Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 1H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... monarch himself became at last the great holder , and therefore the great feudal lord , with more or less influence and authority , according to the fortune or talents of his ancestors and him- self . Thus , in the course of two ...
... monarch himself became at last the great holder , and therefore the great feudal lord , with more or less influence and authority , according to the fortune or talents of his ancestors and him- self . Thus , in the course of two ...
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... rulers , mutually co - operating for the common good . The legislature seems afterwards to have been , the monarchs and their free assemblies . So much for the first question , by whom the LECT . II . ] 59 LAWS OF THE BARBARIANS .
... rulers , mutually co - operating for the common good . The legislature seems afterwards to have been , the monarchs and their free assemblies . So much for the first question , by whom the LECT . II . ] 59 LAWS OF THE BARBARIANS .
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... are called the Capitularies , a word signifying any composition divided into chapters . These were promulgated by the subsequent monarchs : by Childebert , Clotaire , Carlomagne , and Pepin , but 66 [ LECT . II . MODERN HISTORY .
... are called the Capitularies , a word signifying any composition divided into chapters . These were promulgated by the subsequent monarchs : by Childebert , Clotaire , Carlomagne , and Pepin , but 66 [ LECT . II . MODERN HISTORY .
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... monarchs of a free people . The east has therefore made no advance ; it is still left in a state of inferiority to Europe , and it has derived from Mahomet no accession of wisdom or vigour to rege- nerate its inhabitants , or save them ...
... monarchs of a free people . The east has therefore made no advance ; it is still left in a state of inferiority to Europe , and it has derived from Mahomet no accession of wisdom or vigour to rege- nerate its inhabitants , or save them ...
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... monarch assists at the ceremony as Duke of Normandy . Instances these of the peculiar nature of the two great characteristics of the age , superstition and the feudal system . The next reign opens with the efforts of Philip Augustus to ...
... monarch assists at the ceremony as Duke of Normandy . Instances these of the peculiar nature of the two great characteristics of the age , superstition and the feudal system . The next reign opens with the efforts of Philip Augustus to ...
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