The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 39R. Griffiths, 1768 - Books |
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Page 339 - ... conscience ; visitor, in right of the king, of all hospitals and colleges of the king's foundation ; and patron of all the king's livings under the value of twenty marks per annum in the king's books. He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom.
Page 145 - Sir, I know you to be a gallant man. I have therefore put you upon this duty. I tell you in confidence, it is certain death for you all. I place you there to make the enemy spring a mine below you.
Page 334 - These high officers were assisted by certain persons learned in the laws, who were called the king's justiciars or justices, and by the greater barons of parliament, all of whom had a seat in the aula regia, and formed a kind of court of appeal, or rather of advice, in matters...
Page 47 - He used to wear the common Corsican habit, but on the arrival of the French he thought a little external elegance might be of use to make the government appear in a more respectable light.
Page 109 - ... attempt to perform it. * Long experience has taught me, that as foon as I turn up a hive and give it fome taps on the fides and bottom, the queen immediately appears, to know the caufe of this alarm : but foon retires again among her people. Being accuftomed to fee her fo often, I readily perceive her at the firft glance ; and long practice has enabled me to feize her inftantly, with a tendernefs that does not in the leaft endanger her perfon.
Page 47 - For ten minutes we walked backwards and forwards through the room hardly saying a word, while he looked at me with a steadfast, keen and penetrating eye, as if he searched my very soul.
Page 270 - ... help'd him to all the rest, six only excepted; adding to them withal twelve more which the compilers of former tables had no knowledge of. Thus furnish'd, he fell immediately...
Page 44 - There is no doubt, but by entering into society, mankind voluntarily give up a part of their natural rights, and bind themselves to the obedience of laws, calculated for the general good. But, we...
Page 45 - Europe now turns her eyes upon them, and with astonishment sees them on the eve of emancipating themselves for ever from a foreign yoke, and becoming a free and independent people.
Page 339 - He is the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics ; and has the general superintendence of all charitable uses in the kingdom. And all this over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the court of chancery...