An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII to the Present TimeLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 320 Seiten |
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... matters of great state importance were made subjects of deliberation in the King's high court of Parlia- ment , which was called together expressly for that purpose . In case of war , it was the business of that assembly to consider of ...
... matters of great state importance were made subjects of deliberation in the King's high court of Parlia- ment , which was called together expressly for that purpose . In case of war , it was the business of that assembly to consider of ...
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... matter , to give his grace a sufficient answer . Where- upon the cardinal , displeased with the Speaker , suddenly rose up in a rage and departed . " The result was , that a subsidy was granted , but much less than the cardinal had ...
... matter , to give his grace a sufficient answer . Where- upon the cardinal , displeased with the Speaker , suddenly rose up in a rage and departed . " The result was , that a subsidy was granted , but much less than the cardinal had ...
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... matter to squeeze money from his subjects . With the sum to be derived from the sale of the monasteries , he proposed to make harbours all round the coast of England . Those of the nobility who had adopted the opinions of the reformers ...
... matter to squeeze money from his subjects . With the sum to be derived from the sale of the monasteries , he proposed to make harbours all round the coast of England . Those of the nobility who had adopted the opinions of the reformers ...
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... matter to revive the ancient worship . Nor did she hesitate to call frequent new parliaments , and each went beyond the former in the road of reconciliation . The first refused to re - establish the law of the six articles , but only ...
... matter to revive the ancient worship . Nor did she hesitate to call frequent new parliaments , and each went beyond the former in the road of reconciliation . The first refused to re - establish the law of the six articles , but only ...
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... matters . * She dispensed with those laws which were unpalatable to her ,. and regulated the behaviour of her people by ordinance and arbitrary mandate . She forbade the cultivation of woad , as offensive to her royal nostrils . The ...
... matters . * She dispensed with those laws which were unpalatable to her ,. and regulated the behaviour of her people by ordinance and arbitrary mandate . She forbade the cultivation of woad , as offensive to her royal nostrils . The ...
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Seite 99 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 233 - All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Seite 87 - And whereas the Laws of England are the birthright of the people thereof, and all the Kings and Queens, who shall ascend the Throne of this realm, ought to administer the Government of the same according to the said laws, and all their officers and ministers ought to serve them respectively according to the same...
Seite 51 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Seite 292 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Seite 130 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Seite 200 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is : and most even of those excellences which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
Seite 292 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your...
Seite 305 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Seite 110 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...