A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - Great Britain |
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... and bringing together every variety of useful and desirable articles in shops and warehouses , individuals are able , without difficulty or loss of time , VOL . II . B 7 to supply themselves with whatever they want . Were the.
... and bringing together every variety of useful and desirable articles in shops and warehouses , individuals are able , without difficulty or loss of time , VOL . II . B 7 to supply themselves with whatever they want . Were the.
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... individual had produced a quantity of wheat , of cloth , or of shoes , he would be obliged to abandon his peculiar occupation , and to endeavour , first to dispose of his produce , and next , to find out the various individuals ...
... individual had produced a quantity of wheat , of cloth , or of shoes , he would be obliged to abandon his peculiar occupation , and to endeavour , first to dispose of his produce , and next , to find out the various individuals ...
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... individuals in matters of this sort may always be safely left to be determined by their own prudence and sagacity . We have the very best security - the plain and obvious interest of the parties - that they will , speaking generally ...
... individuals in matters of this sort may always be safely left to be determined by their own prudence and sagacity . We have the very best security - the plain and obvious interest of the parties - that they will , speaking generally ...
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... individuals to withdraw from really advantageous businesses to engage in those that cannot be prosecuted without great national loss , and which must be abandoned the moment the prohibition ceases to be enforced . " The natural ...
... individuals to withdraw from really advantageous businesses to engage in those that cannot be prosecuted without great national loss , and which must be abandoned the moment the prohibition ceases to be enforced . " The natural ...
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... individuals of the same country with each other . In countries like France , where octrois are established , a kind of rough estimate may be formed of the extent of these transactions ; but in such a country as England , where , with ...
... individuals of the same country with each other . In countries like France , where octrois are established , a kind of rough estimate may be formed of the extent of these transactions ; but in such a country as England , where , with ...
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Page 481 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Page 729 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 93 - 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.
Page 3 - ... be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 143 - 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 93 - 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 443 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 213 - That James VII, being a professed papist , did assume the royal power, and acted as king , without ever taking the oath required by law, and had by the advice of evil and wicked counsellors , . invaded the fundamental constitution of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power...
Page 261 - 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.
Page 643 - ... by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers...