The Lloyds of Birmingham, with Some Account of the Founding of Lloyds Bank |
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Page 109 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 6 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Page 107 - Mr. Lloyd's, where we were entertained with great hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd had been married the same year with their Majesties, and like them had been blessed with a numerous family of fine children; their numbers being exactly the same. Johnson said, " Marriage is the best state for a man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Page 112 - ... on which it is promised that the mediation of our Saviour shall be applied to us — namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance. But what man can say, that his obedience has been such, as he would approve of in another, or even in himself, upon close examination; or that his repentance has not been such as to require being repented of? No man can be sure that his obedience and repentance will obtain salvation.
Page 108 - Johnson had been with us: for it was a scene which I should have been glad to contemplate by his light. The vastness and the contrivance of some of the machinery would have " matched his mighty mind." I shall never forget Mr. Boulton's expression to me, " I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER.
Page 226 - ... properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the company's affairs according to the best of their information and the explanations given to them, and as shown by the books of the company.
Page 100 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Page 119 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Page 117 - I doubt it would be difficult to prove those deserve that character who turn Quakers. MRS. K. This severe retort, Doctor, induces me charitably to hope thou must be totally unacquainted with the principles of the people against whom thou art so exceedingly prejudiced, and that thou supposest us a set of infidels or deists.
Page 112 - Why, madam, strictly speaking, he is right. All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend to the neglect or perhaps against the interest of others: so that an old Greek said, ' He that has friends has 1K> friend.