History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... Acts of Oxford . - Hesitancy of the county deputies between the great barons and the crown . LECTURE XII . struggle between Henry III . and his Parliament . - Arbitration of Saint Louis . - The Earl of Leicester heads the great barons ...
... Acts of Oxford . - Hesitancy of the county deputies between the great barons and the crown . LECTURE XII . struggle between Henry III . and his Parliament . - Arbitration of Saint Louis . - The Earl of Leicester heads the great barons ...
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... acts is more profound , and the human mind has more difficulty in discovering it . We have entered upon this inquiry so late , that events already accomplished may serve us as guides . We have no need to ask of some philosophical ...
... acts is more profound , and the human mind has more difficulty in discovering it . We have entered upon this inquiry so late , that events already accomplished may serve us as guides . We have no need to ask of some philosophical ...
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... acts , and the prediction of its future perils . We are no longer in this deplorable position ; the institutions which France has re- ceived from its sovereign have liberated at once the present and the past . Such is the moral strength ...
... acts , and the prediction of its future perils . We are no longer in this deplorable position ; the institutions which France has re- ceived from its sovereign have liberated at once the present and the past . Such is the moral strength ...
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François Guizot. THANES AND CEORLS . 33 with which that political nation acts , which alone furnishes subject - matter for history ? When we address the first question to antiquity , we find , as in Modern Europe , one great ...
François Guizot. THANES AND CEORLS . 33 with which that political nation acts , which alone furnishes subject - matter for history ? When we address the first question to antiquity , we find , as in Modern Europe , one great ...
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... acts , sales , manumissions , wills , were conducted before it , and the publicity of the assembly gave an authentic character to these deeds . Every act , however , was authenticated by a certain number of wit- nesses , and the deeds ...
... acts , sales , manumissions , wills , were conducted before it , and the publicity of the assembly gave an authentic character to these deeds . Every act , however , was authenticated by a certain number of wit- nesses , and the deeds ...
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Page 366 - I. Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Guyan, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting. Know ye that we to the honour of God and of holy Church, and to the profit of our realm, have granted for us and our heirs, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest, which were made by common assent of all the realm, in the time of King Henry our father, shall be kept in every point without breach.