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... held that post nineteen years . In April 1575 he was sent to Flushing to recover goods which the Flushingers had seized , consisting partly of merchandise and partly of property of the Earl of Oxford ; and in the following year he ...
... held that post nineteen years . In April 1575 he was sent to Flushing to recover goods which the Flushingers had seized , consisting partly of merchandise and partly of property of the Earl of Oxford ; and in the following year he ...
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... held this office for twenty- three years , that he enjoyed it with the fee of 50 % . yearly under the great seal of Eng- land , and that he was then suffering from several grievous maladies , amongst them gout and stone . Beale also at ...
... held this office for twenty- three years , that he enjoyed it with the fee of 50 % . yearly under the great seal of Eng- land , and that he was then suffering from several grievous maladies , amongst them gout and stone . Beale also at ...
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... held in the Freemasons ' Tavern under the presidency of Beales , who from that time till his promotion to the judi- cial bench was identified with the principles of manhood suffrage and the ballot . In 1865 the association developed ...
... held in the Freemasons ' Tavern under the presidency of Beales , who from that time till his promotion to the judi- cial bench was identified with the principles of manhood suffrage and the ballot . In 1865 the association developed ...
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... held out but little encouragement to a youth who rarely had money to expend . . . . The principal fea- ture of this man's character was suspicion of strangers , and a constant apprehension lest he should dispose of any of his libri ...
... held out but little encouragement to a youth who rarely had money to expend . . . . The principal fea- ture of this man's character was suspicion of strangers , and a constant apprehension lest he should dispose of any of his libri ...
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... held up to execration for his cruel- ties to the reformers , especially for the burn- ing of Wishart . But as the reformers were in secret treaty with England , their political as well as their religious creed made it im- possible to ...
... held up to execration for his cruel- ties to the reformers , especially for the burn- ing of Wishart . But as the reformers were in secret treaty with England , their political as well as their religious creed made it im- possible to ...
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Página 269 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Página 307 - ... action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers."* Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles.
Página 307 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 269 - Morals reformed - health preserved - industry invigorated- instruction diffused - public burthens lightened- Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock - the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut, but untied - all by a simple idea in architecture!
Página 156 - Commentaries on the Laws of Scotland, and on the Principles of mercantile Jurisprudence, considered in relation to Bankruptcy, Competitions of Creditors, and Imprisonment for Debt.
Página 337 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Página 38 - KARAMANIA; OR, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ASIA MINOR. And of the Remains of Antiquity : with Maps, Plans, Views, &c.
Página 269 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness (all this in the present case comes to the same thing), or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
Página 307 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Página 348 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.