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الصفحة 33
... present condition of the board and the functions they have to perform , to select for it some experienced man of business connected with the naval pro- fession , or some man distinguished in that profession . Believe me , my dear Dean ...
... present condition of the board and the functions they have to perform , to select for it some experienced man of business connected with the naval pro- fession , or some man distinguished in that profession . Believe me , my dear Dean ...
الصفحة 34
... presents ; but he steadily refused to enrich them out of the public purse merely because they were his nephews . Many Prime Minis- ters have not been so scrupulous . " And clearly one divine wishes Sir Robert Peel had not been so . The ...
... presents ; but he steadily refused to enrich them out of the public purse merely because they were his nephews . Many Prime Minis- ters have not been so scrupulous . " And clearly one divine wishes Sir Robert Peel had not been so . The ...
الصفحة 46
... present importance should have no proportion to their recently acquired riches . * No extravagant fortunes have in this century been made . by Englishmen in India ; but Lancashire has been a California . Families have been created there ...
... present importance should have no proportion to their recently acquired riches . * No extravagant fortunes have in this century been made . by Englishmen in India ; but Lancashire has been a California . Families have been created there ...
الصفحة 64
... presents as calm a face as though it had been the labori- ous production of a contemplative philosopher . " * We may differ in our estimate of the quality of these various efforts ; but no ... present 64 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
... presents as calm a face as though it had been the labori- ous production of a contemplative philosopher . " * We may differ in our estimate of the quality of these various efforts ; but no ... present 64 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
الصفحة 65
Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. - all , an enterprising intellect . In the present day this is among the rarest of gifts : the speciality of pursuits is attended with a timidity of mind . Each subject is given up to men who cultivate it ...
Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. - all , an enterprising intellect . In the present day this is among the rarest of gifts : the speciality of pursuits is attended with a timidity of mind . Each subject is given up to men who cultivate it ...
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الصفحة 380 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
الصفحة 278 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
الصفحة 106 - ... or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm...
الصفحة 40 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
الصفحة 105 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
الصفحة 299 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
الصفحة 278 - His reputation as a Professor was accordingly raised very high, and a multitude of students from a great distance resorted to the University, merely upon his account. Those branches of science which he taught became fashionable at this place, and his opinions were the chief topics of discussion in clubs and literary societies. Even the small peculiarities in his pronunciation or manner of speaking, became frequently the objects of imitation.
الصفحة 202 - His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination has often been heated and exhausted with his body, in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night; and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic Bacchanals.
الصفحة 174 - Once more thy beauty its full lustre wear ; Moved by his love, by his example taught, Soon shall thy soul, once more with virtue fraught, With kind and generous truth thy bosom warm, And thy fair mind, like thy fair person, charm. To virtue thus and to thyself restored, By all admired, by one alone adored, Be to thy Harry ever kind and true, And live for him who more than dies for you.
الصفحة 302 - I shall be accused of going too far, when I say, that he was scarcely ever known to start a new topic himself, or to appear unprepared upon those topics that were introduced by others. Indeed, his conversation was never more amusing than when he gave a loose to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines.