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:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.
" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."
:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.
:" Ansgar then undertook the mission committed to him by the emperor, who desired that he should go to the Swedes and discover whether this people was prepared to accept the faith as their messengers had declared.
:" It may suffice for me to say that while they were in the midst of their journey they fell into the hands of pirates.
:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.
:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.
:" In pity of their errors, our archbishop ordained as their diocesan capital Birka, which is in the middle of Sweden ( Sueoniae ) facing Jumne ( Iumnem ), the capital of the Slavs, and equally distant from all the coasts of the surrounding sea.
The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.
:" And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
" How they create their music is described on their website :" each album is written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days, and tells a unique story.
:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.
:" When you deprogram people, you force them to think ... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds.
Patrick was charged for kidnapping, but he was acquitted with the reasoning: :" here parents are, as here, of the reasonable and intelligent belief that they were not physically capable of recapturing their daughter from existing, imminent danger, then the defense of necessity transfers or transposes to the constituted agent, the person who acts upon their belief under such conditions.
:" A hill there is ," answered she, " not far away from here, where elves have their haunt.
Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.

:" and present
:" The common law divided participants in a felony into four basic categories: ( 1 ) first-degree principals, those who actually committed the crime in question ; ( 2 ) second-degree principals, aiders and abettors present at the scene of the crime ; ( 3 ) accessories before the fact, aiders and abettors who helped the principal before the basic criminal event took place ; and ( 4 ) accessories after the fact, persons who helped the principal after the basic criminal event took place.
When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.
:" In the celebration of Eucharist we believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be present.
:" The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of all members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by three-fourths of the members of the Legislative Yuan present at a meeting requiring a quorum of three-fourths of all the members, and approved by three-fourths of the delegates to the National Assembly present at a meeting requiring a quorum of two-thirds of all the delegates.
:" The territory of the Republic of China, defined by its existing national boundaries, shall not be altered unless initiated upon the proposal of one-fourth of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, passed by at least three-fourths of the members present at a meeting attended by at least three-fourths of the total members of the Legislative Yuan, and sanctioned by electors in the free area of the Republic of China at a referendum held upon expiration of a six-month period of public announcement of the proposal, wherein the number of valid votes in favor exceeds one-half of the total number of electors.
:" That would be virtuous of me, my friend, and good reputation would be mine among men, for present time alike and hereafter, if first I led you into my shelter, there entertained you as guest, then murdered you and ravished the dear life from you.
:" The village received its name from the following circumstance: The first settlement was made on the present site, which is on the south bank of the creek, and about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of the village of Cahokia.
:" In a special compartment of the shrine now there showed-along with remains of ancient old rotten or moulded bandages, most likely byssus, besides pieces of aromatic resins and similar substances-numerous bones of three persons, which under the guidance of several present experts could be assembled into nearly complete bodies: the one in his early youth, the second in his early manhood, the third was rather aged.
:" The provisions of the act are explicit, and present a well coordinated plan for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees by bringing the disputes to arbitration and accommodation, and thereby prevent strikes and the public disorder and derangement of business that may be consequent upon them.
:" In addition, the present century has seen the conscious creation of a ‘ mainstream ’ variety of Scots — a standard literary variety, [...] referred to as ‘ synthetic Scots ’, now generally goes under the name Lallans (=‘ Lowlands ’).
:" could show the evolution of books from papyrus scrolls through parchment tomes and the first Gutenberg volumes on up to the present day.
:" Because neither the factual underpinnings of Roe's central holding nor our understanding of it has changed ( and because no other indication of weakened precedent has been shown ), the Court could not pretend to be reexamining the prior law with any justification beyond a present doctrinal disposition to come out differently from the Court of 1973 .”
:" But while my present body can thus have its partial counterpart in some possible world, my present consciousness cannot.
:" The various theories at present entertained regarding the phenomena of mesmerism may be arranged thus :— First, those who believe them to be owing entirely to a system of collusion and delusion ; and a great majority of society may be ranked under this head.
:" If we conceive a being whose faculties are so sharpened that he can follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are still essentially finite as our own, would be able to do what is at present impossible for us ," ( J. C. Maxwell, )
:" Its exclusive purpose is to bring the elements pressing for America's entry into the war to their senses by conclusively demonstrating to them if they enter the present struggle they will automatically have to deal with the three great powers as adversaries.
:" West-Combe-park, the site of this manor, was granted by Sir Gregory Page on a long lease to Captain Galfridus Walpole, ( younger brother of Sir Robert, and uncle of the present Earl of Orford ) who built the present house.
:" The purpose of this weekly economic publication is to analyze and interpret financial, commercial and industrial developments ; to collect economic news ; and to present views and opinions with the intent to improve existing conditions.
:" The words of our Savior were always present, for they were true: those who were healed, those who rose from the dead, those who were not only seen in the act of being healed or raised, but were also always present, not merely when the Savior was living on earth, but also for a considerable time after his departure, so that some of them survived even to our own times.
:" Newlands, in this parish, the seat of Sir Henry Thomas Gott, was purchased by its present possessor about the year 1770, of Mr. Croke of Beaconsfield: it had been formerly in the family of Saunders, and was sold by Sir John Saunders to Mr. Hopkins, of whom it was purchased by Mr. Croke.
:" We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of the past and the cause of the future.

:" and arrangement
:" I should like you to consider that these functions ( including passion, memory, and imagination ) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine ’ s organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels.
:" The marriage arrangement was relatively simple.
:" We changed the arrangement quite a lot from Robert Johnson's.
:" Sometimes I wonder ... myself ( about how we developed that arrangement ).
:" was a pyramid-shaped, multi-tiered organizational structure, which had at the top echelon of the pyramid ( it just so happened ) none other than the Fab Five themselves, who claimed ( conveniently ) to be in " submission " to each other, which arrangement, they purported, acted as a fail-safe " checks and balance " system to totally preclude them from falling prey to the corruptive properties of absolute power to which, historically, so many others ( albeit, less spiritual than they, of course ) succumbed.

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