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Σελίδα 21 - These diminutive observations seem to take away something from the dignity of writing, and therefore are never communicated but with hesitation and a little fear of abasement and contempt But it must be remembered, that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments...
Σελίδα 21 - The manners of a people are not to be found in the schools of learning, or the palaces of greatness, where the national character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the gay, or the banquets of the rich. The great mass of 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...
Σελίδα 57 - OF THE COMMA. The Comma usually separates those parts of a sentence which, though very closely connected in sense and construction, require a pause between them.
Σελίδα 15 - Present : — The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS, there was this day read at the Board, a Memorial from the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 1st of February, lt>6'9, in the words following, viz.
Σελίδα 8 - Candidates who have served as pupil teachers or schoolmasters in schools under inspection by the Committee of Council on Education, England, or by the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland, will be reported specially to those department...
Σελίδα 25 - It has been usual for all governments, during an actual rebellion, to proclaim martial law, or the suspension of civil jurisdiction. And this anomaly, I must admit...
Σελίδα 52 - ... 6. The gross receipts of a railway company in a certain year are apportioned as follows : — 41 per cent, to pay the working expenses, 56 per cent, to give the shareholders a dividend at the rate...
Σελίδα 25 - But it is of high importance to watch with extreme jealousy the disposition, towards which most governments are prone, to introduce too soon, to extend too far, to retain too long, so perilous a remedy. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the court of the constable and marshal, whose jurisdiction was considered as of a military nature, and whose proceedings were not according to the course of the common law, sometimes tried offenders by what was called martial law, but only, I believe, either...
Σελίδα 25 - There may indeed be times of pressing danger, when the conservation of all demands the sacrifice of the legal rights of a few ; there may be circumstances that not only justify, but compel, the temporary abandonment of constitutional forms. It has been usual for all governments, during an actual rebellion, to proclaim martial law, or the suspension of civil jurisdiction.
Σελίδα 35 - Fou are particularly recommended to answer the questions in the order in which they are set ; not omitting any one unless you are unable to do it.