| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...qualifications would rapidly rise to distinction and public eminence. Such, however, is by no means the case. Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| 1855 - 622 pages
...qualifications, would rapidly rise to distinction and public eminence. Such, however, is by no means the case. Admission into the civil service is indeed eagerly...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| 1855 - 494 pages
...qualifications would rapidly rise to distinction and public eminence. Such, however, is by no means the case. Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly...but it is for the unambitious, and the indolent or Nature of its incapable, that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities inducements. ^ Q nQ t warran... | |
| Great Britain. Civil Service Commission - 1859 - 470 pages
...qualifications would rapidly rise to distinction and public eminence. Such, however, is by no means the case. Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| The London Quarterly VOL.XXVII October 1866 and January,1867 - 1867 - 554 pages
...the general tone of its nominees. The Commissioners of 1853 observe, that " admission into it (the service) is indeed eagerly sought after; but it is for the unambitious, the indolent, and the incapable, that it is chiefly desired." It was but natural that those whose abilities... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - 416 pages
...qualifications would rapidly rise to distinction and public eminence. Such, however, is by no means the case. Admission into the civil service is indeed eagerly...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 502 pages
...would assert in a sweeping way that the plan was complicated, expensive, impracticable, and so forth."1 Such views prevailed, and the original plan was changed....that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant the expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 504 pages
...decided upon was an inquiry into the exact condition of the public service. Sir Stafford Northeote (the present Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Sir...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant the expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1880 - 1266 pages
...iiu|iiiry and a report. They submitted their report in November of the same year. I have no space todo justice to this able document, but a few sentences...spirit and some of the abuses of patronage for which it a remedy. Admission into the civil service is indeed eagerly »ought after, but it is for the unambitious... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 860 pages
...described by Sir Charles Trevelyan and Sir Stafford Northcotc (Report on the Civil Service, 1854): "Admission into the civil service is indeed eagerly...unambitious and the indolent or incapable that it i* chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the... | |
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