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... measures by which they have attained self - government , all are essential to an adequate understanding of the growth of the English nation . Within the limits imposed by text - book dimensions we have en- deavored to bring out these ...
... measures by which they have attained self - government , all are essential to an adequate understanding of the growth of the English nation . Within the limits imposed by text - book dimensions we have en- deavored to bring out these ...
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... measure by race inheritance , since the English are Teutons by origin , while the Irish , Welsh , and Scots are Celts ; but even more is due to the modifying influence of physical conditions . Ireland , Wales , and Scotland have been ...
... measure by race inheritance , since the English are Teutons by origin , while the Irish , Welsh , and Scots are Celts ; but even more is due to the modifying influence of physical conditions . Ireland , Wales , and Scotland have been ...
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... measures has reversed conditions , and the densely populated counties lie to - day north of the Trent.1 The Pennine district affords , however , but a fraction of the mineral wealth of England . The rocky promontory of Cornwall bears ...
... measures has reversed conditions , and the densely populated counties lie to - day north of the Trent.1 The Pennine district affords , however , but a fraction of the mineral wealth of England . The rocky promontory of Cornwall bears ...
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... measures that originally covered its surface were carried away ages ago by glacial action . Isolated fragments of the once abundant store are found in the hills , but the output of the mines is quite inadequate to the industrial needs ...
... measures that originally covered its surface were carried away ages ago by glacial action . Isolated fragments of the once abundant store are found in the hills , but the output of the mines is quite inadequate to the industrial needs ...
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... measures . The insurgent districts 1 Henceforth the kings of England were regularly crowned at West- minster . 2 Many lesser men obtained royal license to conquer lands from the Weish , and establishing themselves in strongholds along ...
... measures . The insurgent districts 1 Henceforth the kings of England were regularly crowned at West- minster . 2 Many lesser men obtained royal license to conquer lands from the Weish , and establishing themselves in strongholds along ...
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Page 243 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 122 - ... him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man, either justice or right.
Page 207 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 352 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 292 - As for the absolute prerogative of the Crown, that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that, but | rest in that which is the King's will revealed in his law.
Page 297 - Rights and Liberties, but that his Royal will and Command, in imposing Loans, and Taxes, without consent of Parliament, doth oblige the subject's conscience upon pain of eternal damnation.
Page 45 - I, then, Alfred, King, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan...
Page 207 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm...
Page 271 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 427 - THAT AND A' THAT Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a