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...The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769.The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the dev...

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...f the Ponts at Chausses. As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law, De Balzac AN OLD MAID CHAPTER I ONE OF MANY CHEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST ... ...t any one suspecting him of even an allusion to the tender passages of his romance with the Princess Goritza. Has any one ever reflected on the ser- v... ...lancholy attitude, makes them suppose a man’s whole life; they’ll invent a romance to match the hero—who is often a mere brute, but the marriage is ma... ...ary tribunal. The two sentiments, equal in force, kept her stationary by a law as true in ethics as it is in statics. This state of uncertain expectat... ...se criticisms fall before the fact that the noble catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Ale... ...f Jeanie Deans’ father; if you are willing to 115 Balzac recognize in the Roman Church the Potius mori quam foedari that you admire in republican ten... ... stitutional oath. Du Bousquier, whose secret ambition was to lay down the law to the town, wished, as a first proof of his power, to reconcile the mi... ...tues of the Abbe Francois had conquered prejudice, except that of the aged Roman Catholic, who exclaimed with Cornelle, “Alas! what virtues do you mak...

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...ee. '58 —Benjamin Franklin Lee. LL.D., a noted practitioner and teacher of law, died at his home in New York city on March 3. He was born in New York ... ...ated from Williams in 1858 and in ISfil re- ceived his LL.D. from Columbia law school. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and shortly after b... ...e year he was admitted to the bar and shortly after became a member of tho law firm of Turner, Lee it McClure. In 1883 Mr. Lee was npijointed professo... ... npijointed professor of Real Estate and Equity Juris|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law... ...or the idea of fore- shortening was in those times un- known. In Assyrian, Roman and Grecian art there are very few ex- amples of jievous diseases, al... ...their ooin- luon customs we realize a sense of modernity. In Petronius the Romans have a great humorist. N. Y. Alumni Smoker The Williams College Alum... ... place alongside of the discovery of America and the Christianizing of the Roman Em- pire and the German people. lOilliamstown Press Co. will ba opBH ... ...ts wore entirely igno- rant of the soionce of bacliteriolo- gy, though the Romans recognized the need of sanitation to sonjo ex- tent ns shown by the ... ...ittle headway except in a broken field. NINE NEW INSTRUCTORS Department of Romance Lan- guag:es Gets FourNew Men Nino new instructors have been added ...

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...The foundation of the doctrine of sola fide and sola gratia is none other than the finished sacrifice of Christ. This book is meant to challenge the Roman Catholic and indirectly even the Eastern Orthodox teachings concerning salvation. I hope that it will help Protestants defend their faith in an age when apostasy is rampant all around us....

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...all on the cross and now our salvation does not rest on our good works or our good deeds. As saint Paul says, “For if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing” (Galatians 2:21). Jesus died entirely in our place and took upon himself the punishment the punishment we deserve. I love the way Cyril of Alexandria says it in the following words, "They l...

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........................................................................................................................................... 73 A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406) .................................................................................................................................................................... 86 ON THE GREAT WALL ....................

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................................................................ 73 A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)......................................................... .................................................... 142 THE TREASURE AND THE LAW .......................................................................... .................................................... 143 The Treasure and the Law .......................................................................... ...‘What a big painted clucking fool is a pheasant!’ he said. ‘Just like some Romans.’ ‘But you’re a Roman yourself, aren’t you?’ said Una. ‘Ye-es and no... ...violets for my Mother many a time with our old nurse.’ ‘Was your nurse a—a Romaness too?’ ‘No, a Numidian. Gods be good to her! A dear, fat, brown thi... ...uth over the wheel and answer: “H’m! I’m afraid there can’t be much of the Roman Father about you!” Then the Pater would roll up his accounts, and say... ...oldsmiths, and merchants, and philosophers, and feather-sellers, and ultra-Roman Brit- ons, and ultra-British Romans, and tame tribesmen pretend- ing ... ... reckon you keep my soul for me! 143 Rudyard Kipling THE TREASURE AND THE LAW Song of the Fifth River When first by Eden T ree The Four Great Rivers ... ...alone, As it was ordered to be. 145 Rudyard Kipling The T reasure and the Law NOW IT WAS the third week in November, and the woods rang with the nois...

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...ome shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to adopt such a conclusion; for children might be baptized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as li...

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... There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to adopt... ... it ought in candor to be considered that possession is nine points of the law. He who would not have introduced, was often obliged to retain. Finally... ...one whom cus- tom regarded as little above a mountebank, and the illiberal law as a vagabond. The same degrading appreciation attached both to the act... ...her husband’s family, beyond the prom- ises of fairy land or the dreams of romance; for it is certain that to her chiefly this family was also indebte... ...36, was published a very remarkable document, which gives the assurance of law to the time and fact of this event, yet still, unless collated with ano... ...er, it is believed that Shakspeare wrote nothing more after this exquisite romantic drama. With respect to the remainder of his personal history, Dr. ... ... T rue; but prodigious as it is, there is really nothing between them. The Roman stage, at least the tragic stage, as is well known, was put out, as b... ...ns emanat- ing from the gross mythology of the ancients, no Grecian, 24 no Roman, could have conceived a ghost. That shadowy conception, the protestin... ...on the same commercial exertions to which he had been obliged himself. The Roman Catholics, indeed, were just then situated as our modern Quakers are....

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...ty of enemies and few friends, he begins the grim process of preserving himself at all costs. A raw portrait of the dark side of high-stakes civil-law practice, Book of Business is a frightening look at a shadowy world that many imagine but only true insiders ever see. Praise for Book of Business "Compulsively readable." Ephraim Margolin, Esq., Past President of ...

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...hat reflected the title most often used by the book’s audience. The 13th edition incorporated the new United States copyright regulations that became law in 1978, and the production and printing sections of the Manual were revised to discuss the phototypesetting technology that had begun to displace lead type as well as the old Linotype and Monotype metal-casting machines—...

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...n the nature of the case, cannot be endowed with the fixity of rock-ribbed law. They are meant for the average case, and must be applied with a cer... ...ful or popular appel- lation used as if a real geographical name: (I) Holy Roman Empire, German Empire (-Dmtschw Reich), French Republic (=Rt?pdliq... ... (but: scribe); Epicurean, Stoic, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Sym- bolic school of painters. But do not capita... ...nt), Declaration of Independence, Act of Emancipa- tion, Magna Charta, Corn Law, Reform Bill (English). 17. Creeds and confessions of faith: Apostl... ... church (=organized Christianity), the Eastern (Greek Orthodox) church, the Roman Catholic church, the estab- lished church (but: the Establishment)... ...(Second) Kings, Book of Job, Psalms (Psalter), Song of Songs, the [Mosaic] Law and the [writings of the] Prophets, Minor Prophets, Wisdom literatur... ...tic Gospels, Fourth Gospel, Acts of the Apostles (the Acts), Epistle to the Romans, Pastoral Epistles, Apocalypse (Revelation), Sermon on the Mount,... ....) 33. As a rule, nouns followed by a numeral-particu- larly a capitalized Roman numeral-indicating their order in a sequence: Malzzlal of Style:... ...tention is directed : 26 The University of Chicago Press the term "lynch law;" the phrase " liberty of conscience;" the concepts "good" and " bad...

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...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece, France Budget: revenues $2.24 billion, ex... ...trative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law, with socialist principles; new constitution adopted by referendum No... ...tock; 61% Spanish, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman Catholic Language: Catalan (official); many also speak some French ... ...e divisions: 18 provinces Legal system: formerly based on Portu- guese civil law system and customary law; being modified along socialist model Nation... ...ependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on English common law; constitution came into effect on 1 April 1982 Branches: 11-member Ho... ...hes, 2 dependencies (Barbuda, Redonda) Legal system: based on English common law; British Caribbean Court of Appeal has exclusive original jurisdictio...

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...ed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat­ ues were perched in predesigned recesses around the circu... ... Matloch gestured to his to his left, "This is Roger Cox, head of our Corporate Law team, and Alex­ ander Frank, our Chief Financial Officer. Roger ... ... mining sites, that is, only after the local residents and the EPA threatened a law suit ... Need I go on, Mr. Matloch?" Matloch was sitting comfor... ...d she wanted to know why. Her and Pierce's relationship had been friendly, even roman­ tic, if you could call sex in the afternoon in his connubial o... ...even roman­ tic, if you could call sex in the afternoon in his connubial office romantic. She had confessed to herself an animal magnetism for Pierc... ...hey won't talk." "Maybe not, but we've got to try," Greene replied. "It's the law," Shipley said, "They've got to report it." "They might not even... ...l­ ing his way to a Master's degree in Business from Columbia Uni­ versity and a Law degree from Harvard. He did it, not because he wasn't capable of... ...luding carvings from the Ming Dynasty to the Sumerian culture of Ham arabi, the Law Giver. Brent wished he could spend time studying the collection,...

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...The Epistle to Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. It is principally concerned with the controversy surrounding Gentile Christians and the Mosaic Law within Early Christianity. Along with the Epistle to the Romans, it is the most...

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...The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. It is principally concerned with the controversy surrounding Gentile Christians and the Mosaic Law within Early Christianity. Along with the Epistle to the Romans, it is the most...

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...ting the imminent Second Coming. The epistle has caused controversy: Protestant reformer Martin Luther argued that it was not the work of an apostle. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Mormonism claim it contradicts Luther's doctrine of justification through faith alone (Sola fide) derived from his translation of Romans 3:28. The Christian debate over Justification i...

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...The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. It also covers, briefly, the geography and ethnography of ancient Britain. As in the German...

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...ndividual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America....

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...ent of any power to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more va... ...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...l Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlightened Roman Catho- lic, supposing only that he were not a Papist, would have give... ...the collision neared,—all these ele- ments of the scene blended, under the law of association, with the previous and permanent features of distinction... ...t— if there be anything amiss—let the Dream be responsible. The Dream is a law to itself; and as well quarrel with a rain- bow for showing, or for not... ...ative and Miscellaneous Essays.” 13 Thomas de Quincey everywhere pass for romances, if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to fact... ...appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vices of Londo... ... Pickford, the great carrier, always horsed his wagons with eight. And the law knew of no distinction between wagon and post-chaise, coach-horse or ca...

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...proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of “liberty regulated by law,” with such results in the development of strength, in population, weal... ...e sanction of public opinion. If M. De T ocqueville could now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, ... ... equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwritten law of the natural aversion of the races. He would find it in public opinio... ...ces. He would find it in public opinion, which is the vital force in every law in a free government. This is a subject that our Constitution failed to... ...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ...e world by conceiving, following up, and executing vast designs – from the Romans to the English – have been governed by aristocratic institu- tions. ... ...ars. Montesquieu somewhere alludes to the excessive despondency of certain Roman citizens who, after the excitement of po- litical life, were all at o...

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...st, to ascertain what sounds there were in the language; and secondly, to express these sounds by the fewest characters. The characters used are the Roman; and the sound given to the vowels are those of the languages of Southern continental Europe rather than those of the English. The materials for the following grammar have been taken almost entirely from native manuscr...

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...5—18 -- Of Syllables -- 19—23 -- Of Words -- 24—26 -- Formation of Words -- 27—36 -- Peculiarities in the Use of Words -- 37—40 -- Of Accents—General Law -- 41—45 -- Letters Dropped -- 46 -- Letters Inserted -- 48 -- Etymology Definition -- 52 -- Of the O Emphatic -- 53 -- Its Place in the Sentence—Rules -- 54 -- Of the Articles Generally -- 55—58 -- Definite articles ka a...

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... and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which left him deformed and of small stature never growing past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope f...

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...n in Evelyn’s Book on Coins Epigram (“Did Milton’s prose...”) Epigram (“Should Dennis print...”) Mr. J. M. Smythe Epigram on Mr. Moore’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver Epigram (“A gold watch found...”) Epitaph on James Moore-Smythe A Question by Anonymous Epigram (“Great George...”) Epigram (“Behold! ambitious...”) Epitaph on Charles, Earl of Dorset Epitaph on Si...

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...pt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, qu...

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...ntered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounte... ... his features, carved after a mean design. As you enter a gaming-house the law despoils you of your hat at the outset. Is it by way of a parable, a di... ...an- sion for his son to inherit prematurely, only to be ejected from it by law proceedings at his own brother’s instance. After all, is there a less p... ...g woman threw her- self into the Seine from the Pont des Arts.” Dramas and romances pale before this concise Parisian phrase; so must even that old fr... ...e him the scrolls of Titus Livius. The young man beheld Senatus Populusque Romanus; consuls, lictors, togas with purple fringes; the fighting in the F... ...phyry carved round about with pictures of the most gro- tesquely wanton of Roman divinities, the pride of some Corinna, scarcely drew a smile from him... ...fe, I dramatize and expand them; I divert myself with them as if they were romances which I could read by the power of vision within me. As I have nev... ...the Con- vention expended in order to assess the taxes justly, to make one law for everybody, and one nation of France, and to establish the rule of e... ... all the vague sentiment of a German ballad; it was a retreat fit for some romance of 1827, perfumed by the exotic flowers set in their stands. Anothe...

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...nterests clashed; and sufficiently wily and politic to conceal the sacred ties that united them, sufficiently strong to maintain themselves above the law, bold enough to undertake all things, and fortunate enough to succeed, nearly always, in their undertakings; having run the greatest dangers, but keeping silence if defeated; inaccessible to fear; trembling neither before...

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...s that united them, suffi- ciently strong to maintain themselves above the law, bold enough to undertake all things, and fortunate enough to succeed, ... ...sed; they have peaceably put their necks once more under the yoke of civil law, just as Morgan, that Achilles among pirates, transformed himself from ... ...d by this programme. Dramas steeped in blood, comedies filled with terror, romantic tales through which rolled heads mysteriously decapitated, have be... ...ng exile of their legitimate king, always a king for them. Thus we see the romantic prestige attaching to the name of Ferragus and to that of the Devo... ...ile to the world, admitting none of the world’s ideas, not recognizing any law, not submitting to any conscience but that of necessity, obedient to a ... ...d! at that hour! The love that this young man felt for that woman may seem romantic, and all the more so because he was an officer in the Royal Guard.... ...way business came to him, that some hidden influence, due to his mother-in-law, or to Providence, was secretly protecting him. At the end of the third... ...He went to bed, building castles in the air, excusing Madame Jules by some romantic fiction in which he did not believe. He resolved to 27 Balzac dev... ...ar fancy of a Parisian in wishing to burn his wife after the manner of the Romans. The clubs of Paris took up the subject, and talked for a while of t...