 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 956 pages
...more than 100 acres of ground, and to be rewarded with over I3,ooo/. in prizes. THE ELECTRIC LIGHT THE Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the value of the electric light has completed its labours and has issued its report. There is no doubt... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1881 - 188 pages
...have sprung from the maxim of the Roman law, qui/acitper alium facAt per se; (c) but the report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the employers' liability for injuries to servants rejects this explanation as " inapplicable to cases where... | |
 | Richard Meade - 1882 - 970 pages
...Total materials . . 980,240 4 16 15 20 Advancing to the year 1872, when information was obtained by the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the causes leading to the extravagantly high price of coal ruling at that period, the following figures... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1882 - 726 pages
...and a time when the British Government was raising enormous loans. With a view to the assistance of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject of Banks of Issue, the amounts cleared were taken daily during 1839. The total for the year... | |
 | 1887 - 598 pages
...Uiary, vol. xiii., 6. Londo«. 19 Apr., 1752. Dr. Mead has a printed pamphlet, being the report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the occasion of the fire of London, wherein it most evidently appears that the papists22 were the perpetrators... | |
 | Samuel Halkett, John Laing - 1885 - 446 pages
...Nicholas Harris NICOLAS.] 16 vols. 1820-8. Octavo. [W.] RETURN from the Society of Lincoln's Inn to the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the Public Records of the kingdom. [By the late Lord GI.ENBERVIE.] 1800. [W., Martin's Cat.]... | |
 | Samuel Halkett, John Laing - 1885 - 450 pages
...Sir Nicholas Harris NICOLAS.] 16 vols. 182o-8. Octavo. RETURN from the Society of Lincoln's Inn to the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the Public Records of the kingdom. [By the late Lord GLENBERVIE.] 18oo. [W., Martin's Cat.}... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 1886 - 246 pages
...the assistance of the unfortunate garrison. This is the evidence of John Cooke, who was at that time secretary to the Governor and Council of Calcutta, in the first report of the Committee of the House of Commons in 1772. Ormeremarks: — " Never, perhaps, was such an opportunity for performing an heroic... | |
 | 1887 - 594 pages
...— Diary, vol. xiii., 6. London. 19 Apr., 1752. Dr. Mead has a printed pamphlet, being the report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the occasion of the fire of London, wherein it most evidently appears that the papists2'-' were the perpetrators... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 242 pages
...the assistance of the unfortunate garrison. This is the evidence of ] ohn Cooke, who was at that time secretary to the Governor and Council of Calcutta, in the first report of the Committee of the House of Commons in 1772. Orme remarks: — "Never, perhaps, was such an opportunity for performing an heroic... | |
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Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities. 
