Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Examples of 18th and 19th-century literature Mirroring the Verbiage of D&C 21:1 (cf. D&C 20:1)

  

That your Petitioner about Trinity-Term, in the Year of you Lord 1689. exhibited his Bill of Complaint into the High Court of Chancery, thereby setting forth, That your Petitioner about the Year 1682. (Cursus Cancellariae; Or, The Courst of Proceedings In the High Court of Chancery [2d ed.; J. Walthoe, 1723], 405)

 

 

It has been observ’d by a very learned, and eminent author, that the present collection of Oracles was made, between the year of your Lord 138, and the year 167. It cou’d not be earlier, for therein mention is made of the next successor or Adrian, that is Antoninus Pius, who did not succeed him, till the year 138. And it cou’d not be later, because Justin Martyr in his writings, several times quotes it, and appeals to it, who did not out live the year 167 (n). (Rob Turner, The Calumnies Upon the Primitive Christians Accounted For [London: M. J., 1727], 205)

 

 

The names of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, in the Parliament assembled, summoned to meet at Dublin the twenty-eighth day of November, in the first year of the reign of the most gracious Majesty King GEORGE the second, and in the year of your Lord 1727 [Latin: annoque Domini 1727] (The Journals of the House of Commons, of the Kingdom of Ireland, From the Eleventh Year of King James the First [2d ed.; Dublin: Abraham Bradley, 1763], 685)

 

 

The following is taken from National Archives Microfilm Publications No. 399: Travella and Others v. The United States (1810):

 



  

And Whereas afterwards to wit: on the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, come Francois [Crevilla] , Honore Fortier, Jose' [Nozar?], Francois Normand, Guillaume d'Arbonne, Pierre Coulon, Laurent [Olongit?] Francois; Signed by Edward [Barrington?] Esq'r; — their attorney and file their petition of appeal in the words following to wit:

  






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