Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign

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Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1903 - 315 páginas
 

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Página 193 - An Act for granting to Her Majesty duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices," is in this Act referred to and may be cited as the Income Tax Act, 1853.
Página 42 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Página 146 - ... be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life, or for any term not less than fifteen years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.
Página 43 - Chester presents Walton with a bridle. To curb women's tongues that talk so idle.
Página 265 - Walker is situated, or about 98° west. From that point we desire that every effort be used to endeavour to penetrate to the southward and westward, in a course as direct towards Behring's Strait as the position and extent of the ice, or the existence of land, at present unknown, may admit. We direct you to this particular part of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific...
Página 17 - And each of the parties shall say to the other : — ' I call upon these persons here present to witness that I AB do take thee CD to be my lawful wedded wife [or husband.~\' Provided also, that there be no lawful impediment to the marriage of such parties.
Página 2 - It did; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Página 17 - I do solemnly declare, That I know not of any lawful impediment why I AB may not be joined in matrimony to CD" And each of the parties shall say to the other, " I call upon these persons here present to witness, That I AB do take thee, CD, to be my lawful wedded wife [or husband].
Página 92 - May 10, 1839 Sir Robert Peel presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has had the honour of receiving your Majesty's note of this morning. In respectfully submitting to your Majesty's pleasure, and humbly returning into your Majesty's hands the important trust which your Majesty had been graciously pleased to commit to him, Sir Robert Peel trusts that your Majesty will permit him to state to your Majesty his impression with respect to the circumstances which have led to the termination of his...
Página 263 - These shabby bucks did walk ; And I went and followed those seedy ones, And listened to their talk. Was I sober or awake ? Could I believe my ears? Those dismal beggars spake Of nothing but railroad shares. I wondered more and more : Says one — "Good friend of mine, How many shares have you wrote for, In the Diddlesex Junction line ? " BALLADS.

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