A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 2C. Knight, 1839 |
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... King , and the Lords Spiritual , the Lords Temporal , and the Commons . * The King is supreme ; by him all new laws purport to be enacted , with the consent of the two Houses ; and his office hereditary . The Lords Spiritual and ...
... King , and the Lords Spiritual , the Lords Temporal , and the Commons . * The King is supreme ; by him all new laws purport to be enacted , with the consent of the two Houses ; and his office hereditary . The Lords Spiritual and ...
Page 71
... King , and the two houses , of Lords and Commons ; and this assent must be given by each separately . The King , however , possesses a negative voice only ; and no measure can originate with him , unless it be on the occasion of an act ...
... King , and the two houses , of Lords and Commons ; and this assent must be given by each separately . The King , however , possesses a negative voice only ; and no measure can originate with him , unless it be on the occasion of an act ...
Page 73
... king was termed lord paramount , his tenants barons , crown vassals , and tenants in capite , and their lands feuds or fiefs . The king's immediate tenants again divided their lands to other subtenants , who entered into similar ...
... king was termed lord paramount , his tenants barons , crown vassals , and tenants in capite , and their lands feuds or fiefs . The king's immediate tenants again divided their lands to other subtenants , who entered into similar ...
Page 74
... King John on Runnymeade , on the 15th of June , 1215. The credit of drawing it up is usually attributed to William ... king's power , as feudal lord ; but the remainder contains principles of uni- versal application , which gives it an ...
... King John on Runnymeade , on the 15th of June , 1215. The credit of drawing it up is usually attributed to William ... king's power , as feudal lord ; but the remainder contains principles of uni- versal application , which gives it an ...
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... king , and of his heirs , and for the estate of the realm and of the people , should be treated , accorded , and established in parliament by the king , and by the assent of the prelates , earls , and barons , and the commonalty of the ...
... king , and of his heirs , and for the estate of the realm and of the people , should be treated , accorded , and established in parliament by the king , and by the assent of the prelates , earls , and barons , and the commonalty of the ...
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Page 87 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 685 - The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings. Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale, And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Page 84 - 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. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 4 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 124 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Page 84 - 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 124 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 263 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 298 - I protest before God and your lordships, that I profess and allow with my heart the true religion presently professed within this realm, and authorised by the laws thereof ; I shall abide thereat, and defend the same to my life's end, renouncing the Roman religion called papistry.
Page 170 - Not found : and then the party is discharged without farther answer. But a fresh bill may afterwards be preferred to a subsequent grand jury. If they are satisfied of the truth of the accusation, they then endone upon it, A true bill ; anciently, Billa vera.