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... head resting on a pillow , or on the elbow , supported by a pillow . This practice was not permitted among soldiers , children , and servants ; nor was it known until luxury had corrupted manners . Their couches were called ACCUBITA ...
... head resting on a pillow , or on the elbow , supported by a pillow . This practice was not permitted among soldiers , children , and servants ; nor was it known until luxury had corrupted manners . Their couches were called ACCUBITA ...
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... head ; the vice - admiral at the fore - top - mast head ; and the rear - ad- miral , at the mizen - top - mast head . - The LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN , called in some ancient records , Capitaneus Marinorum , is judge or ...
... head ; the vice - admiral at the fore - top - mast head ; and the rear - ad- miral , at the mizen - top - mast head . - The LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN , called in some ancient records , Capitaneus Marinorum , is judge or ...
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... head - piece , a cuirass and tasses ; but all of them made light . Lastly , the horses themselves had their armour , wherewith to cover the head and neck . Of all this furniture of war , scarcely any thing is now retained except the ...
... head - piece , a cuirass and tasses ; but all of them made light . Lastly , the horses themselves had their armour , wherewith to cover the head and neck . Of all this furniture of war , scarcely any thing is now retained except the ...
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... head at each end ; used for destroying the masts and rigging in naval combat . BARTER , the exchanging of one com- modity for another , the trucking of wares for wares , among merchants . Barter was the original and natural way of ...
... head at each end ; used for destroying the masts and rigging in naval combat . BARTER , the exchanging of one com- modity for another , the trucking of wares for wares , among merchants . Barter was the original and natural way of ...
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... head of iron , re- sembling that of a ram ; from the butting of which animal the idea was doubtless de- rived . This being equally balanced , and furnished with a number of ropes , at the extremity opposite to the ram's head , a great ...
... head of iron , re- sembling that of a ram ; from the butting of which animal the idea was doubtless de- rived . This being equally balanced , and furnished with a number of ropes , at the extremity opposite to the ram's head , a great ...
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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.