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Страница xlv - In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth.
Страница xlv - scholastic grossness of barbarous ages,' describing the students as having ' newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy.
Страница 262 - proves (note that the burden of proof is thrown on the accused) that he used all reasonable means to ensure her being sent to sea in a seaworthy state, or that her going to sea in such unseaworthy state was under the circumstances reasonable and justifiable.
Страница xlv - experiences of hunters, fowlers, fishermen, shepherds, gardeners, apothecaries ; and in the other sciences, architects, engineers, mariners, anatomists. And this will give them such a real tincture of natural knowledge as they shall never forget, but daily augment with delight.
Страница xlv - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature, and if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself, by which
Страница 27 - up to justice all persons who, being charged with certain specified crimes, should seek an asylum or be found within the territories of the other. Under this arrangement each country has surrendered to the other on demand many fugitive criminals. In the present year, however, the
Страница 154 - Committee, Parliament enacted in 1870 that 'a fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign State, unless provision is made by the law of that State, or by arrangement, that he shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign State for any offence committed prior to his surrender, other than the extradition crime
Страница 13 - what our poet has called— The lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.
Страница 39 - If we go on into the results shown by the inspectors' examination the situation would appear still less favourable. For whereas of the children actually presented for examination, 481,000, being over 10 years of age, ought to have been presented in
Страница xli - changing—progressively, we hope—and the law needs to be brought into harmony with it. Burke, in one of his grandest speeches, said: ' I would have the laws tuned in unison with the manners of the times—very dissonant are a gentle country and cruel laws; very dissonant that your reason is furious but your passions moderate, and that you are always equitable except in your courts of justice.

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