Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: From the Reformation, to the Present Time, Volume 3 |
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... exercise of this important privilege of judicature . 1. The introduction of the practice of barring entails by common recoveries and fines , which the judges interpreted to be real , though they knew them to be fictitious processes : 2 ...
... exercise of this important privilege of judicature . 1. The introduction of the practice of barring entails by common recoveries and fines , which the judges interpreted to be real , though they knew them to be fictitious processes : 2 ...
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... exercise of it was always useful , and some- times necessary for answering the purposes government , and thus the popes became possessed , indirectly of temporal power . of Such was the situation of the popes , at the com- mencement of ...
... exercise of it was always useful , and some- times necessary for answering the purposes government , and thus the popes became possessed , indirectly of temporal power . of Such was the situation of the popes , at the com- mencement of ...
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... exercise of their spiritual power , within this imperial realm ' • The subject of this chapter is exhausted by lord Coke , in his treatise De Jure Regis Ecclesiastico , prefixed to the fifth volume of his Reports , and the answer to it ...
... exercise of their spiritual power , within this imperial realm ' • The subject of this chapter is exhausted by lord Coke , in his treatise De Jure Regis Ecclesiastico , prefixed to the fifth volume of his Reports , and the answer to it ...
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... exercise , by their own proper ministry , that spi- " ritual peace , which unites the faithful in one heart " and ... exercising the ad- " ministration of the temporal peace and law , they are also ministers of God , and consequently of ...
... exercise , by their own proper ministry , that spi- " ritual peace , which unites the faithful in one heart " and ... exercising the ad- " ministration of the temporal peace and law , they are also ministers of God , and consequently of ...
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... exercise of severity " and the application to secular affairs , the actual " exercise of the material sword , which flashes with " the terror of just severity , and the administration " of the temporal , which is clouded with the dark ...
... exercise of severity " and the application to secular affairs , the actual " exercise of the material sword , which flashes with " the terror of just severity , and the administration " of the temporal , which is clouded with the dark ...
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Page xxxiii - ... every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest...
Page 137 - An Act for [the] Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments...
Page xxxii - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page xxxii - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page xxxiii - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.
Page xxviii - I do not fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more,— I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right...
Page xxvii - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as...
Page xxviii - ... keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Page xxxiii - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page xxxii - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treat)- and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.