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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... desire of security for their persons and property - it is strange , indeed , that certain writers should have inferred from it that the people had imbibed the principles of passive obedience . Attached as they were to monarchy , they ...
... desire of security for their persons and property - it is strange , indeed , that certain writers should have inferred from it that the people had imbibed the principles of passive obedience . Attached as they were to monarchy , they ...
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... desire of distinction by indulging in expensive habits of luxury . The king's conduct , in another respect , must have contributed to these habits , while it straitened many in the means . Under the colour of the penal laws , he wrung ...
... desire of distinction by indulging in expensive habits of luxury . The king's conduct , in another respect , must have contributed to these habits , while it straitened many in the means . Under the colour of the penal laws , he wrung ...
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... desire that my in- In dictment may be entered on no record , nor divulged to foreign nations , lest , if they hear , in my condemnation , all that may argue a final dissolution in government , they invade and over- come you ' ( Herbert ...
... desire that my in- In dictment may be entered on no record , nor divulged to foreign nations , lest , if they hear , in my condemnation , all that may argue a final dissolution in government , they invade and over- come you ' ( Herbert ...
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... desire the support of numerous allies , that they might be enabled to withstand the influence of that body and buoy up their own class ; and they would retain the attachment of the lower ranks by procuring laws bene- ficial to them ...
... desire the support of numerous allies , that they might be enabled to withstand the influence of that body and buoy up their own class ; and they would retain the attachment of the lower ranks by procuring laws bene- ficial to them ...
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... desire measures which , however innocuous they might appear at the time , formed precedents dangerous to public liberty : for man- kind seldom reflect upon the problematical consequences of measures which liberate them from present ...
... desire measures which , however innocuous they might appear at the time , formed precedents dangerous to public liberty : for man- kind seldom reflect upon the problematical consequences of measures which liberate them from present ...
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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...