An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil: From the First Ages of the World, Thro' the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &c., Down to this Present Time, Volume 1 |
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Page 381 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Page 68 - Farther yet defigning to enlarge his City, he call'd all Men indifferently by Proclamation in thefe Words, ( Come hither all ye People) to enjoy an equal Part of the Commonwealth. Yet for all this he fuffer'd not his State, by the promifcuous Multitude that flow'd in, to be turn'd into Confufion and Anarchy, and left without any Order and Degrees, but was the firft who divided the Common-wealth into three diftinft Ranks, viz.
Page 44 - ... make her sad, lest she should pine, and be overcome with sorrow. But if Adam, in the state of perfection, and Solomon the son of David, God's chosen servant, and himself a man endued with the greatest wisdom, did both of them disobey their Creator by the persuasion, and for the love they bare to a woman, it is not so wonderful as lamentable that other men in succeeding ages have been allured to so many inconvenient and wicked practices by the persuasions of their wives, or other beloved darlings,...
Page 253 - A right which the vassal hath in land, or some immoveable thing of his lord's, to use the same, and take the profits thereof, hereditarily, rendering unto his lord such feudal duties and services as belong to military tenure ; the mere propriety of the soil always remaining to the lord.
Page 454 - It is ufed, in the common law, for a liberty or privilege, whereby a lord is enabled to call any man dwelling within his own fee, and taken for felony in any other place, and to judge him in his own court.
Page 296 - ... officers of the empire in general ; of whom, thefe being the chief, and moft confiderable by their eftates, took the advantage to overtop the reft, and aflume that power wholly to themfelves. This is dated from the time of Fredtrit II.
Page 44 - ... mischief by? Even the unquiet vanity of the woman ; so as by Adam's hearkening to the voice of his wife, contrary to the express commandment of the living God, mankind by that her incantation...
Page 214 - ... clearly this commission was penned has been remarked already ; and with regard to the close letter, which the king takes notice sir Walter had written to him, it was probably that in which that gentleman had, in obedience to his majesty's commands, given an account of the number of his men, the burden and strength of his ships, together with the country and river which he was to enter1. This letter appears to have been...
Page 398 - Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God of England and France King, Defender of the Faith, and Lord of Ireland...
Page 102 - ... out that part of his will by which he had given them his library, and with some passion declared they should never have it.