An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - Ireland |
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Page 239
... residents that were left were unequal to the task of supporting the public burdens . This being represented to the king , it was ordained by a new law , that the absentees should either repair to + Ibid . P. 329 . * Leland , vol . i . p ...
... residents that were left were unequal to the task of supporting the public burdens . This being represented to the king , it was ordained by a new law , that the absentees should either repair to + Ibid . P. 329 . * Leland , vol . i . p ...
Page 296
... This family is of German extraction , and has been resident in Kent from the time of Edward II . This family were originally of the county of Fife , Scotland . RADSTOCK , GLENBERVIE , Title . RENDELSHAM , BARONS . 296 PEERAGE .
... This family is of German extraction , and has been resident in Kent from the time of Edward II . This family were originally of the county of Fife , Scotland . RADSTOCK , GLENBERVIE , Title . RENDELSHAM , BARONS . 296 PEERAGE .
Page 306
... resident in this county ; the members are returned by the successful influence of extensive territo . rial property , in the families of Clements and Latouche . may LIMERICK County . - The Earl of Clare can recommend one member ; the ...
... resident in this county ; the members are returned by the successful influence of extensive territo . rial property , in the families of Clements and Latouche . may LIMERICK County . - The Earl of Clare can recommend one member ; the ...
Page 309
... resident freemen and freeholders .匪 Dungarvon Borough . - The Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Water- ford have each large property in this town , and the right of suffrage being vested in the freeholders on their estates , the ...
... resident freemen and freeholders .匪 Dungarvon Borough . - The Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Water- ford have each large property in this town , and the right of suffrage being vested in the freeholders on their estates , the ...
Page 323
... resident minister , really discharg- ing all the duties of his office , might accomplish every thing requisite , without en- tailing on the country the burden of an expensive establishment , or spreading the contagious example of the ...
... resident minister , really discharg- ing all the duties of his office , might accomplish every thing requisite , without en- tailing on the country the burden of an expensive establishment , or spreading the contagious example of the ...
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Page 396 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 509 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 509 - 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 read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 508 - Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any Person whatsoever : And 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 508 - Him 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 263 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 677 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life.
Page 508 - 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 this realm...
Page 512 - Is there any principle in the tenets of the Catholic Faith, by which Catholics are justified in not keeping faith with heretics, or other persons differing from them in religious opinions, in any transaction, either of a public or a private nature...
Page 501 - OF all the monstrous passions and opinions which have crept into the world, there is none so wonderful as that those, who profess the common name of Christians, should pursue each other with rancour and hatred for differences in their way of following the example of their Saviour. It seems so natural that all who pursue the steps of any leader should form themselves after his...