Unjust Proclamation ... Don Miguel as King of Portugal: Or an Analysis and Juridical Refutation of the Act ... Dedicated to ... Dona Maria II, Queen Regnant of Portugal

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R. Greenlaw, 1829 - Portugal - 243 pages
 

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Page 63 - ... and he will take your fields and your vineyards, and your olive yards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give them to his officers and to his servants...
Page 64 - And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep and ye shall be his servants: And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Page 63 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and /tome shall run before his chariots.
Page 79 - God, king of Portugal and the Algraves of this side, and beyond th« sea in Africa, lord of Guinea and of the conquest, navigation and commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India, Sic.
Page 96 - I find myself fully authorized to take possession of the regency of the above-mentioned kingdoms. Determined to maintain inviolate the laws of the kingdom, and the institutions legally granted by our august brother, and which we have all sworn to maintain and to cause to be observed, and to rule by them the above-mentioned kingdoms, it is proper that I should so declare it, that you may have the goodness, my dear sister, to give to that solemn declaration the required publicity, and that you may...
Page 15 - Llena de regocijo voy á congratularme con vosotros por la buena y sabia constitución que el augusto congreso de las cortes acaba de jurar y publicar con tanto aplauso de todos, y muy particularmente...
Page 16 - ... su legítimo soberano y del valor y constancia con que defienden sus derechos y los de toda la nación; guardando exactamente la Constitución venceremos y arrollaremos al tirano usurpador de la Europa.
Page 98 - Roman Catholic Religion, and the integrity of the kingdom ; to observe, and cause to be observed, the political Constitution of the Portuguese nation, and other laws of the land ; and to forward the general welfare of the nation as far as shall lay in my power.
Page 113 - ... exclude from the right of Succession to the Crown of Portugal, the actual first-born of the distinguished House of Braganza, and in his person, as in law obviously acknowledged, necessarily all his descendants.
Page 113 - Cortes and laws of Lisbon exclude him, in accordance with those of Lamego. Deprived of present, future, and morally speaking, all possible residence within the Kingdom, he was in like manner excluded by the Letters Patent of 1642.

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