A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volumen2C. Knight, 1839 |
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... proceeding of this sort , a trifling advantage on a particular class ; but it is obvious that what is gained by them must be made at the expense of some other class , whose business , from its being naturally adapted to the country , is ...
... proceeding of this sort , a trifling advantage on a particular class ; but it is obvious that what is gained by them must be made at the expense of some other class , whose business , from its being naturally adapted to the country , is ...
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... proceedings of those of a contrary character . It is the latter class , however , that it is especially necessary to look after ; and it is needless to say that any system that permits notes to be issued without let or hindrance by ...
... proceedings of those of a contrary character . It is the latter class , however , that it is especially necessary to look after ; and it is needless to say that any system that permits notes to be issued without let or hindrance by ...
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... proceedings to the Commis- sioners of Land Revenue , who should be authorised to appoint engineers to examine into the state of the roads , and in some degree to control the management of the different trusts . The carrying of some such ...
... proceedings to the Commis- sioners of Land Revenue , who should be authorised to appoint engineers to examine into the state of the roads , and in some degree to control the management of the different trusts . The carrying of some such ...
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... proceedings , at which he had taken offence , and at the same time boldly and ex- plicitly asserting their rights and privileges , with a force of language and a power of reasoning that evince it to have been the work of no ordinary ...
... proceedings , at which he had taken offence , and at the same time boldly and ex- plicitly asserting their rights and privileges , with a force of language and a power of reasoning that evince it to have been the work of no ordinary ...
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... proceedings in Par- liament , ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required , nor excessive fines , nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted . 11 ...
... proceedings in Par- liament , ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required , nor excessive fines , nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted . 11 ...
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Página 87 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 685 - The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings. Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale, And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Página 84 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 4 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 124 - 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?
Página 84 - 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.
Página 124 - 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 the 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: All this I promise to do.
Página 263 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Página 298 - I protest before God and your lordships, that I profess and allow with my heart the true religion presently professed within this realm, and authorised by the laws thereof ; I shall abide thereat, and defend the same to my life's end, renouncing the Roman religion called papistry.
Página 170 - Not found : and then the party is discharged without farther answer. But a fresh bill may afterwards be preferred to a subsequent grand jury. If they are satisfied of the truth of the accusation, they then endone upon it, A true bill ; anciently, Billa vera.