A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 4

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A. Fullarton, 1853

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Page 200 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Page 386 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Page 41 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Page 332 - Primitive Christianity, or the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel.
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Page 44 - In 1661 he was made a knight of the bath, at the coronation of Charles II., and in 1672 was appointed a judge in the court of common pleas.
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