A Constitutional History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration: with an Introd., Tracing the Progress of Society and of the Constitution from the Feudal Times to the Opening of the History, and Including a Particular Examination of Mr. Hume's Statements Relative to the Character of the English Government, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1866 - Constitutional history |
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... ENGLISH GOVERNMENT . BY GEORGE BRODIE , ESQ . HISTORIOGRAPHER - ROYAL OF SCOTLAND , NEW EDITION . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 226. i . 46 . BL HOTHE PREFACE ΤΟ THE NEW EDITION . Ir is 1866 .
... ENGLISH GOVERNMENT . BY GEORGE BRODIE , ESQ . HISTORIOGRAPHER - ROYAL OF SCOTLAND , NEW EDITION . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. LONDON : LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 226. i . 46 . BL HOTHE PREFACE ΤΟ THE NEW EDITION . Ir is 1866 .
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... ENGLISH CONSTITUTION , AND PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN ENGLAND , FROM THE FEUDAL TIMES TILL THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH . PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . CONTAINING A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND USAGES UNDER THE TUDORS AND ...
... ENGLISH CONSTITUTION , AND PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN ENGLAND , FROM THE FEUDAL TIMES TILL THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH . PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . CONTAINING A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND USAGES UNDER THE TUDORS AND ...
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... ENGLISH CONSTITUTION , AND PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN ENGLAND , FROM THE FEUDAL TIMES TILL THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH . I. THOUGH the fundamental principles of the English Con- CHAP . stitution were laid at a very early period ...
... ENGLISH CONSTITUTION , AND PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN ENGLAND , FROM THE FEUDAL TIMES TILL THE CLOSE OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH . I. THOUGH the fundamental principles of the English Con- CHAP . stitution were laid at a very early period ...
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... English government , that the aristocracy were brought under subjection to the laws , and no longer , as in ancient times , in a condition to tyrannise over the rest of the community . + It is impossible , owing to the scantiness of ...
... English government , that the aristocracy were brought under subjection to the laws , and no longer , as in ancient times , in a condition to tyrannise over the rest of the community . + It is impossible , owing to the scantiness of ...
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... English liberty in former times ! He incul- cates the notion that the English enjoyed no more freedom than the inhabitants of France and other continental states ; and that they were not themselves sensible of any superior privileges ...
... English liberty in former times ! He incul- cates the notion that the English enjoyed no more freedom than the inhabitants of France and other continental states ; and that they were not themselves sensible of any superior privileges ...
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Page 143 - ... general councils, or any of them ; or by any other general council, wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of canonical scripture, or such as shall hereafter be declared to be heresy by the high court of parliament, with the assent of the clergy in convocation.
Page 344 - The duke was indeed a very extraordinary person; and never any man, in any age, nor, I believe, in any country or nation, rose, in so short a time, to so much greatness of honour, fame and fortune, upon no other advantage or recommendation than of the beauty and gracefulness and becomingness of his person.
Page 121 - , it is enacted that no man shall be attached by any accusation nor forejudged of life or limb, nor his lands, tenements, goods nor chattels seized into the King's hands against the form of the Great Charter and the law of the land...