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Civill, and Naturall Law are not different kinds, but different parts of Law; whereof one part being written, is called Civill, the other unwritten, Naturall.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Or, if it be but one Kingdome, either the Civill, which is the Power of the Common-wealth, must be subordinate to the Ghostly; or the Ghostly must be subordinate to the Temporall and then there is no Supremacy but the Temporall.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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The group before them, a like-minded hip-hop duo from Elmhurst called Civill Artists, experienced similar troubles with the audience but soldiered on in spite of it.
Northern Star 2009
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a Common-wealth; so also have they made Artificiall Chains, called Civill Lawes, which they themselves, by mutuall covenants, have fastned at one end, to the lips of that Man, or Assembly, to whom they have given the Soveraigne Power; and at the other end to their own Ears.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Ever since the Civill War the federal government has unconstitutionally usurped more and more of the states rights and privileges with nary a peep from the American public.
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And in _Civill Businesse_, as he was _Counseller_ of _Estate_, he had the best way of _Advising_; Not engaging his
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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The end of the Assemblies of auld was, whow Chryst's Kingdome might stand in halines and friedome: now, it is whow Kirk and Relligioun may be framed to the polytic esteat of a frie Monarchie, and to advance and promot the grandour of man, and supream absolut authoritie in all causes, and over all persones, alsweill Ecclesiasticall as Civill. '
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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"Remaines": "On Rogation Days the Gospells were read in the cornfields here in England untill the Civill wars" (Hazlitt, "Faiths and Folklore", II, 478).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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An order was then passed "That all pieces of eight, Civill, Pillar and Mexico at due weight74 shall pass in payment at six shillings per piece, that half pieces of Eight, Quarter pieces and Realls do pass pro rata," and on the 12th of March proclamation to that effect was given near the Town House by beat of drum and sound of trumpet.
Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901
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Military or Civill in his Maj'tes Province of Maryland, of these 3 or
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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