The History of Progress in Great Britain: commerce, manufactures, religious liberty, civil libertyHoulston and Wright, 1860 |
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... living interest to us , of such questions as the Progress of Civil and Religious Liberty ? While thus indicating our sense of the importance of these subjects , let us not be supposed to be unaware how little we ourselves have been able ...
... living interest to us , of such questions as the Progress of Civil and Religious Liberty ? While thus indicating our sense of the importance of these subjects , let us not be supposed to be unaware how little we ourselves have been able ...
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... living . The following anecdote of William Rufus and his chamberlain , narrated in the Harleian MSS . , gives an insight into the value of cloth hose at that time , and indicates that in those simple days the king's chamberlain had ...
... living . The following anecdote of William Rufus and his chamberlain , narrated in the Harleian MSS . , gives an insight into the value of cloth hose at that time , and indicates that in those simple days the king's chamberlain had ...
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... tended to prevent the free expanse of improvement . One of the restrictions of this kind was an Act passed in the reign of Henry VIII . , prohibiting all persons 26 RIOTS AGAINST FOREIGNERS . living in Worcestershire , but.
... tended to prevent the free expanse of improvement . One of the restrictions of this kind was an Act passed in the reign of Henry VIII . , prohibiting all persons 26 RIOTS AGAINST FOREIGNERS . living in Worcestershire , but.
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Robert Kemp Philp. 26 RIOTS AGAINST FOREIGNERS . living in Worcestershire , but the inhabitants of Worcester , Evesham , Droitwich , Kidderminster , and Bromsgrove , from manufacturing cloth . In the early part of the same reign the ...
Robert Kemp Philp. 26 RIOTS AGAINST FOREIGNERS . living in Worcestershire , but the inhabitants of Worcester , Evesham , Droitwich , Kidderminster , and Bromsgrove , from manufacturing cloth . In the early part of the same reign the ...
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... living at Standhill , near Blackburn , about 1764. He is said to have conceived the idea of his invention from having seen a spinning - wheel overturned , and whilst lying on the floor the wheel and spindle continued to revolve . The ...
... living at Standhill , near Blackburn , about 1764. He is said to have conceived the idea of his invention from having seen a spinning - wheel overturned , and whilst lying on the floor the wheel and spindle continued to revolve . The ...
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Էջ 335 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his...
Էջ 64 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Էջ 342 - 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.
Էջ 342 - 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.
Էջ 303 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet, And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet, And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet.
Էջ 275 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor,...
Էջ 342 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Էջ 353 - If the meaning of these words, finding against the direction of the court in matter of law, be, that if the judge, having heard the' evidence given in court, (for he knows no other) shall tell the jury upon this evidence.
Էջ 250 - If the gallows instead of the counter, and the galleys instead of the fines, were the reward of going to a conventicle to preach or hear, there would not be so many sufferers. The spirit of martyrdom is over; they that will go to church to be chosen sheriffs and mayors, would go to forty churches rather than be hanged. If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of...
Էջ 314 - I, because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God: What, said he, surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein? No, by the faith I bear to God...