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A view of human nature: or, select histories; giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their Perfections or Defects, either of Body or Mind; or who have been, in any Respect, remarkable Instances of Divine Providence. The Whole collected from the best Authors in various Languages, with the Addition of several curious Particulars never before publish'd; and digested under the following Heads, amongst many others, viz. Monstrous and preternatural Births. Giants and Dwarfs. Vast Strength of some Persons. Extraordinary Longevity. Persons who have return'd to Life after they have been supposed to be dead. Strange Discoveries of Murder. The Strength of Imagination. Great Memory. Loving Husbands and Wives. $$gent Parents, and dutiful children. Gratitude and Friendship. Singular Chastity. Uncommon Patience and Fortitude. Pride and Ambition. Great Eaters and Drinkers. Instance of Temperance and long Abstinence. Great Sleepers, and Walkers in their Sleep. Dreams, Presages, and Predictions. Magicians, Wizards, and Witches. Apparitions. Persons wonderfully preserv'd from Death. Horrid Imprecations, and Appeals to God, &c. &c. &c. With Miscellaneous Notes.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An Act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons.
Great Britain.Date: 1729]- Books
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The english baronetage: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing: their descents, marriages, and issues; Memorable Actions, both in War, and Peace; Religious and Charitable Donations; Deaths, Places of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions; collected From Authentick Manuscripts, Records, Old Wills, our best Historians, and other Authorities. Illustrated with their coats of arms, Curiously Engraven, on copper-plates: with An Explanatory Index of the Terms in Heraldry, referring to the Arms. Also Correct Lists; I. Of the Present Baronets, in the Order of Precedence. II. Of those who are now Peers of Great-Britain, or Ireland. III. Of those Foreigners, who have had this Dignity conferr'd on them. IV. Of those, whose Titles are now Extinct. Likewise exact tables of precedence; Particularly with Respect to the Wives, Sons, and Daughters, of Baronets, and Knights. To whic are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English Families, now Resident in England: and a list of such persons Names who were deemed Fit and Qualified, at the Restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak, with the Value of their Estates, as then given in. Vol. I.
Wotton, Thomas, -1766.Date: 1741- Books
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Some observations on a bill entituled, An Act for Indemnifying such Persons as shall upon Examination make Discoveries touching the Disposition of Publick Money, or concerning the Disposition of Offices, or any Payments or Agreements in Respect thereof; or concerning other Matters relating to the conduct of Robert Earl of Orford.
Date: [1742]- Books
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Some observations on a bill entituled, An Act for Indemnifying such Persons as shall upon Examination make Discoveries touching the Disposition of Publick Money, or concerning the Disposition of Offices, or any Payments or Agreements in Respect thereof; or concerning other Matters relating to the conduct of Robert Earl of Orford.
Date: [1742]- Books
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The Lords protest May 25, 1742, on the bill intitled, An act for indemnifying such persons as shall upon examination, make discoveries touching the disposition of publick money, or concerning the disposition of offices, or any payments or agreements in respect thereof, or concerning other matters relating to the conduct of Robert Earl of Oxford.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: [1742]- Books
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Thoughts on executive justice, with respect to our criminal laws, particularly on the circuits. Dedicated to the Judges of Assize; And recommended to the Perusal of All Magistrates; and to all Persons who are liable to serve on Crown Juries. By a sincere well-wisher to the public.
Madan, Martin, 1726-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Thoughts on executive justice, with respect to our criminal laws, particularly on the circuits. Dedicated to the Judges of Assize; And recommended to the Perusal of All Magistrates; and to all Persons who are liable to serve on Crown Juries. With an appendix, occasioned by a charge given to the Grand Jury for the County of Surrey. By a sincere well-wisher to the public.
Madan, Martin, 1726-1790.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Heads of a bill for relief of insolvent debtors and other persons imprisoned for debt, with an abstract of the laws and customs of other nations, with respect to unfortunate debtors and bankrupts. Most humbly address'd and submitted to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament.
Ireland. Parliament.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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An Act for relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and to oblige debtors, who shall continue in execution in prison beyond a certain time, and for sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the Act, to make discovery of, and deliver upon oath, their estates for their creditors benefit.
