History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... meet it , if we would have its sanction to our thoughts , and its aid to our utterance . In this spirit , gentlemen , we shall attempt to consider the ancient political institutions of Europe , and to sketch their history . While for ...
... meet it , if we would have its sanction to our thoughts , and its aid to our utterance . In this spirit , gentlemen , we shall attempt to consider the ancient political institutions of Europe , and to sketch their history . While for ...
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... meet with attempts , more or less successful , either made with a con- scious regard to this system so as to produce it naturally , or striving to attain it by the subjugation of contrary forces . England , France , Spain , Portugal ...
... meet with attempts , more or less successful , either made with a con- scious regard to this system so as to produce it naturally , or striving to attain it by the subjugation of contrary forces . England , France , Spain , Portugal ...
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... meet with those general institu- tions , under the empire of which people unite themselves , and which demand the manifestation of general society in its government , -wherever we perceive no trace of the repre- sentative system , and ...
... meet with those general institu- tions , under the empire of which people unite themselves , and which demand the manifestation of general society in its government , -wherever we perceive no trace of the repre- sentative system , and ...
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... meet it . But the free institutions which we are 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 ...
... meet it . But the free institutions which we are 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 ...
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... meet with nothing that will not continually deepen your attachment to your age and to your country . So far as I myself am concerned , may I be allowed , gen- tlemen , in entering with you to - day upon the study of the ancient ...
... meet with nothing that will not continually deepen your attachment to your age and to your country . So far as I myself am concerned , may I be allowed , gen- tlemen , in entering with you to - day upon the study of the ancient ...
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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.