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This , however , is not the most objectionable class ; the wives of such men as Mr.
Huskisson and Lord Grenville are to receive enormous pensions at their death ,
while they are already saddled on the public for prodigious sums . Then there ...
This , however , is not the most objectionable class ; the wives of such men as Mr.
Huskisson and Lord Grenville are to receive enormous pensions at their death ,
while they are already saddled on the public for prodigious sums . Then there ...
Page 97
They receive considerable sums from private individuals employing them in town
or country ; and not unfrequently a handsome gratuity from the libertine sons of
the higher orders for shielding them from the consequence of their brawls in ...
They receive considerable sums from private individuals employing them in town
or country ; and not unfrequently a handsome gratuity from the libertine sons of
the higher orders for shielding them from the consequence of their brawls in ...
Page 113
... each guarded by its respective keepera Every commodity being received in its
rawest state , it had a variety of processes to pass through before it was prepared
for the king and his guests . This inconvenient mode of receipt multiplied offices ...
... each guarded by its respective keepera Every commodity being received in its
rawest state , it had a variety of processes to pass through before it was prepared
for the king and his guests . This inconvenient mode of receipt multiplied offices ...
Page 158
... 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
continuing only to receive their old statutable allowance of forty shillings a year .
... 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
continuing only to receive their old statutable allowance of forty shillings a year .
Page 161
... that the whole income actually received by charities in the year 1785 , was
between seven and £ 800,000 a year . Allowing for the rise in the value of land
since that time , and in some instances for the deficient powers of trustees for the
most ...
... that the whole income actually received by charities in the year 1785 , was
between seven and £ 800,000 a year . Allowing for the rise in the value of land
since that time , and in some instances for the deficient powers of trustees for the
most ...
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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.