Great Britain.Date: 1759- Books
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Anno vicesimo nono Georgii II. Regis. An act for reviving and continuing an act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and for continuing an act made in the last session of Parliament, to continue several laws relating to the distemper now raging among the horned cattle in this kingdom.
Great Britain.Date: 1756]- Books
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A copy of the clauses in an Act of Parliament, made in the thirty second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, entituled, an act for relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons, and so forth; ...
Great Britain.Date: 1760?]- Books
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Reasons for further explanations and amendments of a late act of Parliament, entitled, an act for relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the legislature, and more particularly of the honourable committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inspect the state of the jayls in this kingdom.
Date: 1731- Books
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A Bill to repeal the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, and the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1938, and to make fresh provision with respect to the treatment and care of mentally disordered persons and with respect to their property and affairs, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid / presented by Derek Walker-Smith, supported by The Prime Minister, Mr Secretary Butler, Mr Attorney General, Mr Renton and Richard Thompson.
Great Britain.Date: [1958?]- Books
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Anno Vicesimo Nono Georgii II. Regis. An act to obviate a doubt arisen on an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for relief of insolvent debtors; and for relief of sheriffs and keepers of prisons, in respect to escapes of such persons as were prevented by the said doubt from being discharged under the said act.
Great Britain.Date: 1756]- Books
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The laws of taxation. Being, a concise treatise of all the acts of Parliament now in force, or that were ever made and pass'd, relating to the taxes of England, and the other Branches of the Royal Revenue. Wherein are set forth, the power and authority of the Senate in levying of taxes; the duties and charges upon the subject impos'd in all reigns; particularly on Candles, Soap, Leather, Malt, Plate, Stamp Duties, Land Tax, and Lottery Acts, Customs, Excise, Wine Licence, &c. The penalties for defaults in payment, and every thing necessary to be known by the Persons taxed, Commissioners of Taxes, Assessors, &c. To which is prefix'd, a preface, shewing how far the subject may be eas'd with respect to these taxes in the present times.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: [1721]- Books
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The Right of Protestant dissenters to a compleat toleration, asserted; Or An essay, containing an historical review of their situation under the laws imposing the Sacramental test on persons admitted to offices; and shewng, the imposition of that test to be unjust with respect to the Protestant dissenters of England and the natives of North Britain, as well as inexpedient; with an answer to the objection urged from the act of union with Scotland; and proofs that the present is the proper time for applying to Parliament for the necessary redress. To which is added a postscript, in reply to the arguments of Bishop Sherlock on the subject of the Test Laws, lately republished.
Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The right of protestant dissenters to a compleat toleration, asserted; or an essay, containing an historical Review of their Situation under the Laws imposing the Sacramental Test on Persons admitted to Offices; and shewing the Imposition of that Test to be unjust with Respect to the Protestant Dissenters of England and the Natives of North Britain, as well as inexpedient; with an Answer to the Objection urged from the Act of Union with Scotland; and Proofs that the present is the proper Time for applying to Parliament for the necessary Redress. To which is added a postscript, in reply to the arguments of Bishop Sherlock on the subject of the Test laws, lately republished.
Heywood, Samuel, 1753-1828.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Observations on the inconveniencies that might have happened to the publick, if a bill lately depending, had pass'd into a law, intituled, An act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons, &c. which were offer'd in behalf of the petitioners, to the Right Honourable the House of Lords, against the passing of said bill.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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Truth in opposition to ignorant and malicious falshood: or a discourse written to vindicate the honour, and to assert the right of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, Fellow of the Royal Society, and R. College of Physicians London; with respect to his invention for making the salt of the purging waters , called in his Latin Edition thereof, Sal Catharticum Amarum. And to detect the injuries done to the publick, as well as to Himself, by obstructing the Health, and endangering the Lives of the King's Subjects; as also by lessening the Foreign Trade, and otherwise, with the many counterfeit slats made and sold by Interloping Chymists. Grounded chiefly upon the Testimonies Of many Eminent Members of the Royal Society, and the Royal College of Physicians London, the Royal Colleges of Physicians in Edinburgh and Dublin, the Royal Academy in Paris, and the Imperial Academy in Breslaw, with other Eminent and Learned Persons in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Prussia, Poland, and Germany. Collected and composed Out of Books, Letters, and other Papers. By Josiah Peter gent.
