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... called caulking , and is effected chair , at Westminster Abbey ; fragments of King John's palace at by the aid of a large mallet or hammer and a caulking chisel ; by Eltham ; the Plantagenet stails of Gloucester Cathedral ; the piles of ...
... called caulking , and is effected chair , at Westminster Abbey ; fragments of King John's palace at by the aid of a large mallet or hammer and a caulking chisel ; by Eltham ; the Plantagenet stails of Gloucester Cathedral ; the piles of ...
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... called it " Faustinus " ( Julius Capitolinus , c . 10 ) ; and the flatterers of Commodus assigned to it one of their patron's epithets , " Invictus . " ( Ælius Lamprid . , ed . Lugd . Bat . , 1671 , p . 507. ) Our Anglo - Saxon ...
... called it " Faustinus " ( Julius Capitolinus , c . 10 ) ; and the flatterers of Commodus assigned to it one of their patron's epithets , " Invictus . " ( Ælius Lamprid . , ed . Lugd . Bat . , 1671 , p . 507. ) Our Anglo - Saxon ...
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... called as the place of their original promulgation . An ancient copy of these laws is to be found in the Black Book ' of the Admiralty , the original of which is supposed to be in the Bodleian Library ; but they are not there called the ...
... called as the place of their original promulgation . An ancient copy of these laws is to be found in the Black Book ' of the Admiralty , the original of which is supposed to be in the Bodleian Library ; but they are not there called the ...
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... called an Olympiad . The celebration lasted five The games consisted of horse and foot races , leaping , throwing , days . wrestling , and boxing , and combinations of these exercises . 1. The The origin of this festival is concealed ...
... called an Olympiad . The celebration lasted five The games consisted of horse and foot races , leaping , throwing , days . wrestling , and boxing , and combinations of these exercises . 1. The The origin of this festival is concealed ...
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... called Omnium . ( M'Culloch's Dictionary of through a breach made in the wall for his reception ; banquets were Commerce . ) given to him by his friends , at which odes were sung in honour of his ONION . The species from which the ...
... called Omnium . ( M'Culloch's Dictionary of through a breach made in the wall for his reception ; banquets were Commerce . ) given to him by his friends , at which odes were sung in honour of his ONION . The species from which the ...
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Page 309 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 317 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 445 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 77 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 21 - ... shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, tithes, rents, and hereditaments, whether freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether corporeal, incorporeal, or personal, and to any undivided share thereof, and to any estate, right, or interest (other than a chattel interest) therein; and the words "personal estate...
Page 307 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as " subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
Page 305 - That the right of granting aids and supplies to the crown is in the commons alone, as an essential part of then- constitution; and the limitation of all such grants, as to the matter, manner, measure, and time, is only in them.
Page 385 - List, such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their sovereign and the gratitude of their country.
Page 305 - That to guard for the future against an undue exercise of that power by the Lords, and to secure to the commons their rightful control over taxation and supply...
Page 447 - By the general law, and of common, right, all the pews in a parish church are the common property of the parish : they are for the use, in common, of the parishioners, who are all entitled to be seated, orderly, and conveniently, so as best to provide for the accommodation of all.