great , that any policy of expediency would be intolerable . The Government , in their endeavours to frame a permanent settlement of the question , irrespective of ...
... question is so momentous in itself , and the interests at stake are so great , that any policy of expediency would be intolerable . The Government , in their endeavours to frame a permanent settlement of the question , irrespective of ...
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... question is one which interests the public much more than the judges . The promotion of a Puisne Judge to the position of a Chief Justice or Chief Baron has happened ( I think ) only once in the course of the last fifty years - namely ...
... question is one which interests the public much more than the judges . The promotion of a Puisne Judge to the position of a Chief Justice or Chief Baron has happened ( I think ) only once in the course of the last fifty years - namely ...
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... question is whether it is expedient that either two or four of the judges should be paid more highly than the rest , both in money and rank . The argument that this is expedient is that otherwise Attorneys - General and Solicitors ...
... question is whether it is expedient that either two or four of the judges should be paid more highly than the rest , both in money and rank . The argument that this is expedient is that otherwise Attorneys - General and Solicitors ...
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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...