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Page 166 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 62 - In framing schemes under this Act, provision shall be made, as far as conveniently may be, for extending to girls the benefits of endowments.
Page 129 - That the study of the economic phenomena of society ought to be systematically combined with that of the other aspects of social existence; (2) That the excessive tendency to abstraction and to unreal simplifications should be checked; (3) That the a priori deductive method should be changed for the historical...
Page 200 - ... estate. You are very anxious to get possession of the property you have bought, and the vendor is very anxious to get his money. But do you get possession of the property ? On the contrary, you cannot get the estate, nor can the vendor get his money...
Page 199 - You buy an estate at an auction, or you enter into a contract for the purchase of the estate. You are very anxious to get possession of the property you have bought, and the vendor is very anxious to get his money. But do you get possession of the property ? On the contrary, you cannot get the estate, 1 See Transactions, 1872, p.
Page 500 - What bright refreshing spots would these be in the midst of our huge brick and stone labyrinths, if we saw them crowded on summer evenings with the tradespeople and mechanics from the neighbouring streets ; and if the poor children, who now grow up amid the filth and impurities of the alleys and courts, were allowed to run about these play-grounds, so much healthier both for the body and the mind ! We have them all ready — a word may open them.
Page 270 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 194 - Two men being indicted together, one entreated that the other might be a witness, and, finding a solitary instance in which this had been done, in which, however, his legal conscience (he must confess) did not place much confidence, all parties moreover consenting, he allowed the man to be examined; and the result was that the man convicted himself and the other who was charged with him. Some of our rules of evidence were not originally adopted as absolute maxims of irreversible law, or assertions...
Page xxiii - Subscription is payable in advance on the first day of August in each year. Officers and Government. IX. The Association has a President, Vice-Presidents, Presidents and Vice-Presidents of Departments, a President of Council, a General Secretary, a Treasurer or Treasurers, Foreign Secretary, and Secretaries of Departments, who are annually elected, and hold office until the appointments of the following year are made. X. The Association is governed by a Council, and by an Executive Committee, subject...
Page xxiv - Association, at three other times during the year, and also when specially summoned by the Executive Committee. Annual and other Meetings. XIV. An Annual Meeting for the reception of the Address of the President, and of the Reports of the Council and Standing •Committees, and for the reading and discussion of Papers, is held in such place, and at such time, as may be appointed by the Council. XV. A Business Meeting of the Members is held in each year at the office of the Association, at such time...