History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe, Volume 20H.G. Bohn, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... truth , the trials of 1820 were severe and painful , yet the State was not thrown into con- fusion by them , and they were followed by ten years of regular and free government . In 1830 , a still severer trial , the test of a revolution ...
... truth , the trials of 1820 were severe and painful , yet the State was not thrown into con- fusion by them , and they were followed by ten years of regular and free government . In 1830 , a still severer trial , the test of a revolution ...
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... truth is especially apparent . The facts about which history concerns itself neither gain nor lose anything by being handed down from age to age ; what- ever we have seen in these facts , and whatever we can see , B 2 VIEWS OF HISTORY ...
... truth is especially apparent . The facts about which history concerns itself neither gain nor lose anything by being handed down from age to age ; what- ever we have seen in these facts , and whatever we can see , B 2 VIEWS OF HISTORY ...
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... truth of things than fatal to the society which entertains it . Provi- dence does not so unequally deal with the generations of men , as to impoverish some in order that the rest may be lavishly endowed at their expense . It is ...
... truth of things than fatal to the society which entertains it . Provi- dence does not so unequally deal with the generations of men , as to impoverish some in order that the rest may be lavishly endowed at their expense . It is ...
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... Truth , jus tice , and rectitude , are also graced by venerable titles ; and at no period has man allowed them to be proscribed . Take in succession all the moral needs , all the legitimate interests of our society , arrange them in ...
... Truth , jus tice , and rectitude , are also graced by venerable titles ; and at no period has man allowed them to be proscribed . Take in succession all the moral needs , all the legitimate interests of our society , arrange them in ...
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... truth which it has known , and the good which it has aimed at or accomplished . Time has not been endowed with the unhallowed office of consecrating evil or error ; on the contrary , it unmasks and consumes them . To spare them because ...
... truth which it has known , and the good which it has aimed at or accomplished . Time has not been endowed with the unhallowed office of consecrating evil or error ; on the contrary , it unmasks and consumes them . To spare them because ...
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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.