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... hand , and the shoes called pedales , on his feet ; but at present , it is only a simple be- nediction . It was because certain ab- bots and priors in England , in right of their monasteries , held lands of the crown , for which they ...
... hand , and the shoes called pedales , on his feet ; but at present , it is only a simple be- nediction . It was because certain ab- bots and priors in England , in right of their monasteries , held lands of the crown , for which they ...
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... hand to the mouth , and gently applying it to the lips ; also , in ge- neral , any outward sign of worship , by kissing the hand or feet , walking barefoot , or the like . Among the Jews , adoration consisted in kissing the hands ...
... hand to the mouth , and gently applying it to the lips ; also , in ge- neral , any outward sign of worship , by kissing the hand or feet , walking barefoot , or the like . Among the Jews , adoration consisted in kissing the hands ...
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... hands with equal facility , and for the same purposes that the generality of people do their right hands . In law , a ... hand , and a rope about their neck , into a church or a court , to beg pardon of God , the court , and the injured ...
... hands with equal facility , and for the same purposes that the generality of people do their right hands . In law , a ... hand , and a rope about their neck , into a church or a court , to beg pardon of God , the court , and the injured ...
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... hands of religious persons , being usually called an impropriation in the hands of the laity . APPROVER , in law , one ... hand . Thus a horse has no appui , when he cannot suffer the bit to bear even slightly upon the parts of the mouth ...
... hands of religious persons , being usually called an impropriation in the hands of the laity . APPROVER , in law , one ... hand . Thus a horse has no appui , when he cannot suffer the bit to bear even slightly upon the parts of the mouth ...
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... hand of one of greater value , their values are to be added , thus XVI stand for sixteen , and MDCCCXXXIX for the date of the year 1839. But when a numeral letter is placed before , or on the left hand of one of greater value , the ...
... hand of one of greater value , their values are to be added , thus XVI stand for sixteen , and MDCCCXXXIX for the date of the year 1839. But when a numeral letter is placed before , or on the left hand of one of greater value , the ...
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Page 163 - 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 163 - 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.
Page 163 - 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?
Page 248 - 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 404 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 275 - In the reciprocal services of lord and vassal there was ample scope for every magnanimous and disinterested energy. The heart of man, when placed in circumstances which have a tendency to excite them, will seldom be deficient in such sentiments.
Page 404 - They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks...
Page 167 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Page 257 - I say, then, that we have the knowledge of our own existence by intuition; of the existence of God by demonstration; and of other things by sensation.
Page 315 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curve line, called the Circumference, which is every where equidistant from a certain point within, called its Centre.