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... laws to receive any interest for their money , and the fenators were reftricted by the civil laws from receiv- ing fo much intereft as other perfons re- ceived * . THEODOSIUS , * It feems ftrange that money fhould not , like every ...
... laws to receive any interest for their money , and the fenators were reftricted by the civil laws from receiv- ing fo much intereft as other perfons re- ceived * . THEODOSIUS , * It feems ftrange that money fhould not , like every ...
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... Laws , " Let all the judges , all the common " people in cities , and all the artizans be at " reft on the venerable ... Laws against ufury , as it is called , promote the evil which they were intended to remedy ; and it has been ...
... Laws , " Let all the judges , all the common " people in cities , and all the artizans be at " reft on the venerable ... Laws against ufury , as it is called , promote the evil which they were intended to remedy ; and it has been ...
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... law and right it is allow'd To do fome certain works on holy - days . Scævola , the great Roman lawyer , according to Macrobius , being asked what work might be performed on an holy - day , replied , " That " which , if left undone ...
... law and right it is allow'd To do fome certain works on holy - days . Scævola , the great Roman lawyer , according to Macrobius , being asked what work might be performed on an holy - day , replied , " That " which , if left undone ...
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... laws of this Prince ; they were , however , foftened by bodily penances and commutations . The perfons of wealth or power might be affifted by others in discharg- ing them ; they might felect as many perfons to faft with them and for ...
... laws of this Prince ; they were , however , foftened by bodily penances and commutations . The perfons of wealth or power might be affifted by others in discharg- ing them ; they might felect as many perfons to faft with them and for ...
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... made defolate . " CC William had indeed fworn at the high altar of the Abbey of St. Alban's upon the Evange- lifts , and the shrine of that Saint , to observe and and keep inviolate the ancient laws of the land , BIOGRAPHIANA .
... made defolate . " CC William had indeed fworn at the high altar of the Abbey of St. Alban's upon the Evange- lifts , and the shrine of that Saint , to observe and and keep inviolate the ancient laws of the land , BIOGRAPHIANA .
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Page 4 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Page 99 - After dinner, the king called for Latimer, and, with a stern countenance, asked him, how he durst be so bold as to preach in this manner. He, falling on his knees, replied, that his duty to his God and to his prince had enforced him thereunto, and that he had merely discharged his duty and his conscience in what he had spoken, and that his life was in his majesty's hands.
Page 33 - What honour shall it be to us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the bones of HIM, whom, in his life...
Page 98 - Sabbath, and to make an apology for the offence he had given. After reading his text, the bishop thus began his sermon : — " Hugh Latimer, dost thou know before whom thou art this day to speak? To the high and mighty monarch, the king's most excellent majesty, who can take away thy life if thou offendest ; therefore, take heed that thou speakest not a word that may...
Page 55 - But if he had written everything in the most unexceptionable manner, I had no inclination to die for the sake of truth. Every man hath not the courage requisite to make a martyr ; and I am afraid that if I were put to the trial I should imitate St. Peter.
Page 207 - ... by his young friends for not living in the way they did (which would have completely put a...
Page 287 - Secute of all, but that alone — The noble tenants of the place My fears alarm, my quiet chase ; •Their piety without pretence, Their...
Page 199 - an opinion commonly received, that it is a foolifh thing to bring up a child at his- mother's-)- apron-firing. Her natural affeclion (however wife (lie may be) renders her too tender of her fon, and makes her cocker him too much. She is incapable of correcting his faults, and cannot bearto fee him fed hardly, and by chance, as he ought to be.