A Memoir of the Right Hon. William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley: With Selections from His Correspondence, Volume 2

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R. Bentley & Son, 1883
 

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Page 66 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 65 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of Philosophy may incline the mind of Man to Atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to Religion. For in the entrance of Philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of Man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man...
Page 261 - When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Page 24 - From a similar principle to which, though the forest laws are now mitigated, and by degrees grown entirely obsolete, yet from this root has sprung a bastard slip, known by the name of the game law, now arrived to and wantoning in its highest .vigour: both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons...
Page 76 - is wife (Not to mention the 'ousemaid an' cook), To come in an' 'ands up an' be still, An' honestly work for my bread, My livin' in that state of life To which it shall please God to call Me!
Page 17 - That in all cases in which an oath may lawfully be and shall have been administered to any person, either as a juryman or a witness, or a deponent in any proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of law or equity in the United Kingdom, or on appointment to any office or employment, or on any occasion whatever, such person is bound by the oath administered, provided the same shall have been administered in such form and with such ceremonies as such person may declare to be binding...
Page 24 - ... now arrived to and wantoning in its highest vigour : both founded upon the same unreasonable notions of permanent property in wild creatures ; and both productive of the same tyranny to the commons : but with this difference — that the forest laws established only one mighty hunter throughout the land ; the game laws have raised a little Nimrod in every manor.
Page 266 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; And...
Page 35 - Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and courts, and alleys, and slums, nests of ignorance, vice, depravity, and crime...
Page 24 - English constitution consisted in the depopulation of whole countries, for the purposes of the king's royal diversion ; and subjecting both them, and all the ancient forests of the kingdom, to the unreasonable severities of forest laws imported from the continent, whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue, and kill it, upon his own estate. But...