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... English at least four distinct sounds , as heard in ale , man , father , all . Of these , the third may be considered its primitive and proper sound ; it is its name - sound in perhaps all lan- guages except English , and is that which ...
... English at least four distinct sounds , as heard in ale , man , father , all . Of these , the third may be considered its primitive and proper sound ; it is its name - sound in perhaps all lan- guages except English , and is that which ...
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... English travellers and mission- aries as agents employed by the French government for religious and political purposes ; and were accused of inducing Prince Ubie to expel the Lutheran missionaries from Adoa . Arnould returned a second ...
... English travellers and mission- aries as agents employed by the French government for religious and political purposes ; and were accused of inducing Prince Ubie to expel the Lutheran missionaries from Adoa . Arnould returned a second ...
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... English prelate under the Stuarts - chiefly remarkable for the position he held , and the part he acted , as the opponent of the policy of Laud and a despotic court - was the son of a cloth - manufacturer in Guilford , and was born 1562 ...
... English prelate under the Stuarts - chiefly remarkable for the position he held , and the part he acted , as the opponent of the policy of Laud and a despotic court - was the son of a cloth - manufacturer in Guilford , and was born 1562 ...
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... English astronomer Bradley , in 1727 , while seeking to determine the parallax of certain fixed stars . B ' ABERYSTWITH , a seaport and municipal and parliamentary borough , in Cardiganshire , Wales . with a tonnage of 29,000 . A. is ...
... English astronomer Bradley , in 1727 , while seeking to determine the parallax of certain fixed stars . B ' ABERYSTWITH , a seaport and municipal and parliamentary borough , in Cardiganshire , Wales . with a tonnage of 29,000 . A. is ...
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... English law on the subject is now regulated by the 7 Will . IV . and 1 Vict . c . 85 , s . 6 , which makes the offence felony , and subjects offenders to transportation for life , or for not less than fifteen years , or to be imprisoned ...
... English law on the subject is now regulated by the 7 Will . IV . and 1 Vict . c . 85 , s . 6 , which makes the offence felony , and subjects offenders to transportation for life , or for not less than fifteen years , or to be imprisoned ...
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Page 42 - 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 15 - Attempts whatever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Treasons and traitorous Conspiracies which may be formed against him or them...
Page 146 - 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 15 - I do declare, that I do not believe, that the Pope of Rome or any other foreign Prince, Prelate, 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 332 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 146 - Kingdom, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign State of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that State in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect.
Page 10 - 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 41 - Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career.
Page 42 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.
Page 146 - 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...