The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 35A. Constable, 1821 |
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... course of their proceedings - ad discernenda jura et dubia determinanda quæ frequenter ex incidentibus quæsti- onibus oriuntur . § For it must be remembered , that , independ- ent of the office they held in the Exchequer , the Barons of ...
... course of their proceedings - ad discernenda jura et dubia determinanda quæ frequenter ex incidentibus quæsti- onibus oriuntur . § For it must be remembered , that , independ- ent of the office they held in the Exchequer , the Barons of ...
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... course of his reign ; one for imposing military tenures , and the other for amending the laws of King Edward . They are inclined to think , that the act , separating the civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions , ema- nated from his sole ...
... course of his reign ; one for imposing military tenures , and the other for amending the laws of King Edward . They are inclined to think , that the act , separating the civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions , ema- nated from his sole ...
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... course on his sub- jects ; but it does not appear , ' they add , that any Com- mon Council of the kingdom was summoned for this purpose . If they had looked into Hoveden , † they would have found that , on intelligence being brought to ...
... course on his sub- jects ; but it does not appear , ' they add , that any Com- mon Council of the kingdom was summoned for this purpose . If they had looked into Hoveden , † they would have found that , on intelligence being brought to ...
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... course of justice , and the new constitu- tion of judiciary tribunals , had not , on the whole , increased and extended the royal authority . If it stood on a less solid founda- tion , certain it is , that it was become more vexatious ...
... course of justice , and the new constitu- tion of judiciary tribunals , had not , on the whole , increased and extended the royal authority . If it stood on a less solid founda- tion , certain it is , that it was become more vexatious ...
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... have fallen , in the course of their long and arduous investigation . They evidently incline to the opinion , that none but tenants 6 If in chief were originally electors of Knights of 26 March History of the English Legislature .
... have fallen , in the course of their long and arduous investigation . They evidently incline to the opinion , that none but tenants 6 If in chief were originally electors of Knights of 26 March History of the English Legislature .
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Seite 282 - Then — in the last gasp of thine agony, Amidst thy many murders, think of mine ! Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes ! Gehenna of the waters ! thou sea Sodom ! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods ! Thee and thy serpent seed...
Seite 198 - ... 1 . That the multiplicity and length of suits is great. 2. That the contentious person is armed, and the honest subject wearied and oppressed. 3. That the judge is more absolute ; who, in doubtful cases, hath a greater stroke and liberty. 4. That the chancery courts are more filled, the remedy of law being often obscure and doubtful. 5. That the ignorant lawyer shroudeth his ignorance of law, in that doubts are so frequent and many.
Seite 326 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Seite 45 - So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order, so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Seite 270 - ROME in the NINETEENTH CENTURY. Containing a complete Account of the Ruins of the Ancient City, the Remains of the Middle Ages, and the Monuments of Modern Times.
Seite 281 - And fill'd my swelling sails as they were wafted To many a triumph ! Thou my native earth, Which I have bled for, and thou foreign earth...
Seite 454 - I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will not receive any recommendations, having positively resolved to confer it on him as a mark of that regard which his eminent services have deserved from me.
Seite 270 - ... original, being indeed merely another Venice Preserved; and continually recalling, though certainly without eclipsing, the memory of the first. Except that Jaffier is driven to join the conspirators by the natural impulse of love and misery, and the Doge...
Seite 315 - That man will take away all the people of Africa if he can catch them ; and if you ask him, But why do you take away all these people ? he will say, Oh, they are only black people — they are not like white people — why should I not take them ? That is the reason why I cannot forgive the man who takes away the character of the people of my country.
Seite 329 - The frequent occurrence of the unexecuted threat of death in a criminal code, tends to rob that punishment of all its terrors, and to enervate the general authority of the government and the laws. The multiplication of this threat in the laws of England has brought on them, and on the nation, a character of harshness andcruelty which evidence of a mild administration of them will not entirely remove.