Annual Register, Volume 69

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Edmund Burke
1828 - History

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Page 13 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 39 - I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his majesty King George...
Page 71 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Page 109 - The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.
Page 373 - Evidence taken before them from time to time, to the House, have further considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the...
Page 10 - Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered, on the ground that, as both parties had been wrong-doers, one could not claim indemnity from the other.
Page 182 - Statute shall be understood to include several Matters as well as One Matter, and several Persons as well as One Person, and Females as well as Males, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction...
Page 404 - In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Washington, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
Page 346 - Bengal, from time to time, to make and issue such rules, ordinances, and regulations, for the good order and civil government of the said united company's settlement at Fort- William aforesaid, and other factories and places subordinate, or to be subordinate thereto, as shall be deemed just and reasonable (such rules, ordinances, and regulations, not being repugnant to the laws of the realm...
Page 15 - Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.

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