The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen, Zväzok 7

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Strana 166 - God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee : and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place His name there.
Strana 201 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work ; and also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work...
Strana 125 - Coke in his commentary upon this statute says, that these words, " by the law of the land," mean " by the due course and process of law;" which he afterwards explains to be, "by indictment or presentment of good and lawful men, where such deeds be done in due manner, or by writ original of the common law:" 2 Inst. 45, 50. In North Carolina and Tennessee, where they have copied almost literally this part of the twenty-ninth chapter of Magna Charta, the terms "law of the land" have received the same...
Strana 13 - Lincoln's-inn-fields, upon some business of importance ; but I excused myself from complying with the message, as, besides being lame, I was very ill with the great fatigues I had lately undergone, added to my distemper. His grace, however, sent Mr. Carrington, the very next morning, with another summons ; with which, though in the utmost distress, I immediately complied ; but the duke happening, unfortunately for me, to be then particularly engaged, after I had waited some time, sent a gentleman...
Strana 376 - Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere, pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, et vera incessu patuit dea. Ille ubi matrem 405 adgnovit, tali fugientem est voce secutus : ' Quid natum totiens, crudelis tu quoque, falsis ludis imaginibus? cur dextrae jungere dextram non datur, ac veras audire et reddere voces?
Strana 223 - Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that wherever any person taketh money or reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account of helping any person...
Strana 358 - We're often taught it doth behove us To think those greater who're above us. Another instance of my glory, Who live above you twice two story, And from my garret can look down On the whole street of...
Strana 16 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
Strana 281 - And sure no one will contend that the epistolary style is in general the most proper to a novelist, or that it hath been used by the best writers of this kind.
Strana 241 - Officers of justice have owned to me, that they have passed by such with warrants in their pockets against them without daring to apprehend them ; and, indeed, they could not be blamed for not exposing themselves to sure destruction ; for it is a melancholy truth, that, at this very day, a rogue no sooner gives the alarm, within certain purlieus, than twenty or thirty armed villains are found ready to come to his assistance.

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