History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... regards the classif tion of social conditions . - State of persons among the Anglo Saxons . - Thanes and Ceorls . - Central and local institutions.— Predominance of the latter among the Anglo - Saxons . - Its cause · 23 32 viii PREFACE ...
... regards the classif tion of social conditions . - State of persons among the Anglo Saxons . - Thanes and Ceorls . - Central and local institutions.— Predominance of the latter among the Anglo - Saxons . - Its cause · 23 32 viii PREFACE ...
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... regard to his ever - active and ever - limited intelligence . This combined view of the greatness of events and the feeble- ness of the human mind , never appears so startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary ...
... regard to his ever - active and ever - limited intelligence . This combined view of the greatness of events and the feeble- ness of the human mind , never appears so startlingly distinct as upon the occurrence of those extraordinary ...
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... regard to that subject which is to come before us in the present course of lectures . It is from the midst of the new political order which has commenced in Europe in our own days that we are about to consider , I do not say naturally ...
... regard to that subject which is to come before us in the present course of lectures . It is from the midst of the new political order which has commenced in Europe in our own days that we are about to consider , I do not say naturally ...
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... regard for justice , love of liberty , all that makes society dignified and secure , were a discovery of to - day , made by the generation which has last appeared . In thus renouncing its ancestors , this generation forgets that it will ...
... regard for justice , love of liberty , all that makes society dignified and secure , were a discovery of to - day , made by the generation which has last appeared . In thus renouncing its ancestors , this generation forgets that it will ...
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... regard it as making common cause with the enemies of present amelioration , and the weapons employed by these latter confirm this idea in their mind . Gentlemen , the notion is full of falsehood and misapprehension . It is not true that ...
... regard it as making common cause with the enemies of present amelioration , and the weapons employed by these latter confirm this idea in their mind . Gentlemen , the notion is full of falsehood and misapprehension . It is not true that ...
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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.