Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh CitizenT. N. Foulis, 1915 - 509 стор. |
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... Parliament House - The Law Courts - The judges - My first attend- ance at a criminal trial - Terribly severe sentences - Many illiterate prisoners - Lord Justice - General Macneill - Ex - Lord Justice - General Hope , a distinguished ...
... Parliament House - The Law Courts - The judges - My first attend- ance at a criminal trial - Terribly severe sentences - Many illiterate prisoners - Lord Justice - General Macneill - Ex - Lord Justice - General Hope , a distinguished ...
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... Parliament Hall - The " Cotton Mill " -Botanical Gardens buildings - Calton Jail site - Modern public buildings - Improvements CHAPTER . 211 EIGHTEEN Edinburgh University - Laughing - gas day - Professors Gregory and Forbes -Study of ...
... Parliament Hall - The " Cotton Mill " -Botanical Gardens buildings - Calton Jail site - Modern public buildings - Improvements CHAPTER . 211 EIGHTEEN Edinburgh University - Laughing - gas day - Professors Gregory and Forbes -Study of ...
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... Parliament House Advice to young advocate - Daily study to avoid mental atrophy - Lord Jeffrey to his brother ( note , p . 308 ) -Experience of men- Juries and judges and witnesses - Strain of criminal cases - Strange experi- ences ...
... Parliament House Advice to young advocate - Daily study to avoid mental atrophy - Lord Jeffrey to his brother ( note , p . 308 ) -Experience of men- Juries and judges and witnesses - Strain of criminal cases - Strange experi- ences ...
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... Parliament - Meeting with Chamberlain - A Home Rule episode - John Bright at Home Rule division -Criminal Procedure Amendment Act - Lucky chance to pass it - Saving effected by Act - Both money and time - Major O'Gorman CHAPTER 443 ...
... Parliament - Meeting with Chamberlain - A Home Rule episode - John Bright at Home Rule division -Criminal Procedure Amendment Act - Lucky chance to pass it - Saving effected by Act - Both money and time - Major O'Gorman CHAPTER 443 ...
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... Parliamentary Committee sat to con- sider some railway questions . One of these was : " What is the route to be taken by the single line to be made into Scotland ? " And there was no one sitting on the committee , no engineer or pro ...
... Parliamentary Committee sat to con- sider some railway questions . One of these was : " What is the route to be taken by the single line to be made into Scotland ? " And there was no one sitting on the committee , no engineer or pro ...
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Сторінка 360 - But I'm sadly afraid, if we do not take care, A relapse to low life may our prospects impair ; So of beastly propensities let us beware, Which nobody can deny.
Сторінка 288 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Сторінка 158 - Oh! the bodily and mental wearisomeness of sitting six hours a day, staring idly at a page, without motion and without thought, and trembling at the gradual approach of the merciless giant. I never got a single prize, and once sat boobie at the annual public examination. The beauty of no Roman word, or thought, or action, ever occurred to me ! nor did I ever fancy that Latin was of any use except to torture boys.
Сторінка 334 - A clock that wants both hands, As useless when it goes as when it stands ; for only keep him going) and he bustles about the stage to some purpose.
Сторінка 480 - Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience; A friend like this would suit my sorrows well.
Сторінка 155 - The satyrs of old were satyrs of note, With the head of a man, and the shanks of a goat; But the satyrs of Jesus these satyrs surpass, With the shanks of a sheep and the head of an ass, This is ascribed to Mr.
Сторінка 271 - Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating conscience cheers; The general favourite as the general friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? Yet even on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings: New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.
Сторінка 354 - Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Сторінка 206 - The truth is," wrote Lord Cockburn in July, 1846, " that Macaulay, with all his admitted knowledge, talent, eloquence, and worth, is not popular. He cares more for his ' History ' than for the jobs of his constituents, and answers letters irregularly, and with a brevity deemed contemptuous ; and, above all other defects, he suffers severely from the vice of overtalking, and consequently of underlistening.