History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... persons com- bined to establish a Journal des Cours Publiques , in which they reproduced , from their notes , the lectures which they had attended . The course which I delivered , at this period , on the history of Representative ...
... persons com- bined to establish a Journal des Cours Publiques , in which they reproduced , from their notes , the lectures which they had attended . The course which I delivered , at this period , on the history of Representative ...
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... in representative government and monarchy ? I have not escaped , any more than other persons , from the anxiety occasioned by this doubt . Nevertheless , in propor- PREFACE . vii tion as the events which have weighed.
... in representative government and monarchy ? I have not escaped , any more than other persons , from the anxiety occasioned by this doubt . Nevertheless , in propor- PREFACE . vii tion as the events which have weighed.
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... persons neces- sary to the proper study of institutions . - Essential difference between antiquity and modern societies , as regards the classif tion of social conditions . - State of persons among the Anglo Saxons . - Thanes and Ceorls ...
... persons neces- sary to the proper study of institutions . - Essential difference between antiquity and modern societies , as regards the classif tion of social conditions . - State of persons among the Anglo Saxons . - Thanes and Ceorls ...
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... persons , from the fifth to the tenth century . - Im- possibility of determining this , according to any fixed and general principle . - The condition of lands not always correspon- dent with that of persons.- Variable and unsettled ...
... persons , from the fifth to the tenth century . - Im- possibility of determining this , according to any fixed and general principle . - The condition of lands not always correspon- dent with that of persons.- Variable and unsettled ...
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... persons think so ; but impartiality , which is the duty of all times , is , in my opinion , the mission of ours : -not that cold and unprofitable impartiality which is the offspring of indif- ference , but that energetic and fruitful ...
... persons think so ; but impartiality , which is the duty of all times , is , in my opinion , the mission of ours : -not that cold and unprofitable impartiality which is the offspring of indif- ference , but that energetic and fruitful ...
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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.