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... held as per- sonal property . Rough linen cloth was manufactured by the women , who spun with spindle and distaff and wove on primitive looms . Wheat was ground with pestle and mor- tar , and made into a coarse bread . The many ...
... held as per- sonal property . Rough linen cloth was manufactured by the women , who spun with spindle and distaff and wove on primitive looms . Wheat was ground with pestle and mor- tar , and made into a coarse bread . The many ...
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... held by numerous tribes , each united by the bond of blood - relationship , and each recognizing in the head of kin- dred a chief or king . The government was patriarchal , im- mediate obedience being due to the head of the household ...
... held by numerous tribes , each united by the bond of blood - relationship , and each recognizing in the head of kin- dred a chief or king . The government was patriarchal , im- mediate obedience being due to the head of the household ...
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... held responsible for the pp . 101-105 . wrong - doing of every member , they were bound to avenge each other's wrongs . The injury done to an individual was an offence against his family , to be retaliated by the united effort of his ...
... held responsible for the pp . 101-105 . wrong - doing of every member , they were bound to avenge each other's wrongs . The injury done to an individual was an offence against his family , to be retaliated by the united effort of his ...
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... held the country as Spain held her colo- nies for the sake of the revenue to be derived and the lucrative posts that provincial adminis- 5 3 Wall of Antonine OCEANUS HIBERNICUS VERGIVIUS LEAD GOLD. 22 Race Elements of the English Nation.
... held the country as Spain held her colo- nies for the sake of the revenue to be derived and the lucrative posts that provincial adminis- 5 3 Wall of Antonine OCEANUS HIBERNICUS VERGIVIUS LEAD GOLD. 22 Race Elements of the English Nation.
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... held . The Mercians were the men of the mark , or border , who held the English frontier against the unconquered Celts of the western highlands . Here the remnant of the Britons , whom the English called Welsh , or " strangers ...
... held . The Mercians were the men of the mark , or border , who held the English frontier against the unconquered Celts of the western highlands . Here the remnant of the Britons , whom the English called Welsh , or " strangers ...
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Page 243 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 122 - ... him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man, either justice or right.
Page 207 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 352 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 292 - As for the absolute prerogative of the Crown, that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that, but | rest in that which is the King's will revealed in his law.
Page 297 - Rights and Liberties, but that his Royal will and Command, in imposing Loans, and Taxes, without consent of Parliament, doth oblige the subject's conscience upon pain of eternal damnation.
Page 45 - I, then, Alfred, King, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan...
Page 207 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm...
Page 271 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 427 - THAT AND A' THAT Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a