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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... practice of the contend- ing parties , particularly of that monarch , till his victory over Warwick at Barnet , where there was an indiscri- minate slaughter , was to call out to spare the soldiers , but to slay the nobles and gentry ...
... practice of the contend- ing parties , particularly of that monarch , till his victory over Warwick at Barnet , where there was an indiscri- minate slaughter , was to call out to spare the soldiers , but to slay the nobles and gentry ...
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... practice of retaining the natural posses- sion of the soil . * Entails , too , being now rendered nugatory , great transferences of property took place ; and the purchasers , feeling none of the sympathies that might be supposed to ...
... practice of retaining the natural posses- sion of the soil . * Entails , too , being now rendered nugatory , great transferences of property took place ; and the purchasers , feeling none of the sympathies that might be supposed to ...
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... practices - such as purgatory , the real pre- sence in the eucharist , the tutelar protection of saints , the adoration of images , auricular confesson , pilgrimages , the effect of baptism , celibacy of the clergy , & c . - which ...
... practices - such as purgatory , the real pre- sence in the eucharist , the tutelar protection of saints , the adoration of images , auricular confesson , pilgrimages , the effect of baptism , celibacy of the clergy , & c . - which ...
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... practice for parliament to resume the royal grants ( see Prynne's preface to Cot- ton's Abridgment of the Records , where he gives many instances of it , and refers correctly to many authori- ties ) ; but when the Commons were grasping ...
... practice for parliament to resume the royal grants ( see Prynne's preface to Cot- ton's Abridgment of the Records , where he gives many instances of it , and refers correctly to many authori- ties ) ; but when the Commons were grasping ...
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... practice of great men having the sons of good , nay , of the highest families as ser- vants , was quite common . Mr. Galt , in his Life of Wolsey , p . 160 , has fully shown the error of Mr. Hume on this subject . For an account of ...
... practice of great men having the sons of good , nay , of the highest families as ser- vants , was quite common . Mr. Galt , in his Life of Wolsey , p . 160 , has fully shown the error of Mr. Hume on this subject . For an account of ...
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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...