To such a settlement no envoy could be induced to consent, unless chargeable with corruption or incompetence.
In taking this action, the Chinese were notchargeable with a breach of faith; but the allies, feeling insulted at having the door shut in their faces, decided to force it open.
The fact that numerous rates were chargeable for one and the same letter in respect of its transmission within the same country thus naturally made the rates charged for transmission abroad likewise numerous.
The duty was chargeable according to the number of sheets; and in the case of some leading newspapers, such as The Times and the Illustrated London News, amounted to 1-1/2d.
Foreign rates were often built up by the addition of a rate for the transmission abroad to the ordinary rate chargeable for the inland transmission.
They were made chargeable according to weight, and for transmission to any port in the colonies were fixed generally at 1s.
Postage was, of course, chargeable on the total journey of the letter.
The conditions under which postal business is conducted render it impossible to earmark the expenses properly chargeable to the parcel post, since expenses are for the most part incurred jointly.
Letters for Constantinople and the Levant ordinarily went through the French and Austrian administrations and werechargeable at the then high foreign rates of postage.
Whatever faults may be chargeable on his third novel or romance proper, they include no more childishness than he displayed throughout his life, and not nearly so much as he often did later.
No such half-heartedness shall bechargeable on what is going to be said under the last category, which, in a way, allies itself to the first.
B] It would be remarkable, indeed, if they were chargeable with a defect so great and glaring.
The failure in the crops is not in the slightest degree chargeableto a deficiency of labor.
And how few can be brought to admit, that whatever abuses may prevail nobody knows where or how, any such thing is chargeable upon them!
Every thing hangs on the inquiry whether the emancipated or their former masters are chargeable with whatever there is of ruin in the "fine island" of Jamaica.
This practice of attempting to put the boldest and most flagrant sins under the wing and sanction of the Bible, is chargeable on others as well as on the advocates of slavery.
Fourth, every person who knows what slavery is, and does not raise his voice against this crying sin, but by silence gives consent to its continuance, is chargeable with guilt in the sight of God.
We contend that the slaveholding power is properly chargeable with all the riots and disorders which take place on account of slavery.
The slaveholder may eagerly and loudly deny, that any such thing is chargeable upon him.
It would be remarkable, indeed, if they werechargeable with a defect so great and glaring.
The angry feelings which in some degree exist between the citizens of the free and slaveholding States, on account of slavery, are, in many cases, properly chargeable to those who defend and support slavery.
A] The slaveholder may eagerly and loudly deny, that any such thing is chargeable upon him.
Had there been no slavery in the District, this outrage would not have been committed; and the murders, chargeable on the bloodiest of all bloody institutions, would have been one less than they now are.
Our government stands first chargeable for allowing slavery to exist, under its own jurisdiction.
This is waste, but is the natural consequence of war, chargeable on those who caused the war.
This, too, is an expense not chargeable to us, but to those who made the war; and generally war is destruction and nothing else.
The Roman historians ascribe to him acts of cruelty no worse than their own generals were chargeable with: while nothing of the kind is related by either Polybius, or Plutarch.
But while in many things we are chargeable with carelessness, we are most so in choosing and keeping our friends.
By these means the public credit is totally ruined, and the government becomes chargeable with flagrant injustice.
The only delay therefore with which I can be chargeable must be in the signing of them, and upon that subject I shall say nothing.
Moneys advanced to any particular State are not chargeable to the United States.
You are too well acquainted with mercantile business, not to know what, how, and when commissions are chargeable on a transaction.
But experience had taught me caution, and the event has shown, that if I had made the promise, I should now have been chargeable with falsehood.
It is my duty to trespass one moment longer on your Excellency's patience, while I take the liberty to observe, that I can by no means consider purchases made for any particular State in the Union as properly chargeable to the United States.
Tool Room, similar work chargeable to this department, such as boxes or cases for special tools, and work not entrusted to a carpenter.
A few of the articles which come within the class chargeable to current expenses, are: 1.
Such employees as work on the regular production orders, and on work properly chargeable to them, will in addition to the Day Time card use a Job Time card, of the form shown in Fig.
The time-keeper goes over his notes, and picks out the items that are chargeable to drilling.
A blacksmith's time, part of which is spent in sharpening drills, need not be all chargeable to drilling, because he may spend a good deal of time in repairing the steam shovel or fixing hand tools, etc.
As I have no control upon, nor influence with, the people in Boston who may oppose the landing of the teas, I cannot be chargeable with their conduct.
American duty to be chargeable on the teas besides, & we to be free from the risk of fire or any other accident that may occur before the delivery of the tea.
Sara has acted under my compulsions most of her life, so most of what you'd call her sins are chargeable to me instead.
And acts committed under compulsion are chargeable to the compellor, not the compelled.
Munich society is perhaps chargeable with being a little stiff and exclusive.
New England, he affirms, hath been nearly as chargeable to him and his friends: he never got a shilling but it cost him a pound.
But when the duty has once been paid on property passing under a settlement, the property does not again become chargeable until it passes on the death of a person who is or has been competent to dispose of it.
When the estate duty has been paid no further duty is chargeable on property comprised in the estate which passes to lineal relations of the deceased.
His Lying had like to have involved me in a Contract that would have been very chargeable and to no manner of purpose, as he has ordered Matters.
Proportion borne by operating expenses to gross revenue, after excluding from operating expenses all expenses properly chargeable to capital account.
Charged with wages of engineer and assistants, wages of shipping clerk and assistants, wages of receiving and stock clerks, wages of all general laborers whose time is not chargeable to a specific department.
I appeal to the candor and common sense of the reader, if this grievous persecution be not justly chargeable to the Society?
Most of the criminal offences committed in the southern States are chargeable to them, and their influence over the slaves is pernicious and alarming.
