Going to Markets and Grammar Schools: Being a Series of Autobiographical Records and Sketches of Forty Years Spent in the Midland Counties, from 1830 to 1870, Volume 2

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W. Freeman, 1870

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Pagina 507 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Pagina 528 - London, the town council of any borough for the time being subject to the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales...
Pagina 831 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? • From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No, perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this ! SUBLIME WAS THE WARNING.
Pagina 859 - ... if we are to wait for improvement, till the cool, the calm, the discreet part of mankind begin it, till church governors solicit, or ministers of state propose it — I will venture to pronounce, that (without His interposition with whom nothing is impossible) we may remain as we are till the
Pagina 439 - England, but the evidence shews that the usage has been to admit the children of dissenters ; and in the absence of any positive evidence confining the benefit of the charity to members of the Church of England, I think the question must be governed by usage, and that the Attorney General therefore is entitled to have this VOL.
Pagina 633 - In this practical country, the knowledge which gives power over nature is left to be picked up by chance on a man's way through life. In this religious country, the knowledge of God's works forms no part of the education of the people, no part even of the accomplishments of a gentleman ; but this judicial blindness cannot much longer exist.
Pagina 468 - That foreign commerce is eminently conducive to the wealth and prosperity of a country, by enabling it to import the commodities, for the production of which the soil, climate, capital, and industry...
Pagina 730 - Russell moved an amendment, declaring that no readjustment of the franchise would satisfy the House of Commons or the country which did not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than was contemplated in the Government measure.
Pagina 780 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Pagina 662 - ... explain. Men in nature's state are equal : property, conferred by laws, From the sanction of the people all its rights and safeguards draws. You but hold it at their pleasure, you must yield it at their summons : And the pleasure of the people, seek it in the House of Commons. JD Have you then no higher standards, fixed ere human laws began By the voice of man's Creator, by the moral sense of man ? Rules may alter, codes may perish, customs change, but these abide, Truths no practice can abolish,...

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