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... livings and other preferments held by each individual , the names of their patrons , their family connexions , and influence . A full exposition of these several topics will hardly leave any thing further to be desired in respect of the ...
... livings and other preferments held by each individual , the names of their patrons , their family connexions , and influence . A full exposition of these several topics will hardly leave any thing further to be desired in respect of the ...
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... livings was first introduced by the Nor- mans ; and within three hundred years after , the monks had become the proprietors of one - third of all the benefices in the kingdom , and these for the most part the richest . At the ...
... livings was first introduced by the Nor- mans ; and within three hundred years after , the monks had become the proprietors of one - third of all the benefices in the kingdom , and these for the most part the richest . At the ...
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... livings , episcopal and cathedral dignitaries , and every other species of ecclesiastical revenue , and the whole entered in a book , called Liber Regalis , or the King's Book . This important document has been recently reprinted by the ...
... livings , episcopal and cathedral dignitaries , and every other species of ecclesiastical revenue , and the whole entered in a book , called Liber Regalis , or the King's Book . This important document has been recently reprinted by the ...
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... livings . The lord chancellor presents to all the livings under the value of £ 20 in the king's book , which are about 780 ; he also presents to six prebendal stalls in Bristol cathedral , and to five in each of the cathedrals of ...
... livings . The lord chancellor presents to all the livings under the value of £ 20 in the king's book , which are about 780 ; he also presents to six prebendal stalls in Bristol cathedral , and to five in each of the cathedrals of ...
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... livings belonging to the bishoprics , the deans and chapters , the universities , and colleges , were the gifts of their mu- nificent founders . Those in the hands of private individuals have come into their possession along with their ...
... livings belonging to the bishoprics , the deans and chapters , the universities , and colleges , were the gifts of their mu- nificent founders . Those in the hands of private individuals have come into their possession along with their ...
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Page 69 - The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the Body and Blood of Christ, as our bodies are by the Bread and Wine.
Page 68 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page xx - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 68 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them ? Answ.
Page 69 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 356 - Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 222 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 147 - Argestes loud,' howling through the vacant lobbies, and clattering the doors of deserted guard-rooms, appal the imagination, and conjure up the grim spectres of departed tyrants — the Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane; the stern Edwards and fierce Henries — who stalk from desolation to desolation, through the dreary vacuity, and melancholy succession of chill and comfortless chambers.
Page 254 - ... 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 1 - ... to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to .assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.