The Political State of the British Empire: Containing a General View of the Domestic and Foreign Possessions of the Crown; the Laws, Commerce, Revenues, Offices, and Other Establishments, Civil and Military, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... completed and fettled by Dr. Hugh Shortrige , two other fellowships were added , con fined to the counties of Hertford and Surry ; befides confidera- ble augmentations to the revenues of the fociety . The laft be- nefactor was the ...
... completed and fettled by Dr. Hugh Shortrige , two other fellowships were added , con fined to the counties of Hertford and Surry ; befides confidera- ble augmentations to the revenues of the fociety . The laft be- nefactor was the ...
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... completed fome years after . It contains a very mufical peal of ten bells . The Members of this college are , a prefident , forty fellows , thirty demies , a divinity lecturer , schoolmafter , afid usher , four chaplains , an organift ...
... completed fome years after . It contains a very mufical peal of ten bells . The Members of this college are , a prefident , forty fellows , thirty demies , a divinity lecturer , schoolmafter , afid usher , four chaplains , an organift ...
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... completed at the time of Wolfey's difgrace , little more being built than the eaft , fouth , and part of the weft fides of the great quadrangle , and the kitchen . And as to the foundation itfelf , whatever it might be at that time , it ...
... completed at the time of Wolfey's difgrace , little more being built than the eaft , fouth , and part of the weft fides of the great quadrangle , and the kitchen . And as to the foundation itfelf , whatever it might be at that time , it ...
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... completing and painting the wainscoat and roof , and the addition of a great number of portraits of eminent perfons , who were educated at the college . The Church of this college , which is the cathedral of the dio- cefe , is on the ...
... completing and painting the wainscoat and roof , and the addition of a great number of portraits of eminent perfons , who were educated at the college . The Church of this college , which is the cathedral of the dio- cefe , is on the ...
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... completing the building . The lift of benefactors to this college is very numerous . Dr. William Smith , when provoft , gave books to the value of 100 % . and a falt worth 40 % .; a fine ftanding cup , with pendent moving figures ...
... completing the building . The lift of benefactors to this college is very numerous . Dr. William Smith , when provoft , gave books to the value of 100 % . and a falt worth 40 % .; a fine ftanding cup , with pendent moving figures ...
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Page 200 - ... surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever...
Page 200 - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes, that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof.
Page 168 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Page 170 - The monopoly of the colony trade, therefore, so far as it has turned towards that trade a greater proportion of the capital of Great Britain than what would...
Page 142 - If this capital is divided between two different grocers, their competition will tend to make both of them sell cheaper than if it were in the hands of one only ; and if it were divided among twenty, their competition would be just so much the greater, and the chance of their combining together in order to raise the price just so much the less.
Page 142 - He is thereby enabled to employ almost his whole stock as a capital. He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value ; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than compensates the additional price which the profit of the retailer imposes upon the goods.
Page 33 - The Hall is by far the moft magnificent room of the kind in Oxford, and perhaps one of the largeft in the kingdom. The roof is framed of timber, curioufly wrought, and fo contrived as to produce a very grand and noble effect.
Page 397 - ... his own debts, it is his misfortune and not his fault. To the misfortunes, therefore, of debtors, the law has given a compassionate remedy...
Page 168 - The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. The interest of a nation in its commercial relations to foreign nations is, like that of a merchant with regard to the different people with whom he deals, to buy as cheap and to sell as dear as possible.
Page 276 - Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements.