History of the Thirty Years' Peace. A. D. 1816-1846, Volume 4G. Bell, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... lived under that law ; and it was no easy matter for professional men to attain any competent knowledge of it . The criminal law of England was contained in an immense and confused mass of docu- ments - statutes , ancient and modern ...
... lived under that law ; and it was no easy matter for professional men to attain any competent knowledge of it . The criminal law of England was contained in an immense and confused mass of docu- ments - statutes , ancient and modern ...
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... lived to this time , we might have been released from the game - laws , which are a disgrace to our law - books , to our practice of professing reform of abuses , and to the praise we utter in our churches of justice and mercy , and ...
... lived to this time , we might have been released from the game - laws , which are a disgrace to our law - books , to our practice of professing reform of abuses , and to the praise we utter in our churches of justice and mercy , and ...
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... lived a family of the name of Darling . The night of the 6th of September 1838 was stormy ; and the Forfarshire steam - boat , whose boiler was in bad order , struck on one of the Fern Islands , and parted in two . Darling , becoming ...
... lived a family of the name of Darling . The night of the 6th of September 1838 was stormy ; and the Forfarshire steam - boat , whose boiler was in bad order , struck on one of the Fern Islands , and parted in two . Darling , becoming ...
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... lived , there is every probability that he would have effected more in completing the discovery of a North - west Passage than any other man ; and an appointment was on the way to him which would have afforded him every facility . His ...
... lived , there is every probability that he would have effected more in completing the discovery of a North - west Passage than any other man ; and an appointment was on the way to him which would have afforded him every facility . His ...
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... lived in his house for some years ; but the greater part of her life was spent in the east , where she went in a spirit of pride , where she gained at first wonderful influence by her imposing pride , and whence she had too much pride ...
... lived in his house for some years ; but the greater part of her life was spent in the east , where she went in a spirit of pride , where she gained at first wonderful influence by her imposing pride , and whence she had too much pride ...
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Page 196 - and other extraneous persons, entirely unconcerned in this adventure of his, to steal from him his small winnings, for a space of sixty years at the shortest. After sixty years, unless your honourable House provide otherwise, they may begin to steal. ' And your petitioner will ever pray. •THOMAS CAKLYLE.