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I suggest, accordingly, as a policy for the immediate future, the raising of the scale of national relief to a more adequate level, coupled with the abolition of what I have termed wholesale outdoor relief in the localities.
Nor had this man, so eminent for the management of public business, any of that talent which springs from justice, and makes its possessor a skilful manager of his own affairs. Perpetually absorbed in intrigues and schemes, he was too much engaged in cheating others on a large scale to have time to prevent being himself cheated on a small one.
It was true that with what little aristocracy we boasted and in that little there was truly a great blessing, inasmuch as it illustrated the fact of there being one spot on this earth where common sense had got the better of refined sense was founded in the possession of 'niggers, the number giving rank in the scale.
If, especially in England, we make rough and reluctant bells go in gay measures, when we whip them to run down the scale to ring in a wedding bells that would step to quite another and a less agile march with a better grace there are belfries that hold far sweeter companies.
"And on the whole," he added, "as society must have leaders, I prefer that they should be people with brains as well as money. The ambition is quite legitimate. Do your part in civilising the drawing-room, as Arnold conceives he is doing his on a larger scale. A good and intelligent woman is no superfluity in the world of wealth nowadays."
On the other hand, while the Armada relieved England of a terrible danger and dashed Spain's hope of domination in the north, it was not of itself a fatal blow. The war still continued, with other Spanish expeditions organized on a grand scale, and ended in 1604, so far as England was concerned, with that country's renunciation of trade to the Indies and aid to the Dutch.
Oh, Paul, you know not you know not what a glorious life is that of a highwayman; but you shall taste it one of these days, you shall, on my honour. "I now lived with a club of honest fellows. We called ourselves 'The Exclusives, for we were mighty reserved in our associates, and only those who did business on a grand scale were admitted into our set.
This can best be appreciated when we consider how many gradations of scale are interposed in the modern world between the government of a town or district of the size of fifth-century Athens and the government of our own sovereign state, the British Commonwealth.
The charge made by the companies to consumers is about 6d. per 1,000 gallons, or L25 per million gallons. It has been found that water can on a large scale be softened from 14 deg. hardness to 5 deg. at a cost of 20s. per million gallons that is, 10 per cent. on the cost of the water to the companies, or 4 per cent. as the price charged to consumers.
He hinted that, if Ulster persisted in refusing the offer made by the Prime Minister, which was the Government's last word, the forces of the Crown would have to be employed against her; there were, he said, "worse things than bloodshed even on an extended scale"; and he ended by saying, "Let us go forward together and put these grave matters to the proof." Two days later Mr.
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