PIERSON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1782; entered navy 27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. “You saw that note I wrote just now?” said the French detective. “It was to my people at the inn.
39. Furthermore, the administration of the ecclesiastic power in consistories, classes and synods, doth not at all tend to weaken in anywise, hurt or diminish, the authority of the civil magistrate, much less to take it away or destroy it; yea, rather, by it a most profitable help cometh to the magistrate, forasmuch as by the bond of religion men’s consciences are more straitly tied unto him. Lord Henry, who had now discuss’d his chocolate, Also the muffin whereof he complain’d, Said, Juan had not got his usual look elate, At which he marvell’d, since it had not rain’d; Then ask’d her Grace what news were of the duke of late? Her Grace replied, his Grace was rather pain’d With some slight, light, hereditary twinges Of gout, which rusts aristocratic hinges.
of Ireland, on the occasion of his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836; captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. Yesterday I received from France the fingerprints and the Bertillon measurements of King Victor—the so-called Captain O’Neill. I have asked for them to be sent up to me here.
There has been, indeed, fantastical men, who, under pretence and cloak of Christian liberty, would abolish and cast out laws and judgments, orders also, degrees and honours, out of the commonwealth, and have been bold to reckon the function of the magistrate armed with the sword among evil things and unlawful: but the reformed churches do renounce and detest these dreams, and do most harmoniously and most willingly confess and acknowledge it to be God’s will that the world be governed by laws and policy, and that he himself hath appointed the civil magistrate, and hath delivered to him the sword to the protection and praise of good men, but for punishment and revenge on the evil, that by this bridle, men’s vices and faults may be restrained, whether these are committed against the first or second table. 1857. _d._ Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. In a few minutes we shall _know_ whether you are the man!”
_G.M. May 1858 p._ 553.