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Page 120
One chairman of the board , per annum £ 1500 Four new members , each £ 1200
4800 Secretary ( Mallett , a foreigner ) 1000 Six inspectors , £ 600 each 3600
Four examiners , £ 260 ditto . 1040 Four examiners , £ 150 ditto 600 With ...
One chairman of the board , per annum £ 1500 Four new members , each £ 1200
4800 Secretary ( Mallett , a foreigner ) 1000 Six inspectors , £ 600 each 3600
Four examiners , £ 260 ditto . 1040 Four examiners , £ 150 ditto 600 With ...
Page 147
Robbery of Charitable Foundations . in Somersetshire , there are estates
possessed by trustees destined for four different charities , all four which are
equally abused . One estate worth £ 700 a year , only educates seven or eight
boys ; lands ...
Robbery of Charitable Foundations . in Somersetshire , there are estates
possessed by trustees destined for four different charities , all four which are
equally abused . One estate worth £ 700 a year , only educates seven or eight
boys ; lands ...
Page 153
We have seen that the revenues of the four great charities of the Charter House ,
Foundling Hospital , Christ's Hospital , and St. Paul's , amount to inore than
184,000 per annum . Of this immense sum , the revenues of the three first are ...
We have seen that the revenues of the four great charities of the Charter House ,
Foundling Hospital , Christ's Hospital , and St. Paul's , amount to inore than
184,000 per annum . Of this immense sum , the revenues of the three first are ...
Page 158
The fellowships are augmented to four or five hundred pounds a year by a liberal
interpretation of the term describing their money payments ; while the strictest
construction is adopted towards the scholars and founder's kin ; the latter ...
The fellowships are augmented to four or five hundred pounds a year by a liberal
interpretation of the term describing their money payments ; while the strictest
construction is adopted towards the scholars and founder's kin ; the latter ...
Page 195
The dissenting clergy , including itinerant preachers , amount to 20 thousand ,
their total income to £ 500,000 , which is exactly £ 25 a year each . In Ireland
there are four catholics to one protestant ; in England there are four dissenters ...
The dissenting clergy , including itinerant preachers , amount to 20 thousand ,
their total income to £ 500,000 , which is exactly £ 25 a year each . In Ireland
there are four catholics to one protestant ; in England there are four dissenters ...
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Page 446 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Page 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Page 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Page 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.