Pamphleteer: Dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament, to be Continued Occasionally, Volume 29Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1828 |
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... average £ 5000 per annum . Now , out of the number of prisoners tried for felony , nearly one - half are under age ; and supposing that two - thirds of such number were proceeded against in a summary manner , it follows that the ex ...
... average £ 5000 per annum . Now , out of the number of prisoners tried for felony , nearly one - half are under age ; and supposing that two - thirds of such number were proceeded against in a summary manner , it follows that the ex ...
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... average price might be at the time , could not , according to this amendment , be liberated for home consumption , even on paying the duty , till the average price amounted to 66s . per quarter . ' During the discussions on this bill in ...
... average price might be at the time , could not , according to this amendment , be liberated for home consumption , even on paying the duty , till the average price amounted to 66s . per quarter . ' During the discussions on this bill in ...
Page 117
... average price of wheat , made up and published in manner required by law , shall be 62s . and under 63s . the quar- ter , the duty shall be for every quarter £ 1 : 0 : 8 . " And in respect of every integral shilling by which such price ...
... average price of wheat , made up and published in manner required by law , shall be 62s . and under 63s . the quar- ter , the duty shall be for every quarter £ 1 : 0 : 8 . " And in respect of every integral shilling by which such price ...
Page 119
... average of 600,000 quarters ; and while he deprecated the idea of driving the poor land of this country out of cultivation , was of opinion , that this could not happen to any land then cultivated with advantage , were even the small ...
... average of 600,000 quarters ; and while he deprecated the idea of driving the poor land of this country out of cultivation , was of opinion , that this could not happen to any land then cultivated with advantage , were even the small ...
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... average of the last three years , about thirty - five millions in declared , or real value . Mr. Whitmore's estimate of an , annual importation of 600,000 quarters of wheat costing £ 720,000 . would , under this more correct view of the ...
... average of the last three years , about thirty - five millions in declared , or real value . Mr. Whitmore's estimate of an , annual importation of 600,000 quarters of wheat costing £ 720,000 . would , under this more correct view of the ...
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Page 98 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 521 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 511 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 507 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 509 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 506 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the...
Page 520 - O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not deprav'd from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 101 - ... let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution, however minute the instance may appear, to pass by, without a determined, persevering resistance. One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate, and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, to,day is doctrine.
Page 510 - ... or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 99 - King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Larceny and 30 other Offences connected therewith...