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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... charge of either pre- sumption or rashness . For the task of an historian , Mr. Hume was in many respects most eminently qualified ; but , having embarked in his undertaking with a predisposition unfavourable to a calm inquiry after ...
... charge of either pre- sumption or rashness . For the task of an historian , Mr. Hume was in many respects most eminently qualified ; but , having embarked in his undertaking with a predisposition unfavourable to a calm inquiry after ...
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... charged , having in every ample for the future , appointing pe- culiar treasurers of their own to give account upon oath to the next par- liament . And such grants , while they professed to proceed ex liberà et spontaneâ voluntate ...
... charged , having in every ample for the future , appointing pe- culiar treasurers of their own to give account upon oath to the next par- liament . And such grants , while they professed to proceed ex liberà et spontaneâ voluntate ...
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... charge of crime , had the benefit of a trial by a jury of their peers ; in France , confession was extorted by the rack , a custom , ' remarks the author , ' which is not to be accounted law , but rather the high road to the devil ...
... charge of crime , had the benefit of a trial by a jury of their peers ; in France , confession was extorted by the rack , a custom , ' remarks the author , ' which is not to be accounted law , but rather the high road to the devil ...
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... charged him with sedition . He says ( p . 32 ) , that where there had been a great many householders and inhabitantes , there is now but a sheapheard and his dog ' - he charges the aristocracy with intending to make the yeomandry ...
... charged him with sedition . He says ( p . 32 ) , that where there had been a great many householders and inhabitantes , there is now but a sheapheard and his dog ' - he charges the aristocracy with intending to make the yeomandry ...
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... charges thereby more than they could bear . Oftentimes they went home with tears , after having waited long at the court , their causes unheard . And they had a common saying then , " Money is heard everywhere . " The author gives some ...
... charges thereby more than they could bear . Oftentimes they went home with tears , after having waited long at the court , their causes unheard . And they had a common saying then , " Money is heard everywhere . " The author gives some ...
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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...