The Reform of the House of Lords: With a Criticism of the Report of the Select Committee of 2nd December, 1908MacLehose and Sons, 1909 - 136 pages |
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Page 13 - Counter-Rats." 113. CORY AT (Thomas). — Coryats Crudities hastily gobled up in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia comonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling Members of this Kingdome (this title is on an engraved frontispiece, by W.
Page 12 - FRS, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow, and JOHN YULE MACKAY, MD, CM, Professor of Anatomy in University College, Dundee. Profusely illustrated. Medium 8vo. 28s. nett. CLELAND and MACKAY— A DIRECTORY FOR THE DISSECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY.
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Page 21 - House should be so restricted by law as to secure that within the limits of a single Parliament the final decision of the Commons shall prevail.
Page 12 - ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN BODY, for the use of Students of Medicine and Science. By JOHN CLELAND, MD, LL.D., D.Sc., FRS, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow, and JOHN YULE MACKAY, MD, LL.D., Professor of Anatomy in University College, Dundee.
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Page 19 - My Lords, if I know anything of the constitutional value of this House, it is to interpose a salutary obstacle to rash and inconsiderate legislation ; it is to protect the people from the consequences of their own imprudence. It never has been the course of this House to resist a continued and deliberately formed public opinion ; your Lordships always have bowed, and always will bow, to the expression of such an opinion ; but it is yours to check hasty legislation, leading to irreparable evils...
Page 10 - CONTENTS— The Unity of the Sciences — The Progressiveness of the Sciences — Erasmus — Galileo— The Scientific Character of Bacon — David Hume— Bishop Butler and his Theology— The Study of History— The Science of History — The...
Page 10 - CONTENTS : — The Unity of the Sciences. The Progressiveness of the Sciences. Erasmus. Galileo. The Scientific Character of Bacon. David Hume. Bishop Butler and his Theology. The Study of History. The Science of History. The Study of Art. The Progressiveness of Art. The Art of Public Speaking. The Personal Element in Teaching. General and Professional Education. "The addresses discuss various high themes anil give evidence at every turn of courage of conviction and luminous understanding of the...