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... built , plain - looking man , walking up and down among the benches and talking familiarly with the members , was pointed out to me . It was the member for Clare . Here was the man who for years had controlled the British House of ...
... built , plain - looking man , walking up and down among the benches and talking familiarly with the members , was pointed out to me . It was the member for Clare . Here was the man who for years had controlled the British House of ...
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... built for that purpose , and it would be a pity to disappoint it from returning to its original object . I do want to hear high mass in Westminster Abbey , and I am deeply convinced , as far as man can judge from surrounding events ...
... built for that purpose , and it would be a pity to disappoint it from returning to its original object . I do want to hear high mass in Westminster Abbey , and I am deeply convinced , as far as man can judge from surrounding events ...
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... built up in spa- cious warehouses . The whole area covered by the docks and warehouses is about 300 acres . It will be seen from the plan that the two principal docks communicate with the river by a basin and canal at each extremity ...
... built up in spa- cious warehouses . The whole area covered by the docks and warehouses is about 300 acres . It will be seen from the plan that the two principal docks communicate with the river by a basin and canal at each extremity ...
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... built are not well filled . " I found this to be the case whenever I attended either church or chapel . It will be observed that the part of the metropolis which has the fewest sittings , as stated above , is the city of Westmin- ster ...
... built are not well filled . " I found this to be the case whenever I attended either church or chapel . It will be observed that the part of the metropolis which has the fewest sittings , as stated above , is the city of Westmin- ster ...
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... built two schools , Kingswood and Wood- house Grove ; and when the pupils cannot be admitted to these , a regular appropriation is made to assist their education elsewhere , under the direction of their pa- rents . They have liberally ...
... built two schools , Kingswood and Wood- house Grove ; and when the pupils cannot be admitted to these , a regular appropriation is made to assist their education elsewhere , under the direction of their pa- rents . They have liberally ...
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Page 85 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 85 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 184 - The interiors of these houses and their inmates corresponded with the exteriors. We saw half-dressed wretches crowding together to be warm ; and in one bed, although in the middle of the day, several women were imprisoned under a blanket, because as many others who had on their backs all the articles of dress that belonged to the party were then out of doors in the streets.
Page 237 - SWEET Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine ! How fair thou art let others tell, To feel how fair shall long be mine. Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell In memory's dream that sunny smile Which o'er thee on that evening fell, When first I saw thy fairy isle.
Page 85 - Finally, if a company of Christians find the public worship where they live to be so defiled that they cannot with a good conscience join in it, and if they do not know of any place to which they can conveniently go, where they may worship God purely, and in a regular way ; if, I say, such a body finding some that have been ordained, though to the lower functions, should submit itself entirely to their conduct, or finding none of those, should by a common consent desire some of their own number to...
Page 191 - That the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times.
Page 96 - That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to...
Page 181 - First, as to the extent and operation of the evils which are the subject of the inquiry :That the various forms of epidemic, endemic, and other disease caused, or aggravated, or propagated chiefly amongst the labouring classes by atmospheric impurities produced by decomposing animal and vegetable substances, by damp and filth, and close and overcrowded dwellings...
Page 86 - ... church for above half an age after, did, notwithstanding those irregularities, acknowledge the foreign churches so constituted, to be true churches, as to all the essentials of a church, though they had been at first irregularly formed, and continued still to be in an imperfect state. And therefore the general words in which this part of the article is framed, seem to have been designed on purpose not to exclude them.
Page 192 - That the population so exposed is less susceptible of moral influences, and the effects of education are more transient than with a healthy population. That these adverse circumstances tend to produce an adult population short-lived, improvident, reckless, and...