History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... monarchy remained standing , and events justified the obstinacy of our hopes . But now the storm has struck every institution , and still threatens to destroy all that survive . Not merely kings and laws , but the very root of ...
... monarchy remained standing , and events justified the obstinacy of our hopes . But now the storm has struck every institution , and still threatens to destroy all that survive . Not merely kings and laws , but the very root of ...
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... monarchy . We have been carried far away from our design ; we have immensely deceived ourselves and gone astray in our presumptuous hopes ; but we should no less deceive ourselves in our sceptical despondency . God , who permits the ...
... monarchy . We have been carried far away from our design ; we have immensely deceived ourselves and gone astray in our presumptuous hopes ; but we should no less deceive ourselves in our sceptical despondency . God , who permits the ...
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... monarchy · Page 41 LECTURE V. The Wittenagemot ; its business and power . - Method of its con- vocation . - Vicissitudes of its character and importance . - The kingly office among the Anglo - Saxons . - Extent and progress of the royal ...
... monarchy · Page 41 LECTURE V. The Wittenagemot ; its business and power . - Method of its con- vocation . - Vicissitudes of its character and importance . - The kingly office among the Anglo - Saxons . - Extent and progress of the royal ...
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... monarchy . - The Franks in Germany . Their settle- ment in Belgium and in Gaul . - Character and authority of their chiefs after their establishment in the Roman Empire . — Early Frankish chieftains . - Clovis : his expeditions , wars ...
... monarchy . - The Franks in Germany . Their settle- ment in Belgium and in Gaul . - Character and authority of their chiefs after their establishment in the Roman Empire . — Early Frankish chieftains . - Clovis : his expeditions , wars ...
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... monarchy . -Tributary lands . - Their origin and nature . Their rapid ex- tension its causes . - General view of the condition of territorial property , from the sixth to the eleventh century : First , diffe- rent conditions of ...
... monarchy . -Tributary lands . - Their origin and nature . Their rapid ex- tension its causes . - General view of the condition of territorial property , from the sixth to the eleventh century : First , diffe- rent conditions of ...
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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.