History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... 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 interference of the country in its own affairs may assume amongst different ...
... 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 interference of the country in its own affairs may assume amongst different ...
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... 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 interference of the country in its own affairs may assume amongst different ...
... 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 interference of the country in its own affairs may assume amongst different ...
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... means of acquiring and retain- ing them . - Obligations of the Leudes . - The Leudes are the origin of the nobility . - Bishops and heads of monasteries were reckoned among the leudes of the king . - Moral and material of the bishops ...
... means of acquiring and retain- ing them . - Obligations of the Leudes . - The Leudes are the origin of the nobility . - Bishops and heads of monasteries were reckoned among the leudes of the king . - Moral and material of the bishops ...
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... means neither approbation nor silence for that which is false , culpable , or dangerous . The past deserves no gratitude or consideration from us , except on account of the truth which it has known , and the good which it has aimed at ...
... means neither approbation nor silence for that which is false , culpable , or dangerous . The past deserves no gratitude or consideration from us , except on account of the truth which it has known , and the good which it has aimed at ...
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... means they have sought for trustworthy institutions , which might guarantee the con- tinuance at once of order and of liberty . And when we have seen their hopes deceived by the calamities of the times , when we have detected in the ...
... means they have sought for trustworthy institutions , which might guarantee the con- tinuance at once of order and of liberty . And when we have seen their hopes deceived by the calamities of the times , when we have detected in the ...
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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.