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... common people , and that the restoration of legal authority would soon be demanded , resolved to accom- modate his actions to the public opinion , and to rest his ambitious projects on a new foundation . He re- leased the prince from ...
... common people , and that the restoration of legal authority would soon be demanded , resolved to accom- modate his actions to the public opinion , and to rest his ambitious projects on a new foundation . He re- leased the prince from ...
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... common people to have books ; as none but kings , bishops , and abbots , could purchase them at that period , and for some succeeding centuries . Slavery was practised in England both before and after the coming of the Anglo - Saxons ...
... common people to have books ; as none but kings , bishops , and abbots , could purchase them at that period , and for some succeeding centuries . Slavery was practised in England both before and after the coming of the Anglo - Saxons ...
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... common use , and set up in churches . This translation made its appearance in 1538 ; and Cromwell procured a warrant from the king author- izing all his subjects to read it . Upon notice of the diversity of doctrines delivered in the ...
... common use , and set up in churches . This translation made its appearance in 1538 ; and Cromwell procured a warrant from the king author- izing all his subjects to read it . Upon notice of the diversity of doctrines delivered in the ...
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... common casks of strong ale , thirty casks of small ale , two people endeavoured to preserve their wretched lives oxen , ten wethers , ten geese , twenty hens , ten by drying the roots of herbs and converting them cheeses , one cask of ...
... common casks of strong ale , thirty casks of small ale , two people endeavoured to preserve their wretched lives oxen , ten wethers , ten geese , twenty hens , ten by drying the roots of herbs and converting them cheeses , one cask of ...
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... common pleas , and entitled The Book of Husbandry . The seventeenth century is distinguished by some important improvements in agriculture , among which are the introduction of clovers and turnips in England ; of hedges in Scotland and ...
... common pleas , and entitled The Book of Husbandry . The seventeenth century is distinguished by some important improvements in agriculture , among which are the introduction of clovers and turnips in England ; of hedges in Scotland and ...
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Page 28 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 71 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 245 - The History of the early Part of the Reign of James II, with an introductory chapter, which was intended to form a commencement of the history of the revolution of 1688.
Page 79 - Equity, then, in its true and genuine meaning, is the soul and spirit of all law: positive law is construed, and rational law is made, by it. In this, equity is synonymous, to justice; in that, to the true sense and sound interpretation of the rule.
Page 46 - ... the buying of corn or other dead victual, in any market, and selling it again in the same market, or within four miles of the place.
Page 194 - ... is to be laid. According to this they begin to dispose on the plate the larger compartments of the foliage, for which they use plain flat wire, of a larger size, and fill them up with the leaves.
Page 345 - ... present system of physics and astronomy. At the same time he tried to make use of Jupiter's satellites for the calculation of longitudes ; and though he brought nothing to perfection in this branch, he w^as the first who reflected systematically on such a method of fixing geographical longitudes.
Page 333 - In 1650, he published a Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon...
Page 202 - Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will. Mother of God ! he shall wear it on his shoulders, for I will leave him never a head to set it on.
Page 28 - ... rent lying by him, therewith to purchase a new lease, beside a fair garnish of pewter on his cupboard, with so much more in odd...