History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One thing only is important , and that is , that the essential principles of order and liberty should subsist beneath the different forms which the ...
... appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One thing only is important , and that is , that the essential principles of order and liberty should subsist beneath the different forms which the ...
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... appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One thing only is important , and that is , that the essential principles of order and liberty should subsist beneath the different forms which the ...
... appear always with the same lineaments , and to develope themselves by the same means . One thing only is important , and that is , that the essential principles of order and liberty should subsist beneath the different forms which the ...
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... appear under aspects hitherto unknown . Not only does each age receive a vocation to devote itself especially to a particular region of inquiry ; but the same studies are to each age as a mine but little explored , or as an unknown ...
... appear under aspects hitherto unknown . Not only does each age receive a vocation to devote itself especially to a particular region of inquiry ; but the same studies are to each age as a mine but little explored , or as an unknown ...
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... appears so startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary crises , which , so to speak , entirely delocalize man , and transport him to a different sphere . Such revolutions , it is true , do not unfold themselves in ...
... appears so startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary crises , which , so to speak , entirely delocalize man , and transport him to a different sphere . Such revolutions , it is true , do not unfold themselves in ...
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... appear . In accordance with this prevailing circumstance of our times , two opposite tendencies are observable in those opinions and writings which have passed a verdict on the ancient political institutions of Europe . On the one hand ...
... appear . In accordance with this prevailing circumstance of our times , two opposite tendencies are observable in those opinions and writings which have passed a verdict on the ancient political institutions of Europe . On the one hand ...
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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.