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... death , and , as it is supposed , by the sixth œcumenical council in 680. C.'s works are very numerous , and consist of , 1st , Homilies , on parts of Scripture and points of doctrine ; 2d , Commentaries , on the whole Bible ( part of ...
... death , and , as it is supposed , by the sixth œcumenical council in 680. C.'s works are very numerous , and consist of , 1st , Homilies , on parts of Scripture and points of doctrine ; 2d , Commentaries , on the whole Bible ( part of ...
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... death to leave Rome , and went to reside in Thessalonica ( 58 B. C. ) . A formal edict of banishment was pro- nounced against him , but he was recalled from exile in about 16 months , and on his return to Rome was received with great ...
... death to leave Rome , and went to reside in Thessalonica ( 58 B. C. ) . A formal edict of banishment was pro- nounced against him , but he was recalled from exile in about 16 months , and on his return to Rome was received with great ...
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... death with greater fortitude than he had supported many of the untoward incidents of his life . Desiring his attend- ants to forbear resistance , he stretched forward in the litter , and offered his neck to the sword of his executioners ...
... death with greater fortitude than he had supported many of the untoward incidents of his life . Desiring his attend- ants to forbear resistance , he stretched forward in the litter , and offered his neck to the sword of his executioners ...
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... death in 1758 , his library was sold to a Mr Yair , whose widow carried it on till 1780 , when it was bought by Mr James Sibbald , an ingenious inquirer into Scottish literary antiquities . Sibbald lived some years as a literary man in ...
... death in 1758 , his library was sold to a Mr Yair , whose widow carried it on till 1780 , when it was bought by Mr James Sibbald , an ingenious inquirer into Scottish literary antiquities . Sibbald lived some years as a literary man in ...
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... DEATH . Death , in a legal point of view , is either natural or civil : the former being the cessation both of physical life and of the legal rights which attach to it ; the latter , the cessation of the legal rights whilst the physical ...
... DEATH . Death , in a legal point of view , is either natural or civil : the former being the cessation both of physical life and of the legal rights which attach to it ; the latter , the cessation of the legal rights whilst the physical ...
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Page 251 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England and Ireland, and to the churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do, or shall appertain to them, or any of them? Queen. — All this I promise to do.
Page 170 - That all actions and proceedings, which before the passing of this Act might have been brought in any of her majesty's superior courts of record, where the plaintiff dwells more than twenty miles from the defendant,— or where the cause of action did not arise wholly or in some material point within the jurisdiction of the court within which the defendant dwells or carries on his business at the time of the action brought...
Page 288 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaueness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 144 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5. Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
Page 144 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 288 - Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues ; and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.
Page 310 - And for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity...
Page 149 - Laws, 37, that, in the silence of any positive rule, affirming or denying or restraining the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless they are repugnant to its policy, or prejudicial to its interests.
Page 56 - ... monarch and the parliament, and as such beyond the control of parliament during the life of the sovereign, was settled by 1 and 2 Viet.
Page 157 - To make the comprehensibility of a datum of consciousness the criterion of its truth would be, indeed, the climax of absurdity. For the primary data of consciousness as themselves the conditions under which all else is comprehended, are necessarily themselves incomprehensible. We know, and can know only, that they are, not how they can be.