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... reign has , for many years past , afforded proofs , in more respects than one , that , though human wisdom may not always be able to anticipate difficulties , yet , assisted by fortitude , it can succeed in terminating them in a more ...
... reign has , for many years past , afforded proofs , in more respects than one , that , though human wisdom may not always be able to anticipate difficulties , yet , assisted by fortitude , it can succeed in terminating them in a more ...
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... reign , they would have very willingly defrayed the expenses of the publication . In defect of encouragement from great men ( and even from booksellers ) I had recourse to a subscription ; and my having expected any success from such a ...
... reign , they would have very willingly defrayed the expenses of the publication . In defect of encouragement from great men ( and even from booksellers ) I had recourse to a subscription ; and my having expected any success from such a ...
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... reign trade , distant and extensive dominions ; in a word , from all those brilliant circumstances which so greatly affect the external appearance of a pow- erful society , but have no essential connexion with the real principles of it ...
... reign trade , distant and extensive dominions ; in a word , from all those brilliant circumstances which so greatly affect the external appearance of a pow- erful society , but have no essential connexion with the real principles of it ...
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... Reign of Charles VI . The word re - union expresses , in the French law , or history , the reduction of a province to an immediate de- pendence on the crown . leges , the others , long since reduced to subjection 28 DE LOLME ON.
... Reign of Charles VI . The word re - union expresses , in the French law , or history , the reduction of a province to an immediate de- pendence on the crown . leges , the others , long since reduced to subjection 28 DE LOLME ON.
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... reign of Henry the First , about forty years after the conquest , that we see the above causes begin to operate . This prince , having ascend- ed the throne to the exclusion of his elder brother , was sensible that he had no other means ...
... reign of Henry the First , about forty years after the conquest , that we see the above causes begin to operate . This prince , having ascend- ed the throne to the exclusion of his elder brother , was sensible that he had no other means ...
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Page 86 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 160 - ... it the first week of the next term, or the first day of the next session of oyer and terminer...
Page 82 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 35 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terrae.
Page 45 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 82 - The archbishop or bishop shall say. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 66 - Norman-French (84); a badge, it must be owned, (now the only one remaining), of conquest; and which one could wish to see fall into total oblivion, unless it be reserved as a solemn memento to remind us that our liberties are mortal, having once been destroyed by a foreign force.
Page 159 - That officers and keepers neglecting to make due returns, or not delivering to the prisoner or his agent within six hours after demand a copy of the warrant of commitment, or shifting the custody of...
Page 82 - Power maintain the Laws of God, the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by Law ? and will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm, and to the Churches committed to their Charge, all such Rights and Privileges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? King and Queen : All this I promise to do.
Page 82 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.