The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 84A. Constable, 1846 |
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... improving Medical science . In one of them — a Letter , Sur la manière de perfectionner la Médécine - he suggests the importance of a system of complete Statistics of public health and disease ; in his controversy with Stahl , he urges ...
... improving Medical science . In one of them — a Letter , Sur la manière de perfectionner la Médécine - he suggests the importance of a system of complete Statistics of public health and disease ; in his controversy with Stahl , he urges ...
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... improved Watches which were never constructed his Hydrau- lic and Pneumatic engines , which existed only in theory - his Swift Carriages , which existed only in imagination , were monu- ments alike of his enterprise and his temerity ...
... improved Watches which were never constructed his Hydrau- lic and Pneumatic engines , which existed only in theory - his Swift Carriages , which existed only in imagination , were monu- ments alike of his enterprise and his temerity ...
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... improvement of their roads , and the protection of the markets which they frequent . They are strongly of opinion that no wanton attacks , or unnecessary expeditions , should be made against the Tribes , -such as the Kabyles of Djer ...
... improvement of their roads , and the protection of the markets which they frequent . They are strongly of opinion that no wanton attacks , or unnecessary expeditions , should be made against the Tribes , -such as the Kabyles of Djer ...
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... improvement gained . Showing , as we shall be able to do , that no uniform system has ever been adopted in this ... improvements . There are three different parties to whose intelligence the Legislative Draftsman must address his labours ...
... improvement gained . Showing , as we shall be able to do , that no uniform system has ever been adopted in this ... improvements . There are three different parties to whose intelligence the Legislative Draftsman must address his labours ...
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... improvement of the statutes ; and the few amendments which have been lately introduced , only show how wide a field there is for beneficial alteration . With the exception of these partial experiments , all the reforms which a hundred ...
... improvement of the statutes ; and the few amendments which have been lately introduced , only show how wide a field there is for beneficial alteration . With the exception of these partial experiments , all the reforms which a hundred ...
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Page 368 - ... that the law was the golden metwand and measure to try the causes of the subjects, and which protected his Majesty in safety and peace. With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
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