Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social ScienceJohn W. Parker and Son, 1876 - Great Britain The volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886." |
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Page 62 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 7 - The fact is, that murder is committed with as much regularity, and bears as uniform a relation to certain known circumstances, as do the movements of the tides, and the rotations of the seasons.
Page xxxix - ... for as the severity was too great, so the remedy was not effectual; simple theft not being so great a crime that it ought to cost a man his life, no punishment how severe soever being able to restrain those from robbing who can find out no other way of livelihood. 'In this...
Page 64 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Page 13 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 231 - Appeal may also, in any such cause or matter as aforesaid in which it may think it expedient so to do, call in the aid of one or moro assessors specially qualified, and try and hear such cause or matter wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessors.
Page 58 - Europe a law of nations, for which, according to the expression of an illustrious writer, human nature cannot be sufficiently grateful. This law is founded on the principle, that nations ought to do to one another in peace, the most good, and in war, the least evil possible. " According to the maxim that war is not a relation between a man and another, but between state and state, in which private persons are only accidental enemies, not such as men, nor even as members or subjects of the state,...
Page 64 - Wherefore, if the gentleman's son be apt to learning, let him be admitted ; if not apt, let the poor man's child that is apt enter his room.
Page xxi - ... every Committee and Sub-committee of such Department. Constitution and Conduct of Meetings. XXVII. For General Meetings of the Association twenty Members, for Meetings of the Council seven Members, for those of the Executive Committee five Members, and for those of other Committees and Sub-committees three Members, form a quorum. XXVIII. At all the aforesaid Meetings the Chairman has a vote ; if the votes be equal he has also a casting vote. XXIX. No original motion, of which previous notice...
Page 168 - ... maritime warfare, in which the private property of the enemy taken at sea or afloat in port is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation. This inequality in the operation of the laws of war, by land...