Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Volume 2T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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... constitution , and to bewilder their understandings by the fubtilties of legal fophiftry . It is , therefore , of great coh- fequence to the interefts of public freedom , that the rights of jurymen should be refo- lutely maintained ...
... constitution , and to bewilder their understandings by the fubtilties of legal fophiftry . It is , therefore , of great coh- fequence to the interefts of public freedom , that the rights of jurymen should be refo- lutely maintained ...
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... constitution that they fhould be legiflators . The latter character has , however , been too much affumed by them ; and to this affumed power a submis- fion has been paid , to which it undoubtedly never had a conftitutional claim . A IF ...
... constitution that they fhould be legiflators . The latter character has , however , been too much affumed by them ; and to this affumed power a submis- fion has been paid , to which it undoubtedly never had a conftitutional claim . A IF ...
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... constitution , and can derive no authority from the in- famous court to which they owe their origin . Nor ought any maxims to be re- ceived as law in this country , which have not a better fource , and which are not . more congenial to ...
... constitution , and can derive no authority from the in- famous court to which they owe their origin . Nor ought any maxims to be re- ceived as law in this country , which have not a better fource , and which are not . more congenial to ...
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... constitutional " Information . " After a bill of indi & t- ment had been found against the Dean of St. Afaph , for the publication of that edi- tion of it which was printed in Wales , Sir WILLIAM JONES , who was then in Eng- 74 Second ...
... constitutional " Information . " After a bill of indi & t- ment had been found against the Dean of St. Afaph , for the publication of that edi- tion of it which was printed in Wales , Sir WILLIAM JONES , who was then in Eng- 74 Second ...
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... - from undue ftretches of pre- ances , any ⚫ rogative , from any abuse of royal power , thofe favourite topics upon which the 4 ENEMIES OF OUR CONSTITUTION fo ve- hemently · hemently declaim . ' I apprehend , that I [ 194 ]
... - from undue ftretches of pre- ances , any ⚫ rogative , from any abuse of royal power , thofe favourite topics upon which the 4 ENEMIES OF OUR CONSTITUTION fo ve- hemently · hemently declaim . ' I apprehend , that I [ 194 ]
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Page 414 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 363 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 406 - But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 381 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Page 342 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Page 368 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page 376 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 414 - For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
Page 406 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it?
Page 82 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.