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Side 28
... presides in the House of Lords ? A. The Lord High Chancellor , or Keeper of the Great Seal , or any other person appointed by Royal com- mission . Q. What is the woolsack of the House of Lords ? A. It is a real woolsack covered with ...
... presides in the House of Lords ? A. The Lord High Chancellor , or Keeper of the Great Seal , or any other person appointed by Royal com- mission . Q. What is the woolsack of the House of Lords ? A. It is a real woolsack covered with ...
Side 42
... An officer of the greatest legal weight and power in the kingdom . He takes precedence of every temporal lord . Q. What is his power and employment ? A. As we have before seen , he presides in 42 THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF.
... An officer of the greatest legal weight and power in the kingdom . He takes precedence of every temporal lord . Q. What is his power and employment ? A. As we have before seen , he presides in 42 THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF.
Side 43
... presides . His badge of office is a white rod , which he breaks when the coronation or trial is over . Q. Who is the Lord President of the Council ? A. An officer whose duty it is to propose the business at the Council Board , and to ...
... presides . His badge of office is a white rod , which he breaks when the coronation or trial is over . Q. Who is the Lord President of the Council ? A. An officer whose duty it is to propose the business at the Council Board , and to ...
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... presides at this assembly ? A. A person called the Lord High Commissioner , who is generally a nobleman of rank appointed by and representing the Sovereign . Ecclesiastical , belonging to the Church ( Gr . , 52 THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF.
... presides at this assembly ? A. A person called the Lord High Commissioner , who is generally a nobleman of rank appointed by and representing the Sovereign . Ecclesiastical , belonging to the Church ( Gr . , 52 THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF.
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... presides in the Court of Queen's Bench ? A. The Lord Chief Justice of England , assisted by four judges . Q. What is the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas ? A. This Court decides all actions between subjects in which the Queen ...
... presides in the Court of Queen's Bench ? A. The Lord Chief Justice of England , assisted by four judges . Q. What is the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas ? A. This Court decides all actions between subjects in which the Queen ...
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Side 45 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold. And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Side 32 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Side 66 - The great are always obnoxious to popular envy ; were they to be judged by the people, they might be in danger from the prejudice of their judges, and would moreover be deprived of the privilege of the...
Side 12 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.
Side 31 - ... a share in both. Were the legislative body to be a considerable time without meeting, this would likewise put an end to liberty. For of two things one would naturally follow; either that there would be no longer any legislative resolutions, and then the state would fall into anarchy; or that these resolutions would be taken by the executive power, which would render it absolute.
Side 11 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil...
Side 1 - There is no civil government that hath been known, no, not the Spartan, not the Roman, though both for this respect so much praised by the wise Polybius, more divinely and harmoniously tuned, more equally balanced as it were by the hand and scale of justice, than \ is the commonwealth of England...
Side 95 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Side 11 - By public exigence till annual food Fails for the craving hunger of the state, Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among the nations, seeing thou art free.
Side 102 - Married women and widows are entitled to the same rank among each other, as their husbands would respectively have borne between themselves, except such rank is merely professional or official; and unmarried women to the same rank as their eldest brothers would bear among men, during the lives of their fathers.