Political Dictionary: Abandonment-EyreC. Knight and Company, 1845 |
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... various races of people , of whose immigration into those regions we have no historical accounts . All the tribes , then , of North America may , for the present , be considered as aborigines . We can , indeed , since the discovery of ...
... various races of people , of whose immigration into those regions we have no historical accounts . All the tribes , then , of North America may , for the present , be considered as aborigines . We can , indeed , since the discovery of ...
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... various parts of the world in which Eu- ropeans have settled ; but it seems to be limited or to be nearly limited to such natives as are barbarous , and do not cul- tivate the ground , and have no settled ha- bitations . Some of the ...
... various parts of the world in which Eu- ropeans have settled ; but it seems to be limited or to be nearly limited to such natives as are barbarous , and do not cul- tivate the ground , and have no settled ha- bitations . Some of the ...
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... various towns of Italy , the employment of English capital would not be required to the same degree as if they were all to remove to Brussels . Accumulation , or the increase of wealth in a country , can only arise from savings or from ...
... various towns of Italy , the employment of English capital would not be required to the same degree as if they were all to remove to Brussels . Accumulation , or the increase of wealth in a country , can only arise from savings or from ...
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... various periods , any one of which may be selected by the person who directs the accumulation of his property . There were nine lives in being at the time of Thel- lusson's death , and the enjoyment of the property was consequently ...
... various periods , any one of which may be selected by the person who directs the accumulation of his property . There were nine lives in being at the time of Thel- lusson's death , and the enjoyment of the property was consequently ...
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... various legal meanings . Of these meanings one of the most common was the proceeding by which a man pursued a claim in a court of justice , who was accordingly in such case called the Actor . In this sense we have in our language the ex ...
... various legal meanings . Of these meanings one of the most common was the proceeding by which a man pursued a claim in a court of justice , who was accordingly in such case called the Actor . In this sense we have in our language the ex ...
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Page 471 - God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 401 - But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am; and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Page 380 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 4 - It was moved that King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.
Page 437 - This Church was erected in the year 1835, containing 323 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of Churches and Chapels , 193 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.
Page 8 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm.
Page 86 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Page 372 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 355 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 113 - Formerly the oath of allegiance ran thus : ' I do promise to be true and faithful to the King and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear, of life, and limb, and terrene honour ; and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom:' and was altered at the Revolution to the present form.