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Page 348 - An Essay on Ways and Means for raising Money for the support of the present war, without increasing the public debts.
Page 400 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the hopes of the late pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 423 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.
Page 400 - Liveley's, might be the places recorded for meeting, and having taken the oaths enjoyned by act of Parliament instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 507 - An order of the President devolves upon Major-General Burnside the command of this army. In parting from you, I cannot express the love and gratitude I bear you. As an army you have grown up under my care. In you I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought under my command will proudly live in our nation's history.
Page 400 - Oaths appointed to be taken by Act of Parliament instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, the Oath appointed to be taken by an Act of Parliament made in the first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the first our Royal Father Intituled 'An Act for the further Security of his Majestys Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and...
Page 403 - Duncan or any three of them being first sworn before a Justice of the Peace for this county appraise in Current money the personal estate and slaves, if any, of Isaac Settle, deed and return the appraisement to the court.
Page 345 - ... by the striking graces of this gentleman's person and conversation he procured for him the government of Virginia. Unreclaimed by the former subversion of his fortune, he introduced the same fatal propensity to gaming into Virginia: and the example of so many virtues and accomplishments alloyed but by a single vice was but too successful in extending the influence of this pernicious and ruinous practice.
Page 507 - The battles you have fought under my command will proudly live in our nation's history. The glory you have achieved, our mutual perils and fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, the broken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled, — the strongest associations which can exist among men, — unite us still by an indissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting the Constitution of our country and the nationality of its people.
Page 402 - Neville, one of the executors therein named, who made oath according to law, certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form, giving security...

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