Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Times declares that there is, perhaps, a trifle of British arrogance in the remark of Lord Coleridge to the students of Yale, that "Yale, in its general air, surroundings and curriculum, reminded him very much of Eton...
...brought it into notice in Paris, in 1778. He claimed that he could cure all diseases by stroking the patient with his hands. His theory was that there was a passage of a certain fluid from one person to another, but it was disproved in 1840, by a celebrated British surgeon, who showed that a mesmeric state could be produced without contact of persons. Hypnotism, or artificial somnambulism, has now attained a scientific recognition. It is the mesmeric trance in which the so-called spiritualistic phenomena arise...
...16th of March there will be an annual eclipse of the sun, visible in the United States and British America...
...poorest and humblest men in the country a fair chance of filling places in the government service, which had previously been reserved for the younger sons of the gentry with such rigor that John Bright once called that service "a vast system of out-door relief for the British aristocracy." Indeed, it was said that "in England the opening of the civil and military service, in its influence upon the national education, was equivalent to a hundred thousand scholarships and exhibitions of the most valuable kind...
...completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant. What is the effect of living under a rigid constitution ? In America the constitution...