A guide to excise candidatesLongmans, Green & Company, 1877 - 192 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 21 - ... nations is neither rich nor gay: they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken. As they approach to delicacy, a nation is refined ; as their conveniences are multiplied, a nation, at least a commercial- nation, must be denominated wealthy.
Σελίδα 20 - But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small...
Σελίδα 22 - Hence also, perhaps, arose in a great measure the vehemence with which he opposed views and notions contrary to his own. Of his moral nature, honesty and fearlessness, earnestness, and love of truth and justice, were the prominent qualities ; and though these were calculated to give an aspect...
Σελίδα 70 - BO called, we must observe in the first place, that various other faults of style may, in different cases, contribute to produce it. It may arise either from undue diffuseness, or excessive brevity. It may be occasioned by extreme complexity in the construction of a sentence, or by simple impurity of diction. It is very often the result of an improper collocation of words or clauses. Poverty of Vocabulary, in a word, is one of the most common, as it is one of the most serious defects exhibited by...
Σελίδα 117 - Europe either flow towards the SE or NW The principal rivers are : The Ural and Volga flowing into the Caspian " Sea, the Don into the Sea of Azov, the Dnieper, Dniester, and Danube, into the Black Sea...
Σελίδα 58 - A ditch is being dug at the rate of 8 1 feet per day by 54 men ; after 13 days' work 8 of them are replaced by boys, and the work goes on for 11 days more, at the end of which the whole length dug is 1889 feet; how much work per day do the boys do ? 6.
Σελίδα 23 - Kings love to display the divinity with which their flatterers invest them in nothing so much as in the instantaneous execution of their will, and to stand revealed, as it were, in the storm and thunderbolt when their power breaks through the operation of secondary causes and awes a prostrate nation without the intervention of law.
Σελίδα 123 - E. and 6° 13' W., and is the largest island in Europe. It is bounded on the N. by the Atlantic, on the E. by the North Sea, on the S. by the English Channel, and on the W. by the Atlantic, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. The most northerly point is...
Σελίδα 88 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Σελίδα 58 - A man invests £1,638 in the 3 per cents, at 91, and sells £1,600 stock when they have risen to 93£, and the remainder when they have fallen to 85 ; how much does he gain or lose by the transaction ? 7.