Frequent allusions are made in imperial edicts and other official proclamations to the Tungani, but always in reference to their religion, and not in any way as if they were any other but heretic Chinamen.
Imperial edicts are soon employed to suppress the Reformation in the Netherlands by force.
This and similaredicts were the law of the land for twenty years, and rigidly enforced.
Burgomasters and other citizens had been beheaded in great numbers for appealing to their statutes against the edicts of the regent, for voting in favor of a general congress according to the unquestionable law.
The Hindus have for centuries been governed by their own laws, which they regard not as the edicts of a political sovereign, nor as the enactments of a human legislature, but as the immutable commands of the Supreme Being of the universe.
The general marriage law of the European continent has been derived and developed from the edicts of the Roman emperors and the decrees of the Christian Church.
His rock-inscribed edicts (for which see Max Müller, Introd.
Among the principal evidences in favour of the Vaudois, I must here refer to the large collection of edicts respecting them, published by the court of Turin.
Papal edicts against heretics had made familiar to all men the notion that a judge should at times proceed summarie et de plano et sine strepitu et figura justitiae.
There are actually imperial edicts extant forbidden freemen to sell themselves as slaves.
As a result of various influences, the edicts against Christianity were removed from the signboards in 1873.
This was an event of the utmost importance to Christian work, for, although the infringement of the edicts had been for some time winked at, their very existence before the eyes of the people had a great deterring effect.
The luxury of gastronomy was carried to such a point in France that edicts were issued by several French kings for the purpose of restraining it; but the Italian cooks whom Catherine de Medici brought to the court of Henri II.
Tiers État having formulated the same request, a royal order was published, which served as basis to the edicts on this subject published by Henry IV.
In process of time, however, a series of edictswere issued against judicial duelling.
The imperial edicts for these acts were obtained in 399.
However the persecution against the wanderers went on, and more cruel edicts were given forth against them, while a relenting abatement of severity was pretended against other dissenters.
During the first half, edicts or notices of residencia were posted throughout the district of the official concerned.
It was said that he had neglected to publish the governor's edicts (bandos) from Manila.
Footnote 583: The principal single edictsare (1) that known as Minor Rock Edict I.
Asoka has won immortality by the Edicts which he caused to be engraved on stone[580].
In the two series of Rock and Pillar Edicts there is little dogmatic Buddhism.
The Law or Religion (Dhamma) which his edicts enjoin is merely human and civic virtue, except that it makes respect for animal life an integral part of morality.
Seven Pillar Edicts dating from the 27th and 28th years, and found in six recensions.
Though he says nothing about it in the Edictswhich have been discovered, he erected numerous religious buildings including the Sanchi tope and the original temple at Bodh-Gaya.
On this hypothesis all hisedicts are the utterances of a Buddhist.
Emperor whose dominions comprised nearly all India made it the state religion and also engraved on rocks and pillars a long series of edicts recording his opinions and aspirations.
In the 27th and 28th year of his reign he composed another series of Edicts and this time had them carved in pillars not on rocks.
Christian critics of Buddhism are apt to say that it has a paralyzing effect on the nations who adopt it, but Asoka's edicts teem with words like energy and strenuousness.
For good or evil he greatly developed and complicated the teaching of Christ, but the Edicts of Asoka if compared with the Pitakas seem to curtail and simplify their doctrines.
The fragmentary edictsof the emperors, the numerous military trophies, and the records of complicated political orders, indicate the might and majesty of the Empire in the days of its utmost power and splendour.
These edicts were enforced by all the power of the civil government, and by the activity of four inquisitors.
Two offenders were now arraigned before the council of Quebec: the first was Perrot, charged with disobeying the royal edicts and resisting the royal authority; the other was the Abbe Fenelon.
It does not appear that this frightful severity produced any result, for, from year to year, new edicts were constantly appearing, redoubling these rigorous measures against the mendicants.
The Parlement was formally forbidden to put forth any remonstrances regarding the edicts which concerned the government and the administration of the State.
In short, there are seven detailed edicts on these subjects, some copies of which are still extant at Jerusalem.
These seventy weeks begin with the restoration and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, concerning which four edicts were issued by three kings.
In plain English, he ruled a majority of the Assembly; and his edicts were registered by that body with less opposition than those of the Grand Monarque have met with from his parliaments.
Hence Plato looked upon it as a very necessary precaution to place at the head of alledicts a preamble, setting forth their justice and utility.
In such a situation, it is vain to add edicts to edicts and regulations to regulations.
Finally, to prevent intrigues and trafficking in votes, edicts were issued; but their very number proves how useless they were.
In Raetia and the Gallic provinces some centurions and men carrying letters and edicts from Vespasian were taken prisoners and sent to Vitellius, who had them executed.
In his official letters and edicts he still acknowledged Vitellius, while in secret communication with Vespasian and ready to support whichever party proved successful.
Then again the Treviri and Lingones[101] and the other communities which Galba had punished by issuing harsh edicts and confiscating part of their territory, were in close communication with the winter quarters of the legions.
Every Man in France knew, that the chief Motive of all those Edicts against Duelling, was the Loss of the brave Men that was sustain'd by that Custom.
The rights of the people and the states have been disregarded, and the edicts of the supreme court have been substituted for constitutional law.
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