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Page xi
... laws was conducted with a precifion , an order , and a folemnity which had not hitherto been obferved . Edward the Fourth , from his intimate connection with the court of Burgundy , had opened his mind to a difcernment of the benefits ...
... laws was conducted with a precifion , an order , and a folemnity which had not hitherto been obferved . Edward the Fourth , from his intimate connection with the court of Burgundy , had opened his mind to a difcernment of the benefits ...
Page xii
... law of the kingdom was in eminent perfection . Amidst the scarcity of good writers , two lawyers greatly diftinguished ... laws , and has fhewn himself to have been a firm friend to the cause of liberty . His admirable tracts form an ...
... law of the kingdom was in eminent perfection . Amidst the scarcity of good writers , two lawyers greatly diftinguished ... laws , and has fhewn himself to have been a firm friend to the cause of liberty . His admirable tracts form an ...
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... laws which refpected jufts , tournaments , and triumphs . Equal in birth and accomplishments , and fuperior in alliance and military exploits , was Anthony Widville , earl Rivers . He does not seem to have had the fame advan- tages of ...
... laws which refpected jufts , tournaments , and triumphs . Equal in birth and accomplishments , and fuperior in alliance and military exploits , was Anthony Widville , earl Rivers . He does not seem to have had the fame advan- tages of ...
Page xxxi
... laws , logic , and philofophy , were the fubjects of the lectures . Henry Wardlaw , bishop of St. Andrew's , who had ... law , medicine , and the liberal arts . This charter , agreeably to the ideas of the time , was confirmed by the ...
... laws , logic , and philofophy , were the fubjects of the lectures . Henry Wardlaw , bishop of St. Andrew's , who had ... law , medicine , and the liberal arts . This charter , agreeably to the ideas of the time , was confirmed by the ...
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... law for the encou- ragement of arts and commerce . By this law aliens , who fettled in the port of Connecticut , with the confent of the majority of the inha- bitants , were intitled to all the rights of citizens ; all fhips em- ployed ...
... law for the encou- ragement of arts and commerce . By this law aliens , who fettled in the port of Connecticut , with the confent of the majority of the inha- bitants , were intitled to all the rights of citizens ; all fhips em- ployed ...
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Page 234 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 133 - That in all cases where the duties on articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, are different on the importation into the other, it would be expedient, that they should be reduced in the kingdom where they are the highest, to the amount payable in the other...
Page 35 - Snceberg, are fwom enemies to the paftoral life. Some of their maxims are, to live on hunting and plunder, and never to keep any animal alive for the fpace of one night. By this means they render themfelves odious to the reft of mankind, and are purfued and exterminated like the wild beafts, whofe manners they have af> fumed. Others of them again are kept alive, and made flaves of. Their weapons are peiloned arrows, whkh, ihot out of a fmall bow, will...
Page 106 - In all the hues of heaven's bow And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight. Old castles on the cliffs arise, Proudly...
Page 183 - For in a discourse of our present civil war, what could seem more impertinent, than to ask, as one did, what was the value of a Roman penny? Yet the coherence to me was manifest enough. For the thought of the war, introduced the thought of the delivering up the king to his enemies, the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ, and that again the thought of the thirty pence which was the price of that treason; and thence easily followed that malicious question; and all...
Page 229 - Lo, as old authors ling, c the ftones 'gan pour/ Indeed an *Otaheite fhow'r ! The confequence was dreadful, let me tell ye ; One's eye was beat out of his head, This limp'd away, that lay for dead ; Here mourn'da broken back, and there a belly.
Page 233 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 127 - What Preferences are now given to the Importation of any Article, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Ireland, by any Duty or Prohibition on the Importation...
Page 188 - God forgiveness for an offence, which it had been his intention to repair by marrying her : that with...
Page 131 - Ireland, by laws to be passed by the parliament of that kingdom, for the same time, and in the same manner, as in Great Britain. V^ — That it is further essential to this settlement, that all goods and commodities of the growth, produce, or manufacture of British or foreign colonies in America or the West Indies, and the British or foreign settlements on the coast of Africa, imported into Ireland, should, on importation, be subject to the same duties and regulations...