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Página 227 - ... would suppose him animated by the spirit of the creature he describes. And with all his drollery there is a mixture of rational and even religious reflection, at times, and always an air of pleasantry, good-nature, and humanity, that makes him, in my mind, one of the most amiable writers in the world.
Página 170 - ... by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, commission, consignment, or otherwise, in gross or by retail ; and all persons who, either for themselves or as agents or factors for others, seek their living by buying and selling, or by buying and letting for hire, or by the workmanship of goods or commodities...
Página 65 - April, 1844, on a motion in the House of Commons for an address to the queen praying for the establishment of some method of collecting agricultural statistics, the vice-president of the Board of Trade, on the part of the government, concurred in the object of the motion, but from various causes he declined at that time giving the motion his support.
Página 113 - Member of any College of Physicians or Surgeons, or to any Graduate or Licentiate in Medicine, or to any Person lawfully qualified to practise Medicine...
Página 174 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Página 198 - that in every case of any clerk in holy orders of the United Church of England and Ireland who may be charged with any offence against the laws ecclesiastical, or concerning whom there may exist scandal or evil report as having offended against the said laws...
Página 169 - Creditor or not, shall judge of any Objection against allowing such Certificate, and either find the Bankrupt entitled thereto, and allow the same, or refuse or suspend the Allowance thereof, or annex such Conditions thereto as the Justice of the Case may require.
Página 58 - Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland' was established in 1723, and some of its Transactions were published. The society becoming extinct was succeeded by another in...
Página 38 - That in all indictments preferred before the said Justices and Commissioners under this Act, the venue laid in the margin shall be the same as if the offence had been committed in the county where the trial is had, and all material facts which in other indictments would be averred to have taken place in the county where the trial is had shall in indictments prepared and tried under this Act be averred to have taken place on the high seas.
Página 28 - Chancery to act, perform, and do all such matters and things relating to the delivering of the suitors' money and effects into the Bank, and taking them out of the Bank, &c., which was formerly done by the Masters and Usher of the Court.' The AccountantGeneral is ' not to meddle with the suitors' money, but only to keep an account with the Bank.