Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 1H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Feudal System . Montesquieu ( but more particularly Mably , Robertson , Millar , and Stuart's View of Society ) . 7th . Chivalry . St. Palaye ( his work to be found in the 20th volume of Mémoires de l'Académie ) . 8th . Popes and ...
... Feudal System . Montesquieu ( but more particularly Mably , Robertson , Millar , and Stuart's View of Society ) . 7th . Chivalry . St. Palaye ( his work to be found in the 20th volume of Mémoires de l'Académie ) . 8th . Popes and ...
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... Feudal System had its origin - the sixth . Chivalry is the seventh . In the German history , the great objects of attention are the struggles between the popes and the emperors - the eighth . The rise and prosperity of the free and ...
... Feudal System had its origin - the sixth . Chivalry is the seventh . In the German history , the great objects of attention are the struggles between the popes and the emperors - the eighth . The rise and prosperity of the free and ...
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... Feudal System , is one on which the student may exhaust his time and exercise his diligence to any extent he pleases : it has employed the penetration and industry of innumerable antiquarians , philo- sophers , and lawyers , in whose ...
... Feudal System , is one on which the student may exhaust his time and exercise his diligence to any extent he pleases : it has employed the penetration and industry of innumerable antiquarians , philo- sophers , and lawyers , in whose ...
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... feudal system , which is generally formed , is not accurate . It does not seem to have been , as is supposed , a system adopted by the northern nations merely for the sake of pre- serving their conquests ; even Dr. Robertson himself ...
... feudal system , which is generally formed , is not accurate . It does not seem to have been , as is supposed , a system adopted by the northern nations merely for the sake of pre- serving their conquests ; even Dr. Robertson himself ...
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... system ; how the fief be- came at last hereditary ; how the system of rear fief and rear vassal , of fief within ... feudal property ; how kingdoms fell into a few great fiefs , of which the monarch himself became at last the great holder , ...
... system ; how the fief be- came at last hereditary ; how the system of rear fief and rear vassal , of fief within ... feudal property ; how kingdoms fell into a few great fiefs , of which the monarch himself became at last the great holder , ...
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Seite 11 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously (carefully), and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 386 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Seite 211 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 341 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Seite 32 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.
Seite 267 - These reasons did rather silence than satisfy the young King, who still thought it a hard thing (as in truth it was) to proceed so severely in such cases : so he set his hand to the warrant, with tears in his eyes, saying to Cranmer, That if he did wrong, since it was in submission to his authority, he should answer for it to God.
Seite 179 - It must be confessed that the former articles of the Great Charter contain such mitigations and explanations of the feudal law as are reasonable and equitable; and that the latter involve all the chief outlines of a legal government, and provide for the equal distribution of justice and free enjoyment of property; the great objects for which political society was at first founded by men, which the people have a perpetual and unalienable right to recall, and which no time, nor precedent, nor statute,...
Seite 497 - HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English, from the Roman Invasion to the Accession of Henry II.
Seite 378 - Let the king, therefore, attribute that the law attributeth unto him, that is, dominion and power; for he is not a king in whom will and not the law doth rule; and therefore he ought to be under the law.