Public Documents of Massachusetts, Том 3

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Сторінка 213 - I, , do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States: So help me God.
Сторінка cvii - The land grows weary of her inhabitants, insomuch that man, which is the most precious of all creatures, is here more vile and base than the earth...
Сторінка x - All that is requisite to constitute such a contract is the payment of the consideration by the one, and the promise of the other to pay the amount of the insurance upon the happening of injury to the subject by a contingency contemplated in the contract.
Сторінка xii - The term of office of the commission is hereby extended to the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and six. The provisions of section two of chapter three hundred and seventy-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine shall remain in force during said extended term.
Сторінка 94 - ... wilfully damage any of the property of such town or city in the charge of such overseers or other officers he shall be deemed a vagrant within the meaning of the statutes relating to vagrants and vagabonds and may be prosecuted and punished in the manner provided by...
Сторінка xxxiii - The more we see of mental disease in its various forms, the more we are convinced that the study of its prevention is infinitely more important than even the study of its cure, and that the dissemination of more correct views of the true way of living and a more rigid observance of the laws of health and nature would greatly diminish its frequency.
Сторінка 229 - ... premium, anything in the policy to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, that notice of the claim and proof of the death shall be submitted to the company...
Сторінка 10 - Education and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner able to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil.
Сторінка clxix - But my principal aim and hope was to enable her to recognize the twenty-six signs which represent the letters of the alphabet. She submitted to the process patiently, though without understanding its purpose. I will here give a rough sketch of the means which I contrived for her mental development. I first selected short monosyllables, so that the sign which she was to learn might be as simple as possible.
Сторінка clxx - ... to learn other signs. I went on with monosyllables, as being the simplest, and she learned gradually one sign of a letter from another, until she knew all the arbitrary, tangible twenty-six letters of the alphabet, and how to arrange them to express various objects : knife, fork, spoon, thread, and the like. Afterwards she learned the names of the ten numerals or digits, of the punctuation and exclamation and interrogation points ; some forty-six in all. With these she could express the name...

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