History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... influence . -The Officium palatinum . - Prevalence of Roman maxims and institutions , among the Goths , over Germanic traditions . - Proof of this in the local and central institutions of the Visigoths.- Refutation of the errors of ...
... influence . -The Officium palatinum . - Prevalence of Roman maxims and institutions , among the Goths , over Germanic traditions . - Proof of this in the local and central institutions of the Visigoths.- Refutation of the errors of ...
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... influence . The ancient liberty of the forest , the earliest attempts at monarchical system , the nascent elements of the feudal régime , -such were the powers which were then struggling for pre- eminence in society . No general ...
... influence . The ancient liberty of the forest , the earliest attempts at monarchical system , the nascent elements of the feudal régime , -such were the powers which were then struggling for pre- eminence in society . No general ...
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... influence of any disorderly or perverse desires , the causes of the ill - success of these mag- nanimous attempts , we shall be brought by our subject into the very midst of that people , then treated more leniently by fortune , which ...
... influence of any disorderly or perverse desires , the causes of the ill - success of these mag- nanimous attempts , we shall be brought by our subject into the very midst of that people , then treated more leniently by fortune , which ...
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... influence merely of luxurious or impatient feelings , it denies to him those honours and advantages which he expected to gain from its possession . It was the error of the preceding age that , while it aimed at urging the minds of men ...
... influence merely of luxurious or impatient feelings , it denies to him those honours and advantages which he expected to gain from its possession . It was the error of the preceding age that , while it aimed at urging the minds of men ...
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... influence extended all over the kingdom , and he only awaited the king's death to take possession of the crown . Edward died , Harold naturally succeeded to throne . No one in England contested his usurpation . But William the Bastard ...
... influence extended all over the kingdom , and he only awaited the king's death to take possession of the crown . Edward died , Harold naturally succeeded to throne . No one in England contested his usurpation . But William the Bastard ...
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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.