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... amount to about 500,000 . I grant you that in a consumption of 290,000 tons of sugar among 20,000,000 of people , the consump- tion of each person amounts to between 231b , and 24lb . a head . Whether or not the unemployed manufacturers ...
... amount to about 500,000 . I grant you that in a consumption of 290,000 tons of sugar among 20,000,000 of people , the consump- tion of each person amounts to between 231b , and 24lb . a head . Whether or not the unemployed manufacturers ...
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... amount of 1,000,000 tons , and of molasses and rum in due pro- portion . So that I do not exaggerate at all when I say , that the abolition of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery - of the mild form of slavery that existed in ...
... amount of 1,000,000 tons , and of molasses and rum in due pro- portion . So that I do not exaggerate at all when I say , that the abolition of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery - of the mild form of slavery that existed in ...
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... amount per annum to 2,153,5027 . , being an increase on the annual charge amounting to 1,435,7651 .; add to this loss the decreased value of produce , 786,3151 .; and we have a loss to the planter , through increased wages of labour ...
... amount per annum to 2,153,5027 . , being an increase on the annual charge amounting to 1,435,7651 .; add to this loss the decreased value of produce , 786,3151 .; and we have a loss to the planter , through increased wages of labour ...
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... amount of compensation awarded to them at the time of the abolition of sla- very , and has stated also the greater lib- erality which this country has shown in giving compensation for slaves in other cases . Indeed , the peculiar claim ...
... amount of compensation awarded to them at the time of the abolition of sla- very , and has stated also the greater lib- erality which this country has shown in giving compensation for slaves in other cases . Indeed , the peculiar claim ...
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... amount- of duties ; he thought that the protection ed to 72,364 cwt . , and that used in distil- should have been higher and for a shorter lation to 20,632 , making together 92,996 period ; but he made no objection to the cwt . , being ...
... amount- of duties ; he thought that the protection ed to 72,364 cwt . , and that used in distil- should have been higher and for a shorter lation to 20,632 , making together 92,996 period ; but he made no objection to the cwt . , being ...
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Page 235 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Page 525 - I, AB , do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty, Queen Victoria...
Page 3 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 165 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 281 - In whomsoever these things are, the Church doth acknowledge them for her children; them only she holdeth for aliens and strangers, in whom these things are not found. For want of these it is, that Saracens, Jews, and Infidels are excluded out of the bounds of the Church. Others we may not deny to be of the visible Church, as long as these things are not wanting in them. For apparent it is, that all men are of necessity either Christians or not Christians.
Page 521 - But for the Jews I see no plea of justice whatever ; they are voluntary strangers here, and have no claim to become citizens, but by conforming to our moral law, which is the Gospel.
Page 747 - Ireland, have been settled and established by law ; be it therefore enacted, that if any person, after the commencement of this act, other than the person thereunto authorized by law, shall assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop of any province, bishop of any bishopric, or dean of any deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.
Page 281 - Is it then possible, that the selfsame men should belong both to the synagogue of Satan and to the Church of Jesus Christ ? Unto that Church which is his mystical body, not possible ; because that body consisteth of none but only true Israelites, true sons of Abraham, true servants and saints of God. Howbeit of the visible body and Church of Jesus Christ...
Page 1029 - Quebec. The case of this ship was not one of peculiar misconduct; on the contrary, I have the strongest reason to know, from information which I have received from very many emigrants, well known to me, who came over this year in different vessels, that this ship was better regulated and more comfortable than many.
Page 273 - England, reason will not long be baffled, and truth, in fulfilment of its great aphorism, will at last prevail. I will assume that the exclusion from this House is a great privation, and I proceed to consider whether it be not a great wrong. Nothing but necessity could afford its justification; and of this plea we should be taught, by a phrase which has almost grown proverbial, to beware. Cardinal Caraffa relied upon necessity when he founded that celebrated tribunal whose practices are denounced...