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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... Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge The General Assembly's Education Committee Schools belonging to the Secession Church Private or Voluntary Schools 3. Education in Ireland REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE CHAPTER II . Sect . 1 ...
... Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge The General Assembly's Education Committee Schools belonging to the Secession Church Private or Voluntary Schools 3. Education in Ireland REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE CHAPTER II . Sect . 1 ...
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... society would be thrown back into primeval barbarism , and would not possess a tenth part of the accommodations that are now enjoyed . All But this is not all . Besides enabling individuals to addict them- selves , in preference , to ...
... society would be thrown back into primeval barbarism , and would not possess a tenth part of the accommodations that are now enjoyed . All But this is not all . Besides enabling individuals to addict them- selves , in preference , to ...
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... society to the high state of improvement to which it has attained . At no very distant period , various restraints were imposed on several branches of the home trade . Of these the most important seem to have been laid on the dealers in ...
... society to the high state of improvement to which it has attained . At no very distant period , various restraints were imposed on several branches of the home trade . Of these the most important seem to have been laid on the dealers in ...
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... societies have been repeatedly elucidated . They serve both as standards by which to mea- sure the value of other things , and as the universal equivalent , or marchandise bannale , the employment of which serves , in no ordinary degree ...
... societies have been repeatedly elucidated . They serve both as standards by which to mea- sure the value of other things , and as the universal equivalent , or marchandise bannale , the employment of which serves , in no ordinary degree ...
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... Society had a yard made , from a very careful comparison of the standard ells or yards of the reigns of Henry VII . and Elizabeth , kept at the Exchequer . In 1758 an exact copy was made of the Royal Society's yard ; and this copy ...
... Society had a yard made , from a very careful comparison of the standard ells or yards of the reigns of Henry VII . and Elizabeth , kept at the Exchequer . In 1758 an exact copy was made of the Royal Society's yard ; and this copy ...
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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...