The Pamphleteer, Tom 9Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1817 |
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Strona 35 - Ordinary service must be secured by the motives to ordinary integrity. I do not hesitate to say, that that state which lays its foundation in rare and heroic !< virtues, will be sure to have its superstructure in the basest profligacy and corruption.
Strona 474 - To dispense justice to millions of people of various languages, manners, usages and religions ; to administer a vast and complicated system of revenue throughout districts equal in extent to some of the most considerable kingdoms in Europe ; to maintain civil order in one of the most populous and litigious regions of the world ; these are now the duties of the larger proportion of the civil servants of the Company.
Strona 29 - I am convinced that very few trusts in the ordinary course of administration have admitted less abuse than this. Efficient ministers have been their own paymasters, it is true ; but their very partiality has operated as a kind of justice, and still it was service that was paid. When we look over this Exchequer list, we find it filled with the descendants of the Walpoles, of the Pelhams, of the Townshends, — names to whom this country owes its liberties, and to whom his Majesty owes his crown.
Strona 497 - William, in the year 1810) will shew the students who have been translated from Hertford to Fort William to stand honourably distinguished for regular attendance, — for obedience to the statutes and discipline of the College,- — for orderly and decorous demeanour, — for moderation in expense, and consequently in the amount of their debt; — and, in a word, for those decencies of conduct which denote men well born, and characters well trained.
Strona 219 - ... sufficiency for his subsistence, or the means of procuring it: and as no fixed laws for the regulation of property can be so contrived, as to provide for the relief of every case and distress which may arise, these cases and distresses, when their right and share in the common stock...
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Strona 576 - ... money. What they have at home from their parents is seldom more than bread and water, and that, many of them, very scantily too. If therefore care be taken that they have...
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Strona 16 - ... which was made of that part of its prerogative occasioned parliament frequently to interpose ; and particularly, after the crown had been greatly impoverished, an act passed, whereby all future grants, for any longer term than thirty-one years, were declared void.