 | 1855 - 622 pages
...unambitious and the indolent or incapable that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open...or physical infirmities unfit for active exertions, arc placed in the civil service, where they may obtain an honourable livelihood with little labour... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1855 - 36 pages
...but it is for the unambitious, the indolent or the incapable. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open...the competition of their contemporaries, and those whose indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unfit them for active exertions, are placed... | |
 | The London Quarterly VOL.XXVII October 1866 and January,1867 - 1867 - 554 pages
...warrant an expectation that they would succeed in the open professions where they would have had to encounter the competition of their contemporaries,...whom indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unfitted for active exertions, should be placed in a profession, which would afford an honourable livelihood,... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 524 pages
...and the indolent or incapable 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 the competition of their cotemporaries, and those whose indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unfit them for active... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 502 pages
...and the indolent or incapable 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 the competition of their cotemporaries, and those whose indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unfit them for active... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1890 - 414 pages
...whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, . . . and those whom indolence of temperament or physical...obtain an honourable livelihood with little labour and no risk." &? How appointments were conferred, and what manner of life the officials led, may be gathered... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1903 - 920 pages
...that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they willsnccoetl in the open professions where they must encounter...honourable livelihood with little labour and with no risk." To-day the Civil Service was one of the finest in the world. The men in it were largely drawn from... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 860 pages
...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 open...whom indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unlit for active exertion, are placed in the civil service." The effect on the constituencies was even... | |
 | 1919 - 878 pages
...unambitious and the indolent or incapable that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open...temperament or physical infirmities unfit for active exertion, are placed in the civil service." The effect on the constituencies was even worse. Sir Charles... | |
 | Cecil Delisle Burns - 1921 - 94 pages
...those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions and those whom indolence of temperament or physical...obtain an honourable livelihood with little labour and no risk.' That was written in 1853 ; and in 186o a Select Committee reported that in the office of... | |
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Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly sought after, but it is for the unambitious, and the indolent or incapable, that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions,... 
