National Review, Том 12Robert Theobold, 1861 |
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... Reform , " is not a very definite one , and has widely different meanings in different mouths , be- sides having no ... reforms worth any thing are to be expected from men set down to a given subject with instructions to see what ...
... Reform , " is not a very definite one , and has widely different meanings in different mouths , be- sides having no ... reforms worth any thing are to be expected from men set down to a given subject with instructions to see what ...
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... reform sounds almost like an absurdity ; they can at best only state difficulties , and the real work remains to be done by him who determines how they are to be solved . Reforms and poems cannot be made to order . At any rate ...
... reform sounds almost like an absurdity ; they can at best only state difficulties , and the real work remains to be done by him who determines how they are to be solved . Reforms and poems cannot be made to order . At any rate ...
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... reform is the grand forty - volume argument : the statute - law of England ( we are told ) now con- sists of forty quarto volumes ; and it is a disgrace to the Legis- lature that a man should have to buy and hunt through forty quarto ...
... reform is the grand forty - volume argument : the statute - law of England ( we are told ) now con- sists of forty quarto volumes ; and it is a disgrace to the Legis- lature that a man should have to buy and hunt through forty quarto ...
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... reform are limited to these , and in com- menting on such proposals and discussions we must needs follow the same course ; but it must not be forgotten that besides all the difficulties surrounding the Public General Acts , there is a ...
... reform are limited to these , and in com- menting on such proposals and discussions we must needs follow the same course ; but it must not be forgotten that besides all the difficulties surrounding the Public General Acts , there is a ...
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... reforms ; it is like enacting that every man shall leave his umbrella at home , provided always neverthe- less that if it should come on to rain , the said umbrella shall * The Act 8 and 9 Vict . c . 112 , to render the assignment of ...
... reforms ; it is like enacting that every man shall leave his umbrella at home , provided always neverthe- less that if it should come on to rain , the said umbrella shall * The Act 8 and 9 Vict . c . 112 , to render the assignment of ...
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Стр. 258 - the bare floor; for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house swarmed with vermin. There was no hay, no straw, no oats ; but mouldy corn and leaves of maize ; no discretion, no care, no honesty. At the there was no stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this no other outhouses,
Стр. 369 - quite wanting, at the same time that they do not offend the superstitious disrelish for change, which is always present." But by fiction is meant something much more than the ordinary acceptation of the term. Legal fiction is taken to signify " any assumption which conceals, or affects to conceal, the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration, its letter remaining unchanged, its operation being modified. 1
Стр. 276 - with English taste.] Turkish Life and Character. By Walter Thornbury. 2 vols. Smith and Elder. Hopes and Fears; or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster. By the Author of the " Heir of Redclyffe.
Стр. 257 - in his preface to this last volume, " as an unfortunate circumstance, for which the people of the South were in nowise to blame, and the abolition of which was no more immediately practicable than the abrogation of hospitals, penitentiaries, and boarding-schools, it was with the distinct hope of aiding in this
Стр. 271 - I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit Slavery in all the