The English Constitution in the Reign of King Charles the SecondV. and R. Stevens, [etc.,etc.]; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Company, 1857 - Constitutional history - 328 pages |
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... sent , I dare say no man alive at this day hath had more experience with the judges and lawyers than I. " Speaker Onslow's Observations on Lord Somers's Answer to his Impeachment for signing Blank Warrants , Burnet , Vol . IV . Lord ...
... sent , I dare say no man alive at this day hath had more experience with the judges and lawyers than I. " Speaker Onslow's Observations on Lord Somers's Answer to his Impeachment for signing Blank Warrants , Burnet , Vol . IV . Lord ...
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... sent to the Lords , a tacking of clauses for the admission of Jews into Parliament , for legalizing marriages with sisters of deceased wives , and for disannexing judicial powers from Judges by descent . ( e ) Publication of Debates ...
... sent to the Lords , a tacking of clauses for the admission of Jews into Parliament , for legalizing marriages with sisters of deceased wives , and for disannexing judicial powers from Judges by descent . ( e ) Publication of Debates ...
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... sent in pursuit of the printers of Protests in the year 1770. The publication of the Debates has occasioned an almost entire dis- pensation with the restriction against the presence of strangers . Thus the Constitution has been much ...
... sent in pursuit of the printers of Protests in the year 1770. The publication of the Debates has occasioned an almost entire dis- pensation with the restriction against the presence of strangers . Thus the Constitution has been much ...
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... sent into the Speaker's Chamber with the mace , to bring him to receive his sentence on his knees at the bar . Hereupon the House was disappointed ; for , in the meantime , he was escaped by the back door , which was ordered to be ...
... sent into the Speaker's Chamber with the mace , to bring him to receive his sentence on his knees at the bar . Hereupon the House was disappointed ; for , in the meantime , he was escaped by the back door , which was ordered to be ...
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... sent him till he should pay that fine to the Tower . " The House of Commons on the occasions before mentioned of Lord Danby's and of Fitzharris's impeachments , and in the two disputes concerning judicial powers of the Lords1 , resolved ...
... sent him till he should pay that fine to the Tower . " The House of Commons on the occasions before mentioned of Lord Danby's and of Fitzharris's impeachments , and in the two disputes concerning judicial powers of the Lords1 , resolved ...
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Page 236 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 89 - AB, do declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the Book entitled the Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be sung or said in Churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 19 - Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures, and to the most unjustifiable public declarations, from a throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.
Page 232 - 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 182 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 176 - By a daisy, whose leaves spread, Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all nature's beauties can In some other wiser man. By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness, In the very gall of sadness. The dull loneness, the black shade, That these hanging vaults have made ; The strange music of the waves, Beating on these hollow caves...
Page 234 - Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets, and statutes, and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
Page 119 - In the ocean's bosom unespied, From a small boat that rowed along The listening winds received this song: "What should we do but sing His praise That led us through the watery maze Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own? Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks That lift the deep upon their backs, He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms' and prelates
Page 140 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe, that, in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 168 - Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.