The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Representation, Municipal and Corporate Bodies, with a Précis of the House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come

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Effingham Wilson, 1832 - 683 halaman

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Church of England without Poor Clergy unless it be curates
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RAPACITY OF THE CLERGY EXEMPLIFIED
64
Conduct of the clergy in respect of tithe compositions
71
Strange mode of ordaining priests
79
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85
Droits of the crown and admiralty
87
Rights of layimpropriators examined
91
Valuation of Sees and Dignities in the Kings Book
131
CHAPTER III
137
Wealth bequeathed to their families by the bishops
142
Statement of sums to be paid in lieu of tithes in several parishes
148
Estimate of the revenues of the Protestant establishment
154
Nonresidence of bishops and parochial clergy
160
Proportion of Roman Catholics and Protestants
166
Return of promotions in the Irish church
172
Crisis of the Irish church at the close of 1831
179
Origin and history of the crown lands
186
Amount and appropriation of landed revenues
192
Expended in parliamentary jobbingBurkes pension
203
Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown
210
Remarks on the Whig civil list
221
Policy and character of the two late reigns
228
Peculiar death of Geo IV and his chief counsellors
234
PRIVY COUNCILDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSAND
244
Consular establishments
250
Antiproperty theories of Robert Owen and St Simon
272
LAW AND COURTS OF
286
A lawyers library described
290
Legislation an afterdinner amusement of the house of commons
296
Defects in agreements for leases and conveyances
308
Law of debtor and creditor
315
Oppressions under the exciselaws
321
Official returns illustrative of law and courts of law
329
Objects of the parliamentary wars waged since 1688
335
Conclusions on disastrous policy of the Boroughgovernment
342
Irresponsible power of the Times newspaper
391
Indian wars and territorial acquisitions
401
Territorial revenues of India
412
press
420
Sources of Bank profits and their enormous amount
425
Thoughts on a New Bank of England
443
Account of distribution of profits among proprietors
449
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Rise and downfal of MerchantTailors Company of Bristol
458
CORPORATIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS
464
Corporation of Preston
471
Corporation of Leeds
474
Salaries and number of persons employed in the public offices
480
ALPHABETIC LIST OF PLACEMEN PENSIONERS SINECURISTS
505
General statement of annual expenditure of the country in salaries
518
Addendum to Place and Pension list
589
Revolution of 1688 did not concede to the industrious orders their
595
Principles which ought to determine the elective qualification
601
Constitutional changes valueless in themselves
606
Population houses c of boroughs not disfranchised
612
Number of parliaments held in each reign
621
Tyburn or Tartarus the needful moral restraint of some persons
622
CHAPTER XIII
627
Return of cities and towns with a population exceeding
636
Returns of Army and Navy halfpay and retired allowances
640
Number of public creditors and amount of their dividends
642
Principles on which government has been carried on by Tory admi
643
House of Lords origin and character of
644
A class of politicians with one idea
645
Borough lords and their Representatives
646
Ecclesiastical Patronage of each of the Nobility and the value of Rectories and Vicarages in their gift
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Return of lay and clerical magistrates
669
Commissioners of sewers institution of and abuses in their administration
670
Progress of Population in Great Britain
672
Classification of 965 placemen receiving 2161927 per annum
679

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Halaman 76 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Halaman 292 - ... shall be understood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Halaman 365 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Halaman 2 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Halaman 366 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Halaman 77 - The Body and Blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Halaman 76 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them ? Answ.
Halaman 291 - Statute shall be understood to include several Matters as well as One Matter, and several Persons as well as One Person, and Females as well as Males, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction...
Halaman 366 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists, what is called, the equality or inequality of taxation.

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