London Society, Volume 33William Clowes and Sons, 1878 |
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Page 213 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Page 422 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Page 211 - Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
Page 183 - And ye shall truly counsel them that ye shall be retained with, after your cunning, and ye shall not defer, tract, nor delay their causes willingly for covetousness of mony, or other thing that may turn you to profit, and ye shall give due attendance according. As God you help, and his Saints.
Page 212 - III. adopted as a fixed principle that no individual engaged in trade, however ample might be his nominal fortune, should be created a British peer. Nor do I believe that in the course of fifty years he infringed or violated this rule, except in the single instance before us.
Page 218 - Every peer who becomes a bankrupt shall be disqualified from sitting or voting in the House of Lords, or in any Committee thereof, and further, if a peer of Scotland or Ireland, shall be disqualified from being elected to sit and vote in the House of Lords.
Page 37 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 217 - Act, 1862. 124. If a person having privilege of Parliament commits an act of bankruptcy, he may be dealt with under this Act in like manner as if he had not such privilege.
Page 137 - Already now the snow-drop dares appear, The first pale blossom of the unripened year ; As Flora's breath, by some transforming power, Had changed an icicle into a flower : Its name and hue the scentless plant retains, And winter lingers in its icy veins.
Page 218 - WHEREAS it is highly necessary, for the preservation of the dignity and independence of parliament, that members of the house of commons of the united kingdom, who become bankrupts, and do not pay their debts in full, shall not retain their seats...