The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the Domestic and Foreign Possessions of the Crown; the Laws, Commerce, Revenues, Offices, and Other Establishments, Civil and Military, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... matter with the general subject . Where the alteration has been too extensive to permit , or too minute to require such an insertion , I have re- sorted to an appendix , with references to the places where the additional information ...
... matter with the general subject . Where the alteration has been too extensive to permit , or too minute to require such an insertion , I have re- sorted to an appendix , with references to the places where the additional information ...
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... matters , and things depending in the court ; and all his decrees , orders , and acts are valid and effectual , subject , however , to reverfal by the chancellor , and not to be enrolled until signed by him ; nor are they to discharge ...
... matters , and things depending in the court ; and all his decrees , orders , and acts are valid and effectual , subject , however , to reverfal by the chancellor , and not to be enrolled until signed by him ; nor are they to discharge ...
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... matter of moment could be communicated from fea to fea in an hour . In the rubbish of this wall was found , fome time ago , an image of brafs , about half a foot long , which from the defcription the antients have given us of the god ...
... matter of moment could be communicated from fea to fea in an hour . In the rubbish of this wall was found , fome time ago , an image of brafs , about half a foot long , which from the defcription the antients have given us of the god ...
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... matter to refift the waves , the foundation is one entire folid mafs of ftones to the height of 35 feet , engrafted into each other , and united by every means of additional strength . It is about 80 feet in height . DORSETSHIRE . THE ...
... matter to refift the waves , the foundation is one entire folid mafs of ftones to the height of 35 feet , engrafted into each other , and united by every means of additional strength . It is about 80 feet in height . DORSETSHIRE . THE ...
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... matter of confiderable confequence . The fheep were formerly in much estimation , and the wool valuable on account of its staple and fineness ; but the farmers now prefer a breed with coarser wool , but larger and more profitable . The ...
... matter of confiderable confequence . The fheep were formerly in much estimation , and the wool valuable on account of its staple and fineness ; but the farmers now prefer a breed with coarser wool , but larger and more profitable . The ...
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Page 153 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page xxviii - Parent or Parents, or any other Person having the lawful Care or Charge of such Child...
Page 146 - That King James the Second, 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 149 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Page 153 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood ; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 411 - ... or under the protection and influence of her husband, her baron, or lord; and her condition during her marriage is called her coverture.
Page 358 - Universities, or at the least, except he be able to yield an account of his Faith in Latin, according to the Articles of Religion...
Page 188 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal: this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 353 - He is called parson, persona, because by his person the church, which is an invisible body, is represented; and he is in himself a body corporate, in order to protect and defend the rights of the church, which he personates, by a perpetual succession.
Page 169 - And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...