An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - Ireland |
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... shew that the mode adopted in this country of killing animals by wounding the spinal marrow , is less humane than the more common one of knocking them down . " I have , at your Lordship's request , repeated these experiments , and find ...
... shew that the mode adopted in this country of killing animals by wounding the spinal marrow , is less humane than the more common one of knocking them down . " I have , at your Lordship's request , repeated these experiments , and find ...
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... shews , in a very striking manner , the importance of the Irish market to the industry of Great Britain . The exports of Ireland are naturally divided into two great classes , the produce of the soil , and the produce of industry . The ...
... shews , in a very striking manner , the importance of the Irish market to the industry of Great Britain . The exports of Ireland are naturally divided into two great classes , the produce of the soil , and the produce of industry . The ...
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... shew the wisdom of that nation which exchanges its manu- factures for the raw materials of other countries ; and the ... shews , from the difference in the rates , and the omissions in the Custom House entries , that all calculations or ...
... shew the wisdom of that nation which exchanges its manu- factures for the raw materials of other countries ; and the ... shews , from the difference in the rates , and the omissions in the Custom House entries , that all calculations or ...
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... shews the barrenness of the country , and to what shifts men are sometimes reduced by necessity . In winter , when the fields in those northern regions are covered for several months with snow , they are used as food for their cattle ...
... shews the barrenness of the country , and to what shifts men are sometimes reduced by necessity . In winter , when the fields in those northern regions are covered for several months with snow , they are used as food for their cattle ...
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... shews that the learned Sir John Burroughs , in his Sovereignty of the British Seas , upon good grounds affirmed , that the fish yearly taken by strangers , did amount to above ten millions sterling . Ibid . p . 19 . Another writer ...
... shews that the learned Sir John Burroughs , in his Sovereignty of the British Seas , upon good grounds affirmed , that the fish yearly taken by strangers , did amount to above ten millions sterling . Ibid . p . 19 . Another writer ...
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Page 396 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 509 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 509 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 508 - Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any Person whatsoever : And I do declare, That I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other Foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Temporal or Civil Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority or Pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm.
Page 508 - Him or Them : And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my Power, the Succession of the Crown, which Succession, by an Act, intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 263 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
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Page 508 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm...
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Page 501 - OF all the monstrous passions and opinions which have crept into the world, there is none so wonderful as that those, who profess the common name of Christians, should pursue each other with rancour and hatred for differences in their way of following the example of their Saviour. It seems so natural that all who pursue the steps of any leader should form themselves after his...