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... possessed by the man , who may , indeed , have read much more , but who has read without selection and system ; and whose mind , as to history , must ( to borrow a phrase of Dryden ) be only full of " a confused mass of thoughts ...
... possessed by the man , who may , indeed , have read much more , but who has read without selection and system ; and whose mind , as to history , must ( to borrow a phrase of Dryden ) be only full of " a confused mass of thoughts ...
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... possessed this , but they had also peculiar merits . The domestic virtues flourished no- where more than in a German home . * Polygamy was almost entirely unknown among them ; and infanticide was looked on with the utmost horror . The ...
... possessed this , but they had also peculiar merits . The domestic virtues flourished no- where more than in a German home . * Polygamy was almost entirely unknown among them ; and infanticide was looked on with the utmost horror . The ...
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... possessing , together with many of the vices of the savage state , its usual merit of irregular valour , Cæsar led the Roman legions about half a cen- tury before the Christian era . But his invasion , though attended with victory , and ...
... possessing , together with many of the vices of the savage state , its usual merit of irregular valour , Cæsar led the Roman legions about half a cen- tury before the Christian era . But his invasion , though attended with victory , and ...
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... possessing powers of self- government and taxation , and the inhabitants of each electing their own decurions or senators , from among whom the magistrates were appointed . We may be partly indebted to this , the Roman influence on the ...
... possessing powers of self- government and taxation , and the inhabitants of each electing their own decurions or senators , from among whom the magistrates were appointed . We may be partly indebted to this , the Roman influence on the ...
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... possessed over the mass of the free commonalty , the Ceorls . The superior body was not composed of an hereditary caste , or noblesse . It was an aristocracy , but it was open to receive recruits from the ranks below it . Any Ceorl ...
... possessed over the mass of the free commonalty , the Ceorls . The superior body was not composed of an hereditary caste , or noblesse . It was an aristocracy , but it was open to receive recruits from the ranks below it . Any Ceorl ...
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Abbot aforesaid ancestors ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Archbishop bailiffs barons Bill bishops boroughs burgesses cause Celts century Ceorls Chapter of John's chief civil classes clause Conquest consent constitutional Council county court court leet criminal Crown customs declared Earl Edward elected enacted England exercised feudal freeholders freemen Germanic granted Guizot Habeas Corpus Hallam heirs Henry Henry II House of Commons important imprisoned institutions island John John's Charter judges jurors justice king king's kingdom knights land Langton liberties Lord Coke Lords spiritual Magna Carta Majesty ment military ministers Norman Normandy oath observe officers parlia parliament parliamentary party peace peers person Petition of Right political population possessed present prince principle realm reign respect RISE AND PROGRESS Roman royal Saxon sheriffs shire sovereign spirit statute summoned supra tenants tenure term Thanes tion towns trial by jury villein villeinage William Witan words writ
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Page 200 - John, the variations not being very material) shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or. any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon 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 delay to any man justice or right.
Page 291 - Temporal, and divers principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs, and Cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster...
Page 292 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 290 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.
Page 289 - An act declaring the rights and liberties of the subject. and settling the succession of the crown.
Page 301 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, — except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page 274 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 294 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm:...
Page 278 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence. tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to give attendance, or be confined, or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same, or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained...
Page 160 - ... part of them, together with the aforesaid Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and others whom he...