An Historical Development of the Present Political Constitution of the Germanic Empire, 2. cilt

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T. Payne and son, 1790
 

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Sayfa 169 - Imperial grants, inveftitures, and thejurifdicYion as exercifed in the Imperial courts of judicature, with refe-rvation of the refort to the Auftregues ; or whether it depends upon the confent of the diet, the two fuperior colleges of the empire, or of the eleftoral college alone.
Sayfa 169 - Hill remains refpecling the fovereign rights of the emperor over mediate members, either in the cafe of complaints made againft their ordinary government, or by virtue of certain referved rights which exifted before the rife of territorial fovereignty, and have remained throughout Germany in the emperor's power. Thefe are, in particular,, his right of railing to a higher rank, conferring academical honours, and nominating counts palatine of his court, and notaries.
Sayfa 130 - Monday abolished entirely. The edict was but little attended to, except in Brandenburg. In many places it was not even promulgated. The Emperor Francis renewed it in 1764, and a decree of the empire was passed to abolish Blue Monday in 1771-2 ; but, notwithstanding this, the old custom prevails, and every Monday throughout the year, in most of the German territories, is still blue.
Sayfa 334 - Stollberg-Weinigerode gave upwards of nine hundred of them a comfortable dinner in his palace. In many places, carriages were provided for the fick, the aged, and the children. The Duke of .Brunfwick ordered them to be treated in the moft liberal manner ; the fick were provided with wholefome medicines, and their other neceflities relieved. In moft of the towns which they went through, they marched in regular order, and ufually attended divine fervice in the churches, where the clergy adapted their...
Sayfa 334 - ... upwards of nine hundred of them a comfortable dinner in his palace. In many places, carriages were provided for the fick, the aged, and the children. The Duke of .Brunfwick ordered them to be treated in the moft liberal manner ; the fick were provided with wholefome medicines, and their other neceflities relieved. In moft of the towns which they went through, they marched in regular order, and ufually attended divine fervice in the churches, where the clergy adapted their fermons to the occafion,...
Sayfa 128 - It was formerly (and in many countries it is still) the custom in Germany, for the journeymen, &c. employed in the lower kinds of trade, to consider every Monday as a day set apart for idleness, and no inducement can prevail upon them to apply themselves to work. Perhaps the custom was derived from the postfestum mentioned in the canon law ; and the expression
Sayfa 336 - ... his hands and clothes, and many, ( from an impulfe of gratitude, fell at his feet. The king immediately ordered them to be quartered at the inns, and to be provided with comfortable food, and whatever elfe they flood in need of, at his own expence. At Berlin, and all the other places they went through, they met with a reception equally hofpitable; and in Pruflia, where they fettled, they were indulged with their full liberty, and provided with everything neceflary for their eftablifhment and...
Sayfa 170 - Weftphalia, feme doubts arc ftill remaining concerning what cafes, befides thofe which are exprefsly mentioned as belonging to the Diet, are included in the claufe annexed, which mentions " other fimilar cafes." Even in thofe matters which belong to the Diet, particularly when any thing is in queftion which is to have the force of law throughout the Empire, and the weight of which is likely to fall upon the States themfelves, the balance feems more in favour of the States than of the Emperor.
Sayfa 168 - ... in fuch a feat and voice. Thefe are the free Imperial nobility, or knighthood of the empire, and the Imperial villages. Many noblemen's...
Sayfa 169 - Yet even thefe rights cannot be exercifed with any legal effecl:, or acknowledged in moft countries, without their being firft fubmitted to the examination and approbation of the territorial Lord. No fovereignty whatever can be exercifed over immediate members of the Empire, except in the name of the Emperor ; but with this...

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