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Página 681 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Página 521 - I expected in this daring flight his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament. Yes, he did make you his quarry, and you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage.
Página 721 - ... confusion which followed in France soon made it necessary to recall a minister of so much talent, and he was advanced to the post of chancellor. Although patronised by the house of Guise, and obliged to acquiesce in many things which he disapproved, to prevent a great deal that he disapproved more, he never ceased to advocate toleration, and was the principal author of the edict of 1562, which allowed freedom of worship to Protestants. By this conduct he rendered himself exceedingly odious to...
Página 575 - From the Atlantic to the Ganges the Koran is acknowledged as the fundamental code, not only of theology but of civil and criminal jurisprudence ; and the laws which regulate the actions and the property of mankind are guarded by the infallible and immutable sanction of the will of God.
Página 633 - Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
Página 788 - ... apply his studies to politics and philosophy. By his acquaintance with this nobleman, Mr Locke was introduced to the duke of Buckingham, the earl of Halifax, and others of the most eminent persons of their day. In 1668, at the request of the earl and countess of Northumberland, he accompanied them in a tour to France ; and on his return was employed by lord Ashley, then chancellor of the exchequer, in drawing up the fundamental constitutions of the American state of Carolina.
Página 578 - ... have to observe is, whether the depth continues the same, which they know by their lines, or whether it grows shallower by their seeming to have less water. If this last be the case, they find...
Página 579 - In the year 1680, a kraken, perhaps a young and careless one, came into the water that runs between the rocks and cliffs in the parish of Alstahoug, though the general custom of that creature is to keep always several leagues from land, and therefore, of course, they must die there.
Página 464 - In 1776 he was chosen president of the congress, in 1777 he was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of New York, and in the following year he woe appointed chief justice of that state.
Página 574 - ... him in effigy at the cross at Edinburgh. Against this sentence he drew up an energetic appeal, which was printed at Geneva in 1558, previously to which he was invited to return to Scotland, and had actually reached Dieppe on his way, when he received other letters recommending delay; which epistles he answered by such strong remonstrances against timidity and backsliding, that those to whom he addressed them entered into a solemn bond or covenant, dated Dec.