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| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 520 pages
...tendency. Sir James Stephen says : " The majority of the members of the colonial department, in my time, possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in...effective performance of their appropriate functions." Mr. Chadwick says, that he has been assured that, under a particular commission, " out of eighty clerks... | |
| Civil service - 1855 - 494 pages
...Public Offices—described by Sir James Stephen as forming the majority of the Colonial Department—who possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in...for the effective performance of their appropriate duties, might take their departure without material detriment to the Service. They, however, are victims... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - Civil service - 1855 - 36 pages
...eminent, the capable, and the oí TroAAoí — says of the latter, who form quite the majority: "they possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in...or the habits of men of business, or the industry, zeal, or knowledge required for the effective performance of their functions. They usually came direct... | |
| Scotland - 1855 - 808 pages
...Department, in my time, possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in a degree incredibly low, cither 7 ' t p b]\ۅ Jv * Q{ SQ+ S ft *z g:j MnD ... W :wm j - f UE m< <A s " P J M * " E w These were, tcilhout exception, men who had been appointed to gratify the political, the domestic,... | |
| England - 1855 - 812 pages
...of the third class — that is, the majority of the members of the Colonial Department, in my time, possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in a degree incredibly low, either the talents or the habits of men of business, or the industry, the zeal, or... | |
| 1855 - 622 pages
...third class — that is, the majority of the members of the Colonial Detriment, in my time, postessed only in a low degree, and some of them in a degree incredibly low, either the talents or the habits of men of business, or tiie industry, the zeal, or... | |
| Ireland - 1856 - 1492 pages
...well-ascertained fitness. • * • * The third class, greatly exceeding in number the two other classes united, possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in...degree almost incredibly low, either the talents or habits of men of business, or the industry, zeal, or knowledge required for the effective performanco... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1856 - 392 pages
...minister. The members of the third class, that is, the majority of the Colonial Department in my time, possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in a degree almost incredibly low, cither the talents or the habits of men of business, or the industry, the zeal, or the knowledge required... | |
| George Charles Brodrick - Great Britain - 1879 - 620 pages
...which he was so thoroughly conversant, and tells us that " the majority of its members in his time possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in...effective performance of their appropriate functions," and he adds that the men who composed this majority " were, without exception, men who had been appointed... | |
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