Civil service examinations. An introduction to the writing of précis or digests. [With] Key

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Pàgina 90 - I have therefore to request that you will have the goodness to furnish me, at your earliest convenience, with an explanation on this point, for the information of her Majesty's law officers.
Pàgina 40 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Pàgina 125 - I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Pàgina 103 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor; in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt.
Pàgina 32 - Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather how to think, than what to think ; rather to improve our minds so as to enable us to think -for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other mien.
Pàgina 150 - China, and I am to request that, in laying the same before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, you will state that...
Pàgina 34 - Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our minds ; but she never intended it should be made the principal, much less the sole, object of their application. The true and proper object of this application is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any study, that tends neither...
Pàgina 85 - I am directed by the Poor Law Board to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, in which you...
Pàgina 95 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, enclosing a copy of a letter from Mr.
Pàgina 8 - A POCKET DICTIONARY OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES ; being a careful abridgment of the...

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