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The hardships occasioned by the oaths to the present government consider'd and argu'd. By a well-wisher to his country.
Well-wisher to his country.Date: [1716]- Books
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A Short argument on the administration of oaths, endeavouring to shew that it is an essential and unalienable prerogative of the sovereignty.
Date: 1797- Books
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An essay on truths of importance to the happiness of mankind. Wherein the doctrine of oaths, as relative to Religious and Civil Government, is impartially considered. The Whole submitted to Public Examination. By the late Rev. Mr. Herport, A celebrated Divine of the Canton of Berne. Translated from the German.
Herport, Rev Mr. (Buat).Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The history of publick and solemn state oaths. Containing all those that have been taken by the Kings of England, at their Coronation, or Administer'd to the Subjects upon several Occasions, from the Conquest to this present Time.
Date: [1716]- Books
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Considerations upon the use and abuse of oaths judicially taken. Particularly in respect to perjury. By the Rev. Robert Pool Finch, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of St. John the Evangelist in that City.
Finch, Robert Pool, 1724-1803.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Considerations upon the use and abuse of oaths judicially taken; particularly in respect to perjury. By the Rev. Robert Pool Finch, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of St. John the Evangelist in that City.
Finch, Robert Pool, 1724-1803.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The benefit of oaths to civil society consider'd, in An assize sermon, Preach'd before The Hon. Martin Wright, Esq. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench, The Hon. Sir Thomas Abney, Knt. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and The University of Oxford. July 5, 1744. By Richard Green, D. D. Fellow of St. John Baptist's College, Oxford.
Green, Richard, 1707 or 1708-1786.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A review of a pamphlet, intitled, A serious enquiry into the burgess oaths of Edinburgh, Perth, and Glasgow. Wherein the most material arguments against the burgess oath are impartially weighed and examined.
Fisher, James, 1697-1775.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The nature and obligation of oaths; opened and applied to the case of those who take them. By Samuel Clifford.
Clifford, Samuel, minister of the gospel.Date: M.DCC.XXIII. [1723]- Pictures
Nathaniel Newnham taking the oaths of office as Lord Mayor of London in 1782. Stipple engraving by B. Smith, 1801, after W. Miller.
Miller, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810.Date: June 4, 1801Reference: 2848107i- Books
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The book of oaths, and the several forms thereof, both ancient and modern, faithfully collected out of sundry authentick books of records. To which is added, an appendix Compleating the Whole to this present Year. Very useful for all Persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any Office of Magistracy or Publick Imployment.
Date: 1715- Books
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A letter to the Rev. Mr. Hall, author of An impartial survey of the controversy about the religious clause of some burgess-oaths.
Corydon, active 1772.Date: 1772- Books
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Satisfaction tendred to all that pretend conscience for nonsubmission to our present governours, and refusing of the new oaths of fealty and allegiance : in a letter to a friend / by R.B. ... Rector of Icklingham All-Saints, Suffolk.
Booker, RichardDate: 1689- Books
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The obligation of the oaths to the government; and the Pretences for breaking them Consider'd. A Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes at Kingston in Surrey, On Tuesday, July the 31st, 1716. Before The Right Honourable The Lord Chief Justice Parker, and Mr. Justice Powis. By Hugh Boulter, D. D. Rector of St. Olave's Southwark, Arch-Deacon of Surrey, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Publish'd at the Request of the High Sheriff and the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury.
Boulter, Hugh, 1672-1742.Date: 1716- Books
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A Compleat history of publick and solemn state oaths. Containing the forms of all such as have been taken, either by the Kings of England at their coronation, or administered to the subjects upon every occasion, from the conquest to the last session of Parliament; where in an act passed, obliging both men and women to swear allegiance to the government. With some considerations on the present case of oaths.
Date: 1724- Books
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The lawfulness of taking oaths: Together, with an exposition, of Their nature and obligation. Set forth in a sermon, Preach'd at the assizes begun at Wells in the County of Somerset, August 19. 1718. By Fr. Squire, M. A. Rector of Exford, and Vicar of Cutcombe and Luxborow. Publish'd at the Request of the Honourable High Sheriff, and Grand Jury.
Squire, Francis, 1682-1750.Date: [1718?]- Books
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An Act for enlarging the time for the ministers, advocates, and other members of the College of Justice in Scotland, to take oaths therein mentioned.
Great Britain.Date: 1712]- Books
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Reflections on the Quakers printed case, intituled, The case of the people commonly called Quakers, relating to oaths, humbly offered to the consideration of the House of peers, &c. by way of inference from their doctrine recited in Vox populi, &c.
Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?.Date: 1702?]- Books
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A memorial for the perusal of the grand preservative of peace and allegiance both in His Majesty's absence from, and presence with us; In a supplement to conscience, very friendly, very healing: being a Sound, casuistical, and most compassionate admonition, I. In the religion of oaths in general. II. The solemn contract of loyalty by state-oaths. III. The true state and power of eight, that is, all the suggested evasions in point of conscience. With two material appendices; [I]. A new, brief, and compleat solution of the scruples, about the revolution: and an accurate satisfaction and rejection of te pretender. [II.] The oaths themselves: and the legal inconveniencies from not taking them. By the impartial hand of a country divine, who has lately taken the oaths.
Country divine.Date: 1716- Books
The physician's creed : an anthology of medical prayers, oaths, and codes of ethics written and recited by medical practitioners through the ages / by M.B. Etziony.
Etziony, M. B., 1904-Date: [1973]- Books
The Hippocratic oath / text, translation and interpretation by Ludwig Edelstein.
Edelstein, Ludwig, 1902-1965.Date: 1943- Books
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A dissuasive from perjury; with directions against it, and an answer to the evasions which some use to elude the force and obligation of oaths. By Samuel Clifford.
Clifford, Samuel, minister of the gospel.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The nature and obligation of oaths explained: or, a preservative against perjury, Popery, treason, and rebellion. Being, a course of lectures Read in the Divinity-School, at Oxford, in the Year 1646, by Dr. Robert Sanderson, then Regius-Professor of Divinity in that University, and afterwards Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Wherein, Various Difficult and Important cases of conscience, not only with Regard to Religion, but Civil Government, are Fairly Stated, Learnedly Discussed, and Judiciously Resolved. Translated into English from the Original Latin, and illustrated with Notes, from Grotius, Puffendorf, Barbeyrac, Le Placette, Burlamaqui, and other Learned Writers. By The Revd. Thomas Dawson, L. L. D. Translator of The Orations of Eschines and Demosthenes, concerning The Crown.
Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The religion of an oath. Plain directions how the duty of swearing, may be safely managed, when it is justly demanded. And strong persuasives to avoid the perils of perjury. Concluding with a most solemn explanation of an oath, which the laws of Denmark have provided for the consideration of them, whom an oath is propos'd unto. Published at the desire of some, who apprehend oaths to be too frequently and faultily trifled with.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1719- Books
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An essay on the nature of oaths, and judicial evidence. Being an attempt to prove, from the Dictates of the Law of Nature, the Principles of Revealed Religion, and the Practice of all Civiliz'd Nations, that the testimony of a villain, or that of a Person under partial Influence, ought to have no effect on the conscience of a juryman. By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Gentleman of the Inner Temple.Date: [1750?]