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A Oracion framed againste a certaine Thefe, Extorcio - ner, Murderer, or Traitor, is for the matter conteined in it, metelie and aptlie compiled, against all soche as are giltie of theft, murder, treason, or spotted with any other wickednes.
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Thefe are the laws, that fo vigoroufly withftood the repeated attacks of the civil law; which eftablifhed in the twelfth century a new Roman empire over moft of the ftates on the continent: ftates that have loft, and perhaps upon that account, their political liberties; which the free conftitution of England, perhaps upon the fame account has been rather improved than debafed.
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Thefe, in fhort, are the laws which gave rife and original to that collection of maxims and cuftoms, which is now known by the name of the common law.
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Thefe however are the laws which our hiftories fo often mention under the name of the laws of Edward the confeffor; which our anceftors ftruggled fo hardly to maintain, under the firft princes of the Norman line; and which fubfequent princes fo frequently promifed to keep and to reftore, as the moft popular act they could do, when preffed by foreign emergencies or domeftic difcontents.
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Thefe people, chiefly, live wild among the mountains, and are not tributary.
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Thefe people fet no value on nails, or any fort of iron tools; nor indeed on any thing they had.
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Thefe be the twoo poynfts, wherin her Grace requireth my anfwere: And for to obey her demand, which to me is a Comniandemente, I do fend yow, nott onely to prefent my lettres, but alfo my mouthe, and wyth thife prefent In - flruftions, for more fatysfaftion of her Grace in all poynSs.
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Thefe pods are conneded by the beams which fuftain the roof, and the whole is ftrongly joined together with pegs, fo that when earthquakes happen they play without disjoining: but as the apartments are not cieled, the light of the fkeleton of the building has a very difagree - able eflFed.
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Thefe arc the fame bonds, tlie balanro of wiiich is claimed by the Honorable Mrs. Johniton, in her account, N° 1. —
Papers presented to the House of Commons, relating to East India Affairs 1812
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Thefe reafons, though entitled to due confideration, do not appear to be fufHcientlv 'ftrong to jullify the propofed reftridion, or the making a ciiftincUon, in that refpect', between fhips trading to the Eaft-Indies and to other countries.
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