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... authority to ascertain by cautious experiments how few re- strictions are necessary for the support of order and obedience , and by what liberal extensions of rights and privileges , affection and confidence in the great body of the ...
... authority to ascertain by cautious experiments how few re- strictions are necessary for the support of order and obedience , and by what liberal extensions of rights and privileges , affection and confidence in the great body of the ...
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... authority of the Judges ; but , he thought for a long season they were undermining it themselves , by usurping the functions of the Jury in cases of libel - On that principle , he proposed his celebrated Act of Parliament , which put an ...
... authority of the Judges ; but , he thought for a long season they were undermining it themselves , by usurping the functions of the Jury in cases of libel - On that principle , he proposed his celebrated Act of Parliament , which put an ...
Página xix
... authority , as well as upon popular privileges in doing so , he looked to no stan- dard of his own , but to the genuine principles and precedents of British Law , which in this deeply important instance , had been oversha dowed and ...
... authority , as well as upon popular privileges in doing so , he looked to no stan- dard of his own , but to the genuine principles and precedents of British Law , which in this deeply important instance , had been oversha dowed and ...
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... authorities of Scripture ; the simplicity and beau- ty of her Liturgy , assimilated by time as well as by its own intrinsic excellence , to the feelings of the English people ; when I advert to the general learning and morals of her ...
... authorities of Scripture ; the simplicity and beau- ty of her Liturgy , assimilated by time as well as by its own intrinsic excellence , to the feelings of the English people ; when I advert to the general learning and morals of her ...
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... authority , in my opinion establishes and confirms it - On the very same principle that , in his time , France could not be successfully invaded by the nations of Europe , she could not lately resist their in- vasion ; and I entertain ...
... authority , in my opinion establishes and confirms it - On the very same principle that , in his time , France could not be successfully invaded by the nations of Europe , she could not lately resist their in- vasion ; and I entertain ...
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