Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres R. Wilks, 1809 - 607 páginas |
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... Councils , and that such regret is greatly in- creased by the cause to which such change has been ascribed , it being the opinion of this House , that it is contrary to the first duties of the Ministers of the Crown to restrain ...
... Councils , and that such regret is greatly in- creased by the cause to which such change has been ascribed , it being the opinion of this House , that it is contrary to the first duties of the Ministers of the Crown to restrain ...
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... Council . They should be thirty - one in number , or perhaps more ; and fhould all fign the ordinances for which they gave their votes , and should be paid forty fhillings each , every time they attended the meetings of the Council , in ...
... Council . They should be thirty - one in number , or perhaps more ; and fhould all fign the ordinances for which they gave their votes , and should be paid forty fhillings each , every time they attended the meetings of the Council , in ...
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... Council , confifting of Proteftants only , a general Assembly of the people , confifting of Pro- teftants and Papifts indifcriminately , feems the most proper legislature for the province . And to the establishment of fuch an Affembly ...
... Council , confifting of Proteftants only , a general Assembly of the people , confifting of Pro- teftants and Papifts indifcriminately , feems the most proper legislature for the province . And to the establishment of fuch an Affembly ...
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... Councils , and Affemblies of the faid provinces to lay on the inhabitants of the fame for the faid purpose : and that a ... Council , and Affembly of the faid province . The amount of thefe quit - rents and other royal dues in America ...
... Councils , and Affemblies of the faid provinces to lay on the inhabitants of the fame for the faid purpose : and that a ... Council , and Affembly of the faid province . The amount of thefe quit - rents and other royal dues in America ...
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... Council , Register of deeds and patents , or clerk of the inrolments of deeds and patents , Provoft - marshal , or fheriff , Commiffary of ftores , Receiver - general of the king's révenue , Coroners , clerks , or regifters , of the ...
... Council , Register of deeds and patents , or clerk of the inrolments of deeds and patents , Provoft - marshal , or fheriff , Commiffary of ftores , Receiver - general of the king's révenue , Coroners , clerks , or regifters , of the ...
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Página 204 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 248 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 245 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Página 204 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 221 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Página 106 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Página 204 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 243 - ... backwardest scholars, of whom God offered to have made us the teachers. Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy...
Página 242 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it, (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional,) this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral and inwardly divided...
Página 229 - And how can a man teach with authority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licenser to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humour which he calls his judgment?