Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature, Volumen3Edward Augustus Kendall Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, 1811 |
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Página 37
... officers , who sit daily . To this court is committed the charge and supervision of the royal house - hold in matters of justice and government , with power to correct all offenders , and to maintain the peace of the verge . Without a ...
... officers , who sit daily . To this court is committed the charge and supervision of the royal house - hold in matters of justice and government , with power to correct all offenders , and to maintain the peace of the verge . Without a ...
Página 39
... officers keep a good looking out , calling to the guard - boat as she passes , and not suffering her crew to come on board , without having previously communicated the watch word of the night . GUARD - ship , à vessel of war appointed ...
... officers keep a good looking out , calling to the guard - boat as she passes , and not suffering her crew to come on board , without having previously communicated the watch word of the night . GUARD - ship , à vessel of war appointed ...
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... officer in chan çery , who receives all monies due to the crown , and has the custody of the charters , and other in . ' struments upon which such monies accrue , which at present he deposits in bags , but formerly , it is supposed , in ...
... officer in chan çery , who receives all monies due to the crown , and has the custody of the charters , and other in . ' struments upon which such monies accrue , which at present he deposits in bags , but formerly , it is supposed , in ...
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... officer , whose duty it antiently was , to denounce war , to challenge in battle and combat , to proclaim peace , and to execute martial messages ; but who is , at present , to conduct royal processions and ceremonies , creations of no ...
... officer , whose duty it antiently was , to denounce war , to challenge in battle and combat , to proclaim peace , and to execute martial messages ; but who is , at present , to conduct royal processions and ceremonies , creations of no ...
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... officer who holds it . Impaling is most usually effected by placing the two coats side by side upon one shield , divided by a line of partition in pale ; namely , a line drawn through the middle chief and the middle base points . See ...
... officer who holds it . Impaling is most usually effected by placing the two coats side by side upon one shield , divided by a line of partition in pale ; namely , a line drawn through the middle chief and the middle base points . See ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 359 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Página 45 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term-time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Página 319 - Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.
Página 5 - A Proposition, is something which is either proposed to be done, or to be demonstrated, and is either a problem or a theorem.
Página 5 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line called the circumference, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as ABD E.
Página 228 - But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase ; and in consideration of receiving the advantages of mutual commerce, obliges himself to conform to those laws, which the community has thought proper to establish.
Página 361 - Odin is believed to have been the name of the one true god among the first colonies who came from the East, and peopled Germany and Scandinavia, and among their posterity for several ages.
Página 327 - The study of natural history, simple, beautiful, and instructive, consists in the collection, arrangement, and exhibition of the various productions of the earth.
Página 333 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 144 - An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury.