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... born at Modena in 1509 or 1512 , and died at Paris in 1571. He was an able and skilful artist in fresco - painting , and was a follower both of Raphael and Correggio ; yet he rather blent the two styles in one than imitated either ...
... born at Modena in 1509 or 1512 , and died at Paris in 1571. He was an able and skilful artist in fresco - painting , and was a follower both of Raphael and Correggio ; yet he rather blent the two styles in one than imitated either ...
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... born in 1803 , and graduated at Bowdoin College well as all abbots who belonged to the monastic in 1820. He is a remarkably voluminous writer , order , were styled Regular Abbots . In France , the abuse of appointing secular abbots was ...
... born in 1803 , and graduated at Bowdoin College well as all abbots who belonged to the monastic in 1820. He is a remarkably voluminous writer , order , were styled Regular Abbots . In France , the abuse of appointing secular abbots was ...
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... born at Bagdad in 1161. During his youth , he underwent an amazing amount of mental drudgery , in accordance with the eastern fashion of his time , in order to fit himself for becoming a scholar . committing to memory a large number of ...
... born at Bagdad in 1161. During his youth , he underwent an amazing amount of mental drudgery , in accordance with the eastern fashion of his time , in order to fit himself for becoming a scholar . committing to memory a large number of ...
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... ( born 1803 ; died 1873 ) . ABEL appears in the book of Genesis as the second son of Adam , and a shepherd . He was slain by his elder brother Cain , under the influence of jealousy , because the offering of the latter had been rejected ...
... ( born 1803 ; died 1873 ) . ABEL appears in the book of Genesis as the second son of Adam , and a shepherd . He was slain by his elder brother Cain , under the influence of jealousy , because the offering of the latter had been rejected ...
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... born on the 6th of May 1822 , and succeeded his father , Mahmud II . , July 1 , 1839. The Turkish Empire was then in a very dangerous position . The army had been defeated and dispersed by the Egyp- tians in the battle of Nisib ( June ...
... born on the 6th of May 1822 , and succeeded his father , Mahmud II . , July 1 , 1839. The Turkish Empire was then in a very dangerous position . The army had been defeated and dispersed by the Egyp- tians in the battle of Nisib ( June ...
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Page 11 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 11 - I do declare, that I do not believe, that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 38 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 142 - Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject ; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien, in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject...
Page 8 - IV. c. 31, by sect. 19 of which it is enacted that where any woman shall have any interest, whether legal or equitable, present or future, absolute, conditional, or contingent, in any real or personal estate, or shall be an heiress presumptive, or next of kin to any...
Page 11 - Majesty, her heirs, and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which succession, by an Act, intituled, " An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 38 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.
Page 142 - Where Her Majesty has entered into a convention with any foreign State to the effect that the subjects or citizens of that State who have been naturalised as British subjects may divest themselves of their status as such subjects...
Page 11 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of...
Page 11 - I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the protestant religion or protestant government in the United Kingdom : And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever. So help me God.