History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... called to their aid . There is no fear that the world will allow itself to be thus ensnared : -progress is the law of its nature ; hope , and not regret , is the spring of its movement : - the future alone possesses an attractive virtue ...
... called to their aid . There is no fear that the world will allow itself to be thus ensnared : -progress is the law of its nature ; hope , and not regret , is the spring of its movement : - the future alone possesses an attractive virtue ...
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... called upon to put you in possession of the facts themselves . The truths which they contain must be seen by yourselves to proceed naturally from them , and must not be allowed a final lodgment in your minds except as they are fortified ...
... called upon to put you in possession of the facts themselves . The truths which they contain must be seen by yourselves to proceed naturally from them , and must not be allowed a final lodgment in your minds except as they are fortified ...
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... called upon to receive and maintain these demand of us , from our earliest youth , those habits of laborious and patient application which will consti- tute our fittest preparation . They require that we should , among our first lessons ...
... called upon to receive and maintain these demand of us , from our earliest youth , those habits of laborious and patient application which will consti- tute our fittest preparation . They require that we should , among our first lessons ...
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... called for severer self - denial . You will find that there is as much feebleness as ingratitude in the disposition that is intimidated and discouraged by the sight of obstacles which still present themselves , when obstacles of a far ...
... called for severer self - denial . You will find that there is as much feebleness as ingratitude in the disposition that is intimidated and discouraged by the sight of obstacles which still present themselves , when obstacles of a far ...
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... called from its chief city , Narbo or Narbonne ; Cæsar calls it simply Provincia , and hence comes the modern name of Provence . Turner's History of the Anglo - Saxons , vol . i . , pp . 180-181 . 26 INVASIONS OF THE GERMANS . the ...
... called from its chief city , Narbo or Narbonne ; Cæsar calls it simply Provincia , and hence comes the modern name of Provence . Turner's History of the Anglo - Saxons , vol . i . , pp . 180-181 . 26 INVASIONS OF THE GERMANS . 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.