They had not had brain-fever, or bones put back into place, or made miraculous recoveries from anything; and they practically said as much when resenting the liberties that were taken with them.
This was regarded as suspicious; and there was inserted in the Scottish Act a provision that the commissioners were to take care that nothing was done which was inconsistent with the ancient rights and liberties of Scotland.
For the preservation of the liberties of Scotland, and to expel the French, an English army was to cross the border.
Arragon, the anarchical privileges which weakened the royal power without efficaciously strengthening the liberties of Spain.
I reckon among the Jansenists all the parliaments who have so unworthily maintained the liberties of the Gallican church.
Put their liberties into the hands of the Papacy, as Arbitrator.
Restrain your liberties and opportunities for service.
And in order to be tried at all, these fallen angels must have certainliberties granted, to prove them.
This, however, was owing to simple force of circumstances and not to any desire of abridging the liberties of the people.
Nevertheless, there was some connection between the institutions and these little liberties which some statesmen might fancy existed in the spirit of the former.
Nothing was meant by all these liberties beyond a desire to dispose of the horses and vehicles in the manner easiest to their owners.
Church was in opposition to the Crown, and was contending for national liberties against the king and his suzerain, the Pope.
Nevertheless the Church, in the person of the primate, now dared to strive against both Pope and king for the liberties of the nation.
The barons were exceeding glad when they heard it, and all took an oath before him that they would fight to the death for the liberties it contained.
From henceforth the Church generally found the State ready to protect her liberties from papal invasion.
And if the change for the better is so slow in yourselves, whom you have in your hands continually, and with whom you can take what liberties you please, what can you expect it to be in others?
And many treated me as a kind of outlaw, as a man who had no rights that anybody was bound to respect; and rude boys and reckless men took liberties with my property, and even threatened me with death.
The liberties taken with the words of Paul went far towards turning the writings of that great advocate and example of holiness into lessons of licentiousness.
Athens procrastinated until it was too late and the liberties of ancient Greece fell, never to rise again, on the fatal field of Chæronea.
As a last appeal he put on his armor and placed himself before the door of his house, as if on guard as a sentinel over the liberties of his country!
This stealthy advance upon the libertiesof the people, seems to have reached its climax at Washington, where the independent members of both parties are in open revolt against "Cannonism.
But it was noticeable, that those who advocated reform policies took no such liberties on the floor of either House.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
And as men act in the insurance of their ships and dwellings, they would act in the insurance of their properties, liberties and lives, in the political association, or government.
And if any political compact between king and people was ever valid to settle the liberties of the people, or to limit the power of the crown, that compact is now to be found in Magna Carta.
On the other hand, any people, that judge of, and determine authoritatively for the government, what are their own libertiesagainst the government, of course retain all the liberties they wish to enjoy.
Unless they judge on this point, they do nothing to protect their liberties against the oppressions that are capable of being practiced under cover of a corrupt exposition of the laws.
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people.
Probably no king every consented, more deliberately or explicitly, to hold his throne subject to specific and enumerated limitations upon his power, than did John when he put his seal to the Great Charter of the Liberties of England.
Heaven for vengeance, but that does not matter, you are still looked upon as the most devout of Christians so long as you respect the rights and liberties of the Church.
Luther, during the time of his crisis, was not only a monk of dangerously wide views, but he was also inclined to take liberties in practice.
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of their country from the beginning of the war.
For it must be apparent to even the dullest intellect that all such violence is an outrage upon the judicial conscience, and therefore involves and puts in peril the liberties of the people.
But it is now proposed to suspend all popular liberties and constitutional safeguards; to muzzle the Press, and actually to have no contests at bye-elections!
As far as popular liberties are concerned, history will make no distinction between Mr. Asquith and Metternich.
We have been grieved to the heart to see in the successive acts of German policy a disregard of the liberties of States, small or great, which is the very negation of civilization.
But soldiers are not always, or even often, at war; and the dishonour of abdicating dearly-bought rights and liberties is a stain both on war and peace.
There he spoke like an Angel, and every body said he defended the Liberties of the Gallican Church so well, that nobody could do it better.
Innocent the IVth, while the Council was held at Lyons, made a Rule that the Cardinals Hat shou'd be red, to denote that they were always ready to shed their Blood for the Libertiesof the Church.
By the revocation of the Edict of Nantes the charter of Protestant liberties was destroyed, and those who had given five out of ten marshals to France, including the great Turenne, were denied the right of civil existence.
Perchance we may have taken too great liberties with those whose hospitalities we enjoyed; should this ever fall under their notice, we doubt not they will fully appreciate the motives which have actuated us in making them public.
Every friend to this country, and to theliberties of the world, must view with satisfaction the gradual improvement in the character and behavior of this class of the community, under the constant operation of the local enactments.
But all these laws concerning by-laws or combinations to prevent people from exercising their trade, or showing what were the liberties of trade in London and other towns (of which there are many) are exemplifications of it.
Then, in 1340, you will find another statute for the liberties of merchants, that they should be allowed the freedom of the kingdom; and a new duty is imposed on wool.
So the Parliament of England established as part of the liberties of the English merchant or trader that he should still have a property in his wreck; and then the question came up as to what was a wreck.
London, liberties and customs of recognized in Magna Charta; laws of relating to labor; statute of, customs of, 1285.
The Populists openly cursed the monopolies and declared that the prerogatives should not be suffered to touch the old liberties of England.
Chapter 13 confirmed the libertiesand customs of London and other cities and seaports--which is interesting as showing how early the notion of free trade prevailed among our ancestors.
As the weakness of the Greeks in the South favoured the rise of the Norman kingdom, so did the liberties of the northern cities shoot up in the absence of the Emperors and the feuds of the princes.
Forty years more were to elapse before the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act; but the foregoing will show how grievously this so-called palladium of an Englishman's liberties was required.
Imprisonment was often lightly and capriciously inflicted in days before British liberties were fully won, and innumerable victims of tyranny and oppression have been lodged in Newgate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liberties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
