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... Roman Catholic cathedral of Saint Chad , a noble Gothic church designed by Pugin , richly adorned with stained - glass windows , and with fine 16th cen- tury pulpit and stalls ; the oratory of Saint Philip Neri ( founded by Cardinal ...
... Roman Catholic cathedral of Saint Chad , a noble Gothic church designed by Pugin , richly adorned with stained - glass windows , and with fine 16th cen- tury pulpit and stalls ; the oratory of Saint Philip Neri ( founded by Cardinal ...
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... Roman road of which an original portion is still visible in Sutton Park . It was the home of the Ber- mings the young , or progeny of Berm , from whence the name is derived . It was a place of comparatively small importance at the Con ...
... Roman road of which an original portion is still visible in Sutton Park . It was the home of the Ber- mings the young , or progeny of Berm , from whence the name is derived . It was a place of comparatively small importance at the Con ...
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... Roman Cath- olic writers , it does not follow because the names priest and bishop were then applied in- distinctly , that there existed no distinction be- tween the episcopate and the priesthood . " There might have been confusion in ...
... Roman Cath- olic writers , it does not follow because the names priest and bishop were then applied in- distinctly , that there existed no distinction be- tween the episcopate and the priesthood . " There might have been confusion in ...
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... Roman see . After the transfer of the capital of the Roman empire to Constantinople , this city rapidly rose to ecclesiastical importance and became a metropolitan see . Its bishops made claim to be the first see in the Christian world ...
... Roman see . After the transfer of the capital of the Roman empire to Constantinople , this city rapidly rose to ecclesiastical importance and became a metropolitan see . Its bishops made claim to be the first see in the Christian world ...
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... Roman Catholic Church are nominally in charge of dioceses in coun- tries which do not acknowledge the Christian faith . The dioceses of such bishops are said to lie in partibus infidelium ( in parts belonging to unbelievers ) , and they ...
... Roman Catholic Church are nominally in charge of dioceses in coun- tries which do not acknowledge the Christian faith . The dioceses of such bishops are said to lie in partibus infidelium ( in parts belonging to unbelievers ) , and they ...
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Page 329 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 329 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth^ in the Bay of Fundy to its source; and from its source directly North to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the Rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 97 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 358 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 333 - Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river...
Page 330 - River, to a point in the middle of that river, about one mile above St. George's or Sugar Island, so as to appropriate and assign the said island to the United States; thence, adopting the line traced on the maps by the Commissioners, thro
Page 328 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 329 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Page 329 - Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 331 - Equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river, and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic Ocean : — East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St.