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...ng little punches in it with a pencil case, ‘commonly known to the labouring population of this country, by the name of tripe.’ The Alderman laughed, ...

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... my grandfather reported on the subject. The group contained at the time a population of 30,000 souls, and enjoyed a trade which had increased in twen...

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...arkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all ...

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...ne has yet forgotten. Not to men- tion rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of conti- nent... ...ache, a quick penetrating look, and the vi- vacity which characterises the population of Southern France. The second stranger merits a more detailed d...

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...of their commander, that Menda would be given to the flames, and the whole population put to the sword, proposed to the general to denounce themselves... ...condition being agreed to, the general proceeded to pardon the rest of the population, and to pre- vent his soldiers from pillaging the town or settin...

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...ven before Mr. Keble’s coming, begun to feel the need of a new church. The population was 700, greatly overflowing the old church, so that the childre... ...hich Mr. Keble used to call Hursley Cathedral. The place was increasing in population, and nearly two miles of wood- land and park lay between it and ... ...into a considerable village, with a school- chapel of its own, and a large population. The two farms called Hams and Boyatt border it on the southern ... ...uild on Cranbury Common, but may have been fright- ened away by increasing population. Gull (Larus canus).—Flocks of those white-breasted birds someti...

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...d it’s a prince I suppose they’ll call him: and princes don’t count in the population for more than finishing touches, like the crossing of t’s and 7... ...k jesuitry advertised as the specific balsam for an unhappy domesti- cated population treading with hard heels from desperate habit and not the slight... ...east. I’m prepared to say he’s there to represent the fair one half of the population. Your Lion, my dear sir, may have nothing in his head, but his t... ...it may within you. That it passed into the blood of England’s middle-class population, and set many heads philosophically shaking, and filled the sail... ...ssed of certain positive advantages; we had coal, iron, and an industrious population, but we were, it was to be feared, by no means a thrifty race, a...

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...ty regulated by law,” with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever... ..., af- fluence, and talents fit them to be the leaders of the sur- rounding population; their love of their country is sincere, and they are prepared t... ... by buccaneers; and the criminal courts of England originally supplied the population of Australia. The settlers who established themselves on the sho... ...t was from the middle classes that the majority of the emigrants came. The population of New England increased rapidly; and whilst the hierarchy of ra... ...an to pen- etrate into the valleys of the Mississippi, and the mass of the population very soon began to move in that direction: com- *See Appendix, G... ...ch other’s history. In this part of the American continent, therefore, the population has not experienced the influence of great names and great wealt... ...t believe that there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few uninstructed and at the same time so few learn... ... which corresponds in general to the English tithing, or town. Its average population is from two to three thousand;* so that, on the one hand, the in... ... and its inde- pendence gives to it a real importance which its extent and population may not always ensure. It is to be remembered that the affection...

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...! here come the hordes,’ sighed Adeline, shrinking a little, as the entire population, summoned by Fergus, came pouring forth to meet the advancing mo...

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...friend.” “There is not sufficient ample supply of vaccination for all this population,” said the man. “They destroyed the offeecial calf.” They won’t ... ...rawn over it? What wages would an engineer get now? Where was the swarming population of England he had read so much about? What was the rank of all t... ... them back in the lamp-room, while he dealt tickets to four or five of the population who, not contented with their own peace, thought fit to travel. ... ... trail of torn paper, and to single-stick in the evenings, till the native population, who had a lust for sport in every form, wished to know whether ...

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...lectrify; it was a small world, as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for another reason, the news traveled so slowly th... ... her pallid face up there against the sky, and tell the time of day to the populations lying within fifty miles of her and to the people in the moon, ... ...er hundreds are eaten by birds, and it is the queen’s business to keep the population up to standard —say, fifty thousand. She must always have that m...

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...peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empi...

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... and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of...

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...key to Whitman’s attitude. To give a certain unity of ideal to the average population of America - to gather their activities about some conception of... ... be central and normal, if only for the moment -the poet must portray that population as it is. Like human 68 Robert Louis Stevenson law, human poetr... ...; for every rag of his tail, he would manage to indemnify himself upon the population in the shape of food, or wine, or ringing money; and his route w...

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...ent, Koznishev said, smiling: “So, then, for the Russification of our foreign populations there is but one method—to bring up as many children as one c... ...,” he said over the soup, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch, “mere density of population alone, but in conjunction with fundamental ideas, and not by m...

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...ire with hope, are sent up annually by the most progressive portion of the population; and of these the Government takes one-third, puts them in sacks...

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...e of the French Empire was at stake—to be, or not to be. The whole citizen population seemed to be as much inspired with this thought as that other ar... ...lation seemed to be as much inspired with this thought as that other armed population standing in serried and silent ranks in the enclosed space, with...

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..., and she and Norman were standing in the porch with an orderly, religious population, blessing the unknown benefactor, who had caused the news of sal... ...bad that they should have it all their own way, and spoil the whole female population? Why, the last thing they did was to leave off reading the Praye...

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... modern sports, the perils from over-cultivation, the perils from extended population, the perils from intruding cads, the perils from 454 The Duke’s...

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...ty is another. It may be impossible to set aside selected persons from the population and say to them, “You are cowardly, weak, silly, mischievous peo... ...(+9 lbs. of clothes) and height respectively of youths of the town artisan population, for the various ages from ten to twenty-five indicated at the h... ... an apparent misleading fall in the birth-rate due to the “loading” of the population with children. Here are the sort of figures that are generally g... ...e from birth-rate and that will give the effective rate of increase of the population. Period 1846-1850 10 5 effective rate of increase ... ...ssors in the next generation a heavier task of the same sort. The assisted population would grow genera- tion by generation relatively to the assistin... ... has shown that nearly thirty per cent. at least of a typical English town population goes short of the physical necessities of life. These people are... ...It is nonsense to pretend that we shall get the fine flower of the cottage population to board pauper children; we shall induce respectable inferior p... ...ns and materials. These regu- lations would vary with the local density of population— many things are permissible in Romney marsh, for example, which... ... interest in hygienic con- ditions about them. It would also tend to force population out of districts intrinsically unhealthy into districts intrinsi...

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...f taxes and tributes; and the like. Generally, it is to be foreseen that the population of a kingdom (especially if it be not mown down by wars) do no... ... exceed the stock of the kingdom, which should maintain them. Neither is the population to be reckoned only by num ber; for a smaller number, that sp... ... and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities ... ...s to the infantry, which is the nerve of an army; and so there will be great population, and little strength. This which I speak of, hath been nowhere... ...ing of England and France; whereof England, though far less in territory and population, hath been (nevertheless) an overmatch; in regard the middle p...

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...me to the same in- duction—that of the premature vitiation of the American population—is the attitude of the Americans whom I have before me with rega...