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Pàgina 25 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Pàgina 91 - Your triumphant election on the 16th, and ejection from the Assembly on the 17th, must hasten that crisis which is fast approaching in the affairs of the Canadas, and which will terminate in freedom and independence from the baneful domination of the mother country...
Pàgina 169 - Eliz. c. 12, which recites the immemorial usage of policies of assurance, " by means whereof it cometh to pass, upon the loss or perishing of any ship, there followeth not the undoing of any man, but the loss lighteth rather easily upon many than heavy upon few, and rather upon them that adventure not than upon those that do adventure : whereby all merchants, especially those of the younger sort, are allured to venture more willingly and more freely...
Pàgina 563 - With all its imperfections, however, we may perhaps say of it what was said of the laws of Solon, that, though not the best in itself, it is the best which the interests, prejudices, and temper of the times would admit of. It may perhaps in due time prepare the way for a better.
Pàgina 483 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Pàgina 651 - Malo, and there confiscated upon some groundless pretence. As soon as the master of the ship, who was an honest Quaker, got home, he presented a petition to the Protector in Council, setting forth his case, and praying for redress. Upon hearing the petition, the Protector told his Council he would take that affair upon himself, and ordered the man to attend him next morning. He examined him strictly as to all the circumstances of his case, and finding by his answers that he was a plain, honest man,...
Pàgina 653 - Madrid to make a fresh representation on this subject, and to claim such full and adequate satisfaction as the nature of the case evidently requires. And under these circumstances his Majesty, having also received information that considerable armaments...
Pàgina 651 - Next morning he gave him a letter to Cardinal Mazarin, and told him he must stay but three days for an answer. " The answer I mean," says he, " is the full value of what you might have made of your ship and cargo ; and tell the cardinal, that if it is not paid you in three days, you have express orders from me to return home.
Pàgina 323 - ... into full effect the parochial economy of the Established Church. The evils which flow from this deficiency in the means of religious instruction and pastoral superintendence greatly outweigh all other inconveniences resulting from any defects or anomalies in our ecclesiastical institutions ; and it unfortunately happens, that while these evils are the most urgent of all, and most require the application of an effectual remedy, they are precisely those for which a remedy cau be least easily found.
Pàgina 651 - Council he would take that affair upon himself, and ordered the man to attend him next morning. He examined him strictly as to all the circumstances of his case, and finding by his answers that he was a plain, honest man, and that he had been concerned in no unlawful trade, he asked him if he could go to Paris with a letter ? The man answered he could. * Well, then,' says the Protector, 'prepare for your journey, and come to me to-morrow morning.

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