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24 Keys Abbot Act of Tynwald aforesaid ancient anti-papal Barons Bishop Wilson British Isles called Captain Castle Rushen Castletown century charter Christian church clergy Code Stanley commons Comptroler confirmed constitution Council crown Crowner dayes declared Deemsters Demester despotism Douglas Duke Earl of Derby Earl's ecclesiastical England estates fealty feudal give Glenfaba Governor grace Gybbon hath heirs Henry VIII honour houlden Ireland Island James Keyes King Stanley King's kingdom land legislative Lieutenant Livetenant Livetenante Lord Lord's Lordship Manx nation Marown oath offended officers ordayned Papacy Papal parish Parliament Patrick paye person Pope prerogative priestly priests reason received reformation Richard Rome saye Scotland servants seventh Earl shew Sir John Stanley Sodor spiritual Stanley kings Stanley's statute tenants thereof Thomas twenty-four Keys tyme Tynwald Court Tynwald Day Tynwald Hill tyth unto Vicar whosoever William Willm wthin Wycliffe xxiiij
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Page 167 - Evil be thou my good : by thee, at least, Divided empire with heaven's King I hold : By thee, and more than half, perhaps, will reign, As man, ere long, and this new world, shall know.
Page 160 - And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast saying. Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Page 159 - And whipped the offending Adam out of him ; Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 157 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 164 - But in these cases We' still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.
Page 171 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 157 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 170 - And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 129 - I am, with great truth and regard, Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant, LANSDOWNE.