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... government is reflected in the growing bulk and variety of the sources from which the following extracts have had to be selected . Nor is it merely the activity of government which has to be illus- trated ; the intellectual interests of ...
... government is reflected in the growing bulk and variety of the sources from which the following extracts have had to be selected . Nor is it merely the activity of government which has to be illus- trated ; the intellectual interests of ...
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... government . The chief of these is the Privy Council register , volumes 54-72 ( 1660-88 ) , which is preserved at the Public Record Office ; its contents are indicated in a typewritten list to be found in the Literary Search Room . The ...
... government . The chief of these is the Privy Council register , volumes 54-72 ( 1660-88 ) , which is preserved at the Public Record Office ; its contents are indicated in a typewritten list to be found in the Literary Search Room . The ...
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... Government that he thought a king who might be checked or have his ministers called into account by a parliament was but a king in name . . . . He did so entirely trust the earl of Clarendon , that he left all to his care and submitted ...
... Government that he thought a king who might be checked or have his ministers called into account by a parliament was but a king in name . . . . He did so entirely trust the earl of Clarendon , that he left all to his care and submitted ...
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... the hurry of a sudden conflagration , all doors and passages are thronged for escape . [ Description of the attempts made by the Government and by voluntary workers to stop the devasta- tion 14 ENGLAND UNDER THE RESTORATION.
... the hurry of a sudden conflagration , all doors and passages are thronged for escape . [ Description of the attempts made by the Government and by voluntary workers to stop the devasta- tion 14 ENGLAND UNDER THE RESTORATION.
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Thora Guinevere Stone. Government and by voluntary workers to stop the devasta- tion by instituting public prayers and by rendering medical assistance . ] After all endeavours to restrain the contagion proved of no effect , we applied ...
Thora Guinevere Stone. Government and by voluntary workers to stop the devasta- tion by instituting public prayers and by rendering medical assistance . ] After all endeavours to restrain the contagion proved of no effect , we applied ...
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Page 121 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page 165 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 165 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Page 16 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Page 119 - Majesty that penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by Act of Parliament.
Page 111 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England...
Page 2 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 88 - Majesty's realms and dominions the sole supreme government, command and disposition of the militia, and of all forces by sea and land, and of all forts and places of strength, is, and by the laws of England ever was, the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England ; and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot, nor ought to, pretend to the same...
Page 86 - ... Court of wards and liveries and tenures in capite, and by knights service, and purveyance, and for settling a revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof...
Page 187 - ... heirs and assigns, and every person who shall have paid his passage, and taken up one hundred acres of land, at one penny an acre, and have cultivated ten acres thereof, and every person that hath been a servant or bondsman, and is free by his service, that shall have taken tip his fifty acres of land, and cultivated twenty thereof...