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Page 42
... France and Spain . All their dis- putes , internal and external , were decided by foreign influence . The contests of oppo- site factions were carried on , not as formerly in the senate - house or in the market - place , but in the ...
... France and Spain . All their dis- putes , internal and external , were decided by foreign influence . The contests of oppo- site factions were carried on , not as formerly in the senate - house or in the market - place , but in the ...
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... France , the sovereign was more absolute . Yet , even in France , the States - General alone could constitutionally impose taxes ; and , at the very time when the authority of those assemblies was beginning to languish , the Parliament ...
... France , the sovereign was more absolute . Yet , even in France , the States - General alone could constitutionally impose taxes ; and , at the very time when the authority of those assemblies was beginning to languish , the Parliament ...
Page 81
... France set themselves to destroy . In England , the principles of the common law had never been disturbed , and most even of its forms had been held sacred . In France , the law and its ministers had been swept away together . In France ...
... France set themselves to destroy . In England , the principles of the common law had never been disturbed , and most even of its forms had been held sacred . In France , the law and its ministers had been swept away together . In France ...
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... France since the Revolu- tion affords some striking illustrations of these remarks . The same man was a ser- vant of the Republic , of Bonaparte , of Lewis the Eighteenth , of Bonaparte again after his return from Elba , of Lewis again ...
... France since the Revolu- tion affords some striking illustrations of these remarks . The same man was a ser- vant of the Republic , of Bonaparte , of Lewis the Eighteenth , of Bonaparte again after his return from Elba , of Lewis again ...
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... France , and his high station in the Government , served to strengthen , would , a hundred years earlier , have secured to him the favour of his sovereign without rendering him odious to the people . His probity , his correctness in ...
... France , and his high station in the Government , served to strengthen , would , a hundred years earlier , have secured to him the favour of his sovereign without rendering him odious to the people . His probity , his correctness in ...
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