Peter, Josiah.Date: 1701- Books
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Wilson's Dublin directory, for the year 1766. Containing, An Alphabetical list of the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode, of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Dublin. To which are added, The Baronets of Ireland, with the Dates of their Creation, from the first Institution of that Order and Dignity to the present Time. Chief Magistrates of the City of Dublin, from the second Year of King Edward II. Aldermen, with their Years of Election, and the Persons they succeeded. Officers of the Militia. Dean and Chapter of Christ-Church. Dean & Chapter of St. Patrick. Ministers, Curates and Church-Wardens of the several Parishes. Physicians. Surgeons. Barristers at Law, with the Dates of their Admission. Attornies of the Courts of King's-Bench, Common-Pleas, and Exchequer. Solicitors of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer. Advocates and Proctors in the Civil & Ecclesiastical Courts. Public Notaries. New Common-Council, for three Years, from December 24, 1765. Masters, Wardens and Clerks, of the twenty-five Guilds. To these are prefixed, An Alphabetical List of all the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, &c. in the City and Suburbs of Dublin; with their Situations in respect to each other; and References for finding them in the Map of modern Dublin, which is so contrived, that the Situation of any Place may be instantly found. Being, A proper Supplement to Watson's Almanack.
Wilson, Peter, -approximately 1771.Date: [1766]- Books
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A vindication of the Athanasian creed, in respect to the explicit explanation of the three distinct persons in the Godhead; And of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. By Francis Lloyd, A.M. rector of Trotterscliffe, Kent. These Catholick declarations (speaking of the three creeds) of our belief, delivered by them, who were so much nearer than we are unto the first publication thereof, and continuing needful for all men to know; these confessions, as testimonies of our continuance in the same faith to this present day, we rather use than any Gloss or paraphrase devised by ourselves; which, though it were to the same effect, notwithstanding could not be of the like authority and credit. Hooker's ecclesiastical polity.
Lloyd, Francis.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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An abstract of twelve Acts of Parliament. Containing I. An Act for the better quallification of justices. II. An Act for preventing frivolous and vexatious Arrests. III. An Act for improving Tillage of Land. IV. An Act for making Process in Courts of Equity effectual against Persons who abscond and cannot be served therewith, or refuse to appear. V. An Act for the Benefit of Landlords and Tenants. VI. The Law of Tithes. Vii. An Act for the Relief of Parishes, and other Plaees, from such Charges as may arise from Bastard Children born within the same. Viii. An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. IX. An Act to prevent the Exportation of Irish Stuffs, &c. X. An Act for repealing an Act for laying a Duty upon all Compound Waters, &c. XI. An Act for the better regulating Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, &c. XII. An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land-tax for the service of the year 1733.
Great Britain.Date: 1733- Books
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A new general collection of voyages and travels: consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language: Comprehending every Thing remarkable in its Kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, With respect to the Several Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces; their Situation, Extent, Bounds and Division, Climate, Soil and Produce; their Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Cities, principal Towns, Harbours, Buildings, &c. and the gradual Alterations that from Time to Time have happened in each: also the Manners and Customs of the Several Inhabitants; their Religion and Government, Arts and Sciences, Trades and Manufactures: So as to form A Compleat system of Modern Geography and History, exhibiting the Present State of all Nations; Illustrated not only with charts of the several Divisions of the Ocean, and maps of each Country, entirely new Composed, as well as new Engraved, by the best Hands, from the latest Surveys, Discoveries, and Astronomical Observations: But likewise with Variety of Plans, and Prospects of Coasts, Harbours, and Cities; besides cuts representing Antiquities, Animals, Vegetables, the Persons and Habits of the People, and other Curiosities: Selected from the most Authentic Travellers, Foreign as well as English. Published by His Majesty's Authority. ...
Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]-47 [1743-47]- Books
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Observations, &c. Upon the act for taxing income; In which the principles and provisions of the act are fully considered, with a view to facilitate its execution, both with respect to persons chargable, and the officers chosen to carry it into effect. With the act at large. By the King's printer. Together with the substance of clauses of the assessed tax act that have a reference to this, and copious index, referring both to the act and observations.
Date: 1799