The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Τόμος 18H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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Σελίδα 275 - 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.
Σελίδα 273 - ... the matters to be established for the estate 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 realm, according as had been before accustomed.
Σελίδα 273 - In reply, the kiug granted that "from henceforth nothing be enacted to the petitions of his commons that be contrary to their asking, whereby they should be bound without their assent...
Σελίδα 264 - means a place for which a separate poor rate is or can be made, or for which a separate overseer is or can be appointed...
Σελίδα 284 - The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Edinburgh in 1877; DCL by Oxford in 1893; and Sc.D.
Σελίδα 12 - However, he was not the first nor will he be the last to fall short in this respect.
Σελίδα 269 - Christianity is a simple thing, very simple. It is absolute, pure morality; absolute, pure religion— the love of man; the love of God acting without let or hindrance. The only creed it lays down is the great truth which springs up spontaneous in the holy heart— there is a God.
Σελίδα 275 - Majesty to let you know, that her Majesty will, as soon as the Members of both Houses shall be sworn, declare to you the causes of her calling this Parliament ; and it being necessary that a Speaker of the House of Commons should be first chosen...
Σελίδα 4 - Enluminées d'histoire naturelle, which appearing in forty-two parts was not completed till 1780, when the plates1 it contained reached the number of 1008 — all coloured, as its .title intimates, and nearly all representing Birds. This enormous work was subsidized by the French Government ; and, though the figures are utterly devoid of artistic merit, they display the species they are intended to depict with sufficient approach to fidelity to ensure recognition in most cases without fear of error,...
Σελίδα 277 - House, the Committee of Supply and the Committee of Ways and Means. The...