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No 45 The FREE-HOLDER No 45 Friday, May 25. Nimium risus pretium esi si probitatis impendis constat Quintil. Laughter is bought too dear, if it be at the expence of honesty.
My old friend, Sir Nathaniel de Salis, who, like myself, is a free-holder near Castra Regis his estate, Doom Tower, is over the border of Derbyshire, on the Peak is coming to stay with me for the festivities to welcome Edgar Caswall. He is just the sort of man you will like. He is devoted to history, and is President of the Mercian Archaeological Society.
A farmer's son has the right to vote without these qualifications, evidently on the ancient Saxon presumption that a free-holder represents more vitally the interests of a country than the penniless floater, who neither works nor earns. In other words, the carpet-bag voter does not yet play any part in Canadian politics.
The court may decree that the guilty party must not marry again. LABOUR LAWS: No Sunday labour. There are no other laws. SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS: A woman as a free-holder or lease-holder may vote at a county election to decide as to the adoption or non-adoption of a law permitting stock to run at large.
"Yes, we'll have dinner, and you can get the rushes out afterwards." Mother Chiquard was the proud free-holder of a little cottage that was separated from the bank of the Dordogne by the high road between Martel and Montvalent.
"Had the captain owned but a foot square of earth, at the end of the causeway," observed the brigadier, mournfully, "the matter might be cleared up; but as things are, it is beyond dispute, a most unfortunate occurrence." "But Sir John voted with me, and he is no more a free-holder in Leaplow, than I am myself." "True; but Sir John voted with the bulk of his political friends."
Land with the German race seems at a very early time to have become everywhere the accompaniment of full freedom. The freeman was strictly the free-holder, and the exercise of his full rights as a free member of the community to which he belonged became inseparable from the possession of his "holding" in it.
In his chapter on Wit and Eloquence in Irish Bulls, there is a speech of a poor free-holder to a candidate who asked for his vote: this speech was made to my father when he was canvassing the county of Longford. It was repeated to me a few hours afterwards, and I wrote it down instantly without, I believe, the variation of a word. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Aug. 1, 1802.
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