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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... his land , on condition of perform- ing certain fixed services ; the villein also held land , but was bound to perform services , base in their nature , and often undefined in their B 3 ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION . 5.
... his land , on condition of perform- ing certain fixed services ; the villein also held land , but was bound to perform services , base in their nature , and often undefined in their B 3 ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION . 5.
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... nature , and often undefined in their extent . Here was real servitude . How soon it began to be abrogated we know not , but we are told by Sir Thomas Smith , who was secre- tary to Edward VI . and Queen Elizabeth , that in all his time ...
... nature , and often undefined in their extent . Here was real servitude . How soon it began to be abrogated we know not , but we are told by Sir Thomas Smith