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Carte says: "The crown exercised in those days an exorbitant and inconvenient power, ordering the justices of the king's court, in suits about lands, to turn out, put, and keep in possession, which of the litigants they pleased; to send contradictory orders; and take large sums of money from each; to respite proceedings; to direct sentences; and the judges, acting by their commission, conceived themselves bound to observe such orders, to the great delay, interruption, and preventing of justice; at least, this was John's practice," Carte's History of England, vol. 1, p. 832.
W. Taylor, Vol. XVI, p. 856, entitled "Piece Rate System." *end footnote* Under this system the pay of each girl was increased in proportion to the quantity of her output and also still more in proportion to the accuracy of her work.
Then he heard Marc cry out: "Quelque chose vol en l'air!" He rubbed the moisture out of his eyes and stared at the mosquito, which was growing bigger every minute.
The learned modern Ethnologists, however, will generally have none of this latter idea. For other absurd Sunday taboos see Westermarck on The Moral Ideas, vol. ii, p. 289. For a tracing of this taboo from useless superstition to practical utility see Hastings's Encycl. Religion and Ethics, art. "The Sabbath."
Bentham's Works, vol. i. p. 8, quoted in Lytton's England and the English , p. 469. This passage was written by Mill, cf. preface.
He was unpersuasive, he irritated and repelled, in spite of his wish to be fair and candid, in spite of having so much to teach, in spite of such vigour of statement and argument, because on the face of all his writings he was so extravagantly one-sided, so incapable of an equitable view, so much a slave to the unreality of extremes. T. Mozley, Reminiscences, vol. ii. p. 5.
Charles Dickens certainly spared none to his Readings in his conscientious endeavour to give his own imaginings visible and audible embodiment. The sincerity of his devotion to his task, when once it had been taken in hand, was in its way something remarkable. Acting of all kinds has been pronounced by Mrs. * Fanny Kemble's Journal, Vol. II. p. 130.
See Thomas Slater's Moral Theology, vol. ii, p. 318, and a case in point, both quoted by Rev. This is undoubtedly the case. The extreme psychic importance of the manner in which the act of defloration is accomplished is strongly emphasized by Adler. He regards it as a frequent cause of permanent sexual anæsthesia.
For printed authorities, see Suppression of the Monasteries, published by the Camden Society; Strype's Memorials, Vol. At Tewkesbury, where there was an abbot and thirty-two monks, I find payment made to a hundred and forty-four servants in livery, who were wholly engaged in the service of the abbey.
First Brigade, Colonel T. J. Jordan, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry; Second Brigade, Colonel S. D. Atkins, Ninety-second Illinois Vol.; Third Brigade, Colonel George E. Spencer, First Alabama Cavalry. One battery of four guns. The actual strength of the army, as given in the following official tabular statements, was at the time sixty thousand and seventy-nine men, and sixty-eight guns.
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