Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... Lord Falkland — who more pure a patriot than good John Hampden ? Lord Clarendon wrote with the dignity and grace of Plutarch , and with his philosophic insight into human nature , so that his History of the Rebellion may be read not so ...
... Lord Falkland — who more pure a patriot than good John Hampden ? Lord Clarendon wrote with the dignity and grace of Plutarch , and with his philosophic insight into human nature , so that his History of the Rebellion may be read not so ...
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... Lords , but in this year a new court was established between the Lords and Chancery , called the Court of Lord Justices of Appeal in Chancery . Seven years later the jurisdiction of the old ecclesiastical courts was wholly abolished in ...
... Lords , but in this year a new court was established between the Lords and Chancery , called the Court of Lord Justices of Appeal in Chancery . Seven years later the jurisdiction of the old ecclesiastical courts was wholly abolished in ...
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... Lords and not to the Commons " , which , of course , is a maxim still acknowledged . The chief duty of the Commons ... lord that they were too ignorant and too simple to have any opinion , but prayed the King and his nobles to do what ...
... Lords and not to the Commons " , which , of course , is a maxim still acknowledged . The chief duty of the Commons ... lord that they were too ignorant and too simple to have any opinion , but prayed the King and his nobles to do what ...
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