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... tion and of any size . It is most compact where under the action of the salt water , below high - water mark ; above this it is much more open and shaky , and it is soon lost in ascending from the beach , either running into the sands ...
... tion and of any size . It is most compact where under the action of the salt water , below high - water mark ; above this it is much more open and shaky , and it is soon lost in ascending from the beach , either running into the sands ...
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... tion increases most , in the second convicted class , from Yorkshire . But to make these observations , as already observed , really of value , more ample returns are required of first convicted men ; and a reference to the population ...
... tion increases most , in the second convicted class , from Yorkshire . But to make these observations , as already observed , really of value , more ample returns are required of first convicted men ; and a reference to the population ...
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... tion , even on this showing , is in three years and a half little more than 2 per cent . on the 688 men within this time discharged . 4. But much more striking is this fact when it is further considered that 6 of the 8 men stated in ...
... tion , even on this showing , is in three years and a half little more than 2 per cent . on the 688 men within this time discharged . 4. But much more striking is this fact when it is further considered that 6 of the 8 men stated in ...
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... tion . Date when sent for Trial . E.W. ( a ) . 21 26 28 W.M. ( a ) . 19 24 26 7 yrs . { Murder of a soldier in E. P. Read and write . Labourer Mar. 1827 J. W. ( b ) 18 26 28 J.G. ( a ) 21 34 · • J.C. ( a ) . 17 26 36 14 yrs . 28 7 yrs ...
... tion . Date when sent for Trial . E.W. ( a ) . 21 26 28 W.M. ( a ) . 19 24 26 7 yrs . { Murder of a soldier in E. P. Read and write . Labourer Mar. 1827 J. W. ( b ) 18 26 28 J.G. ( a ) 21 34 · • J.C. ( a ) . 17 26 36 14 yrs . 28 7 yrs ...
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... tion . Date when Tried . Attempt to I.C. murder Murder of Not read ; ig - Porter norant . Not read 1832 Soldier . 1833 Read . " " Tailor . " " • " " Not read Carpenter Read & write ; E. P. very intelli- Coachman 1834 gent Ditto Seaman ...
... tion . Date when Tried . Attempt to I.C. murder Murder of Not read ; ig - Porter norant . Not read 1832 Soldier . 1833 Read . " " Tailor . " " • " " Not read Carpenter Read & write ; E. P. very intelli- Coachman 1834 gent Ditto Seaman ...
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Page 147 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 147 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success Commencing in a truth ? — I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 139 - The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 147 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 140 - I will conclude with that which hath rationem totius, which is, that it disposeth the constitution of the mind not to be fixed or settled in the defects thereof, but still to be capable and susceptible of growth and reformation.
Page 139 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 140 - The good parts he hath he will learn to show to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them : the faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, that he doth ever intermix the correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof.
Page 147 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain.
Page 140 - Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the print ; for truth prints goodness, and they be the clouds of error which descend in the storms of passions and perturbations.
Page 139 - Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman weeping for her son that was dead, and thereupon said, Heri vidi fragilem frangi, hodie vidi mortalem mori.