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Σελίδα 192 - has said in a famous passage, ' so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of
Σελίδα 34 - by which their rights and privileges were recognised, they pray the king ' that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such-like charge, without common consent by act of parliament,—that none be called upon to make answer for refusal
Σελίδα 34 - and customs of the realm, and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrongs or oppressions contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself in conscience obliged
Σελίδα 190 - honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not ofthat number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Σελίδα 268 - top into a sort of branches; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got ready ; but as he was coming out of the house with
Σελίδα 34 - into their houses against the laws and customs of the realm,—that commissions for proceeding by martial law be revoked: all which they pray as their rights and liberties according to the laws and statutes of the realm.' To this petition the king at first sent an evasive answer: 'The king willeth that right be done according to the law» and customs of the realm, and
Σελίδα 406 - that which results from the positive checks to population, namely, unwholesome occupations, severe labour, and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars,
Σελίδα 450 - to the intent and purpose that by virtue of these presents and of the statute for transferring uses into possession, the said AB may be in the actual possession of the premises, and be thereby enabled to take and accept a grant and release of the freehold, reversion, and inheritance,
Σελίδα 406 - violation of the marriage bed, and improper arts to conceal the consequences of irregular connections, are included under the head of Vice. Those positive checks which appear to arise unavoidably from the laws of nature may be called exclusively Misery. Such are the
Σελίδα 46 - there is a very close resemblance with the Albatross, and as with the latter bird a person may watch it for hours together without seeing on what it feeds, so it is with this petrel. The Break-bones is however a rapacious bird, for it was observed by some of the