History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... less deceive ourselves in our sceptical despondency . God , who permits the burden of their faults to fall upon nations , does not make their own life to be to them a continuous false- hood and a fatal snare ; our whole history , our ...
... less deceive ourselves in our sceptical despondency . God , who permits the burden of their faults to fall upon nations , does not make their own life to be to them a continuous false- hood and a fatal snare ; our whole history , our ...
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... less utility . We will then frankly accept a position which , in my opinion , is favourable , and certainly inevitable . We attempt to - day , and with good reason , to reconnect what we now are with what we formerly were ; we feel the ...
... less utility . We will then frankly accept a position which , in my opinion , is favourable , and certainly inevitable . We attempt to - day , and with good reason , to reconnect what we now are with what we formerly were ; we feel the ...
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... less contrary to the truth of things than fatal to the society which entertains it . Provi- dence does not so unequally deal with the generations of men , as to impoverish some in order that the rest may be lavishly endowed at their ...
... less contrary to the truth of things than fatal to the society which entertains it . Provi- dence does not so unequally deal with the generations of men , as to impoverish some in order that the rest may be lavishly endowed at their ...
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... less careful with regard to humanity ; and the chains which have not sufficed to confine it , are still less able to resume the grasp which they have lost . But the efforts of a retrograde system have often per- verted the study of ...
... less careful with regard to humanity ; and the chains which have not sufficed to confine it , are still less able to resume the grasp which they have lost . But the efforts of a retrograde system have often per- verted the study of ...
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... less doubtful . Unity and consecutiveness are not lacking in the moral world , as they are not in the physical . The moral world has , like the system of celestial bodies , its laws and activity ; only the secret according to which it ...
... less doubtful . Unity and consecutiveness are not lacking in the moral world , as they are not in the physical . The moral world has , like the system of celestial bodies , its laws and activity ; only the secret according to which it ...
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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.