Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 8

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Charles Knight
Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1868
 

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Pagina 33 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Pagina 291 - One who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state and the apostolic hierarchy of the Church of England: opposed to a Whig\.
Pagina 33 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Pagina 339 - When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir...
Pagina 291 - The rack is used no where as in England : in other countries it is used in judicature, when there is a semiplena probatio, a half proof against a man; then to see if they can make it full, they rack him if he will not confess. But here in England they take a man and rack him, I do not know why, nor when ; not in time of judicature, but when somebody bids.
Pagina 341 - ... may be indicted, arraigned, tried and attainted in the same manner and according to the same course and order of trial in every respect, and upon the like evidence, as if such person or...
Pagina 399 - . of such Labour ; and that within the Meaning and for the Purposes aforesaid, any Agreement, Understanding, Device, Contrivance, Collusion, or Arrangement whatsoever on the Subject of Wages, whether written or oral, whether direct or indirect, to which the Employer and Artificer are Parties or are assenting, or by which they are mutually bound to each other, or whereby either of them shall have endeavoured to impose an Obligation on the other of them, shall be and be deemed a
Pagina 143 - That no descent cast, discontinuance, or warranty which may happen or be made after the said Thirty-first day of December, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three shall toll or defeat any right of entry or action for the recovery of land.
Pagina 461 - ... many. The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one, or of the few, or of the many, are perversions.
Pagina 9 - Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth : as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

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