Grain Or Chaff?: The Autobiography of a Police MagistrateT. F. Unwin, 1903 - 343 pagina's |
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Grain Or Chaff?: The Autobiography of a Police Magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden Volledige weergave - 1903 |
Grain Or Chaff?: The Autobiography of a Police Magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2019 |
Grain Or Chaff?: The Autobiography of a Police Magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2019 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 192 - A predecessor of mine used to boast that he made one thousand pounds a year in his office ; but how he did this (if indeed he did it) is to me a secret. His clerk, now mine, told me I had more business than he had ever known there ; I am sure I had as much as any man could do. The truth is, the fees are so very low, when any are due, and so much is done for nothing, that if a single justice of peace had business enough to employ twenty clerks, neither he nor they would get much by their labour.
Pagina 52 - Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
Pagina 191 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £-500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
Pagina 189 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence...
Pagina 191 - Litchfield Street, was a great man in those days, and old Justice Hyde, and Justice Girdler, and Justice Blackborough, a trading justice at Clerkenwell Green, and an old ironmonger. The plan used to be to issue out warrants and take up all the poor devils in the street, and then there was the bailing of them, 2s.
Pagina 183 - Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: KINDNESS in another's trouble, COURAGE in your own.
Pagina 307 - habitual drunkard" means a person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy is notwithstanding by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself and his or her affairs.
Pagina 191 - ... almost sixteen hours in the twenty-four in the most unwholesome, as well as nauseous air in the universe, and which hath in his case corrupted a good constitution without contaminating his morals.
Pagina 142 - Gentlemen of the jury, the prisoner at the bar is indicted for the uttering certain poems composed by himself, purporting them to be the poems of Thomas Rowley, a priest of the fifteenth century, against the so frequently disturbed peace of Parnassus, to the great disturbance and confusion of the Antiquary Society, and likewise notoriously to the prejudice of...
Pagina 215 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.