Alfred Spalding Harvey, 1840-1905: Contributions to Magazines, Speeches, EtcFor private circulation, 1907 - 527 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
amount annual annuities Bank of England banker bills borrowed bullion capital cent charge charity circulation Civil List coal coin Commissioners considerable Consolidated Fund course creditor Crown lands deposits districts duties Elberfeld system endeavour endowments Exchequer expenditure extent fact Ginx gold Government granted hand House of Commons income increased instance issue king king's labour large number latter loans London London clay Lord ment merchant millions mode monarch Moreover National Debt never notes Office once operation paid paper parish Parliament passed payment pensions poor poor-law practical present principle profits Prussia question rate of interest received red crag relief repayment result revenue royal Sinking Fund South Sea Company sovereign supply Sutton tallies taxes tion trade truck truck system usury wages whole workhouse
Pasajes populares
Página 110 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 320 - That the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Página 50 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Página 385 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 50 - By this wise provision [of the Creator], namely of making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 97 - Pitt, coming down in state, under the future regency, to the house, preceded by the lord steward, the lord chamberlain, and the master of the horse...
Página 184 - ... and rents of the debtor, until they shall be satisfied for the debt which they paid for him, unless the principal debtor can show himself acquitted thereof against the said sureties.
Página 97 - WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd back with me, The forward-flowing tide of time ; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens green and old ; True Mussulman was I and sworn, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Página 48 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.