Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton&Company, 1865 - 386 páginas |
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Página 69
... profit it does not answer to spend 48 per cent . of the capital in superintendence , as in the engineering department of the Indian Government ; and Indian rail- way companies , knowing this , manage to keep their su- perintendence ...
... profit it does not answer to spend 48 per cent . of the capital in superintendence , as in the engineering department of the Indian Government ; and Indian rail- way companies , knowing this , manage to keep their su- perintendence ...
Página 72
... profit obtained and the work performed . No incompetent person hopes , by offering a douceur in the Times , to get a permanent place in a mercantile office . But where , as under government , there is no employer's self- interest to ...
... profit obtained and the work performed . No incompetent person hopes , by offering a douceur in the Times , to get a permanent place in a mercantile office . But where , as under government , there is no employer's self- interest to ...
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... profit does , in the end , teach farmers that deep draining is good ; though it takes long to do this . Manufacturers do , ultimately , learn the most economical speed at which to work their steam - engines ; though precedent has long ...
... profit does , in the end , teach farmers that deep draining is good ; though it takes long to do this . Manufacturers do , ultimately , learn the most economical speed at which to work their steam - engines ; though precedent has long ...
Página 76
... profit elsewhere - do not continue for twenty years a burden , like the compensated officials of some abolished department of the State . Consider again how necessarily these unordained agen- cies fit themselves to their work . It is a ...
... profit elsewhere - do not continue for twenty years a burden , like the compensated officials of some abolished department of the State . Consider again how necessarily these unordained agen- cies fit themselves to their work . It is a ...
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... profit has been made on the capital over which he has command ; and according to the result , his engagement is continued , perhaps at an increased salary , or he is discharged . Under such circumstances , bribery would hardly be ...
... profit has been made on the capital over which he has command ; and according to the result , his engagement is continued , perhaps at an increased salary , or he is discharged . Under such circumstances , bribery would hardly be ...
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Página 21 - The effect of giving priority to the complement of the predicate, as well as the predicate itself, is finely displayed in the opening of " Hyperion " : " Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy
Página 20 - the bark's mast in the gale When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes." Pursuing the principle yet further, it is obvious that for producing the greatest efiect, not only should the main divisions of a sentence observe this
Página 34 - troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle." Except in the position of the verb in the first two
Página 9 - is doubtless true. Thus, too, is it with grammar. ' As Dr. Latham, condemning the usual school-drill in Lindley Murray, rightly remarks :—" Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules." Similarly, there can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon
Página 179 - No person concerned in the management of any duties or taxes created since 1692, except the commissioners of the treasury, nor any of the officers following (viz., commissioners of prizes, transports, sick and wounded, wine licenses, navy, and victualling ; 8* secretaries and receivers of prizes ; comptrollers of the army accounts ; agents of regiments ; governors of plantations, and
Página 20 - theory. Similarly with respect to the conditions under which any fact is predicated. Observe in the following example the effect of putting them last : How immense would be the stimulus to progress, were the honour now given to wealth and title given exclusively to high achievements and intrinsic worth ! And then observe the superior
Página 47 - effect. And while his work presents to the reader that variety needful. to prevent continuous exertion of the same faculties, it will also answer to the description of all highly-organized products, both of man and of nature : it will be, not a series of like parts simply placed in juxtaposition, but one whole made up of unlike parts that are mutually dependent. II