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Page 225 - 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 219 - 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 220 - 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 191 - ... nor delay their causes willingly for covetousness of money, or other thing that may turn you to profit, and ye shall give due attention accordingly: As God you help and by the contents of this Book.
Page 226 - 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 223 - My Lady Gerrard treated us at Mulberry Garden,* now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated. at...
Page 39 - 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 193 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Page 226 - 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...
Page 144 - ... ill-health, he maintains, ensues from acid substances in the soil, which, being absorbed by the roots, act as poison. The small roots wither and cease to act, and the upper and younger shoots consequently turn yellow, or become spotted, indicative of their morbid state. In such cases the usual remedy is to transplant into fresh soil, in clean pots with good drainage, and this often with the best results. But his experience of several years has proved the unfailing efficacy of the simpler treatment,...