The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 40 |
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Page 901 - Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise any Powers of Government in or over any Foreign State, Colony, Province, or Part of any Province or People...
Page 31 - Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrifice of the mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 901 - ... for the purpose and with the intent of enlisting or entering to serve or to be employed, or of serving, or being engaged or employed in...
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Page 577 - ... they cannot easily be mistaken, I therefore appoint no visitor of this foundation. But if any errors or mistakes have been committed, or complaint shall hereafter arise touching the execution of any of these orders or statutes, for the rectifying the same I do direct that application be always made to the Lord High Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the great seal of Great Britain, that the same may be heard by way of petition or such other summary manner as his Lordship in his wisdom shall appoint,...
Page 27 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 195 - An act for granting during the continuance of the present war, and until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, an additional bounty OB the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.
Page 701 - If solvency alone was a sufficient proof that there v, as no excess of circulation, the theory of Mr. Law was just, and the land, as well as the funds, might be safely converted into a circulating medium. There was, in fact, no test of excess or deficiency, but a comparison with the price of gold. This was not indicated by theory alone ; the last few years had afforded abundant experience to support and confirm it.
Page 693 - I well remember, when the near and dear relation alluded to was a child, I observed to some friends that the man who discharged his duty to his country in the manner Mr Pitt had done, was...
Page 901 - Act, in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.