Vol. 7th July to December, MDCCCXXXVII

Front Cover
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 136 - Act contained, or of any proceedings to be had touching the conviction of any offender or offenders against this Act, shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed or removable by certiorari, or any other writ or process whatsoever, into any of Her Majesty's courts of record...
Page 10 - Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and...
Page 79 - When clay or tenacious soils are burnt, the effect is of the same kind; they are brought nearer to a state analogous to that of sands.
Page 132 - And be it enacted, That so much of the said recited act of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his said...
Page 82 - The process is to take shoots from the choicest sorts, insert them in a potato, and plunge both into the ground, leaving but an inch or two of the shoot above the surface. The potato nourishes the shoot, while it pushes out roots, and the shoot gradually grows up and becomes a beautiful tree, bearing the best fruit, without requiring to be grafted.
Page 140 - Oath required by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third...
Page 115 - The work it does is good and blest, and may be proudly told, We see it in the teeming barns, and fields of waving gold : Its metal is unsullied, no blood-stain lingers there : GOD speed it well ; and let it thrive unshackled everywhere. The bark may rest upon the wave, the spear may gather dust; But never may the prow that cuts the furrow lie and rust. Fill up, fill up, with glowing...
Page 10 - An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Workhouses and other Property of Parishes and of incorporations or Unions of Parishes in England and Wales...
Page 133 - ... so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and lose the sum of...
Page 170 - There seemed no end to these forests, save where little irregular spots of herbage, fed by cattle, intervened. Whenever we gained an eminence it was only to discover more ranges of dark wood, variegated with meadows and glittering streams. White clover and a profusion of sweet-scented flowers clothe their banks; above, waves the mountain-ash, glowing with scarlet berries; and beyond, rise hills and rocks and mountains, piled upon one another, and fringed with fir to their topmost acclivities. Perhaps...

Bibliographic information