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... Commons by 211 to 149 votes . - The London School Board , by a majo- rity of 41 to 3 , reject a proposal for teaching the Bible without religious note or comment in schools under their management . Lord San- don protested against the ...
... Commons by 211 to 149 votes . - The London School Board , by a majo- rity of 41 to 3 , reject a proposal for teaching the Bible without religious note or comment in schools under their management . Lord San- don protested against the ...
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... Commons by 211 to 149 votes . - The London School Board , by a majo- rity of 41 to 3 , reject a proposal for teaching the Bible without religious note or comment in schools under their management . Lord San- don protested against the ...
... Commons by 211 to 149 votes . - The London School Board , by a majo- rity of 41 to 3 , reject a proposal for teaching the Bible without religious note or comment in schools under their management . Lord San- don protested against the ...
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... Commons to - day the sitting was chiefly occupied with a debate on the Govern- ment proposal for a Select Committee to inquire into the present disturbed condition of West- meath , Sir Robert Peel , Mr. Osborne , and others , taunting ...
... Commons to - day the sitting was chiefly occupied with a debate on the Govern- ment proposal for a Select Committee to inquire into the present disturbed condition of West- meath , Sir Robert Peel , Mr. Osborne , and others , taunting ...
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... Commons , and to demand the removal of the Bishops from Parliament . More fighting before Paris , again to the advantage of the Versailles troops . They were observed to treat the captured Communists with marked severity . Gustave ...
... Commons , and to demand the removal of the Bishops from Parliament . More fighting before Paris , again to the advantage of the Versailles troops . They were observed to treat the captured Communists with marked severity . Gustave ...
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... Commons to secure the preservation of the unenclosed parts of Epping Forest as an open space for the enjoyment of the people of the metropolis . Mr. Lowe and Mr. Gladstone op- posed the motion , on the ground that the land was the ...
... Commons to secure the preservation of the unenclosed parts of Epping Forest as an open space for the enjoyment of the people of the metropolis . Mr. Lowe and Mr. Gladstone op- posed the motion , on the ground that the land was the ...
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Page 60 - I WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Page 34 - Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this Earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.
Page 73 - States in respeot of these claims, they have arrived, individually and collectively, at the conclusion that these claims do not constitute, upon the principles of international law applicable to such cases, good foundation for an award of compensation or computation of damages between nations...
Page 117 - 2. That as Holy Scripture, in divers places, doth promise life to them that believe, and declare the condemnation of them that believe not, so doth the Church in this confession declare the necessity for all who would be in a state of salvation of holding fast the Catholic faith, and the great peril of rejecting the same.
Page 48 - American citizens and to maintain the dignity of the flag. It is hoped that all pending questions with Spain growing out of the affairs in Cuba may be adjusted in the spirit of peace and conciliation which has hitherto guided the two powers in their treatment of such questions.
Page 108 - You have despoiled Churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. I believe that the people of this country have had enough of the policy of confiscation.
Page 48 - An example has thus been set which, if successful in its final issue, may be followed by other civilized nations, and finally be the means of returning to productive industry millions of men now maintained to settle the disputes of nations by the bayonet and the broadside.
Page 52 - They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug...
Page 138 - the abolition of the law of primogeniture and the limitation of the system of entails and settlements, so that ' life interests ' may be for the most part got rid of, and a real ownership substituted for them. It means also that it shall be as easy to buy or sell land as to buy or sell a ship, or, at least, as easy as it is in Australia and in many or in all the states of the American Union.
Page 49 - being, thank God, somewhat better, I am coming to church. I must leave, I fear, before the service is concluded, that I may watch by his bedside. Can you not say a few words in the early part of the service that I may join with you in prayer for my husband before I return to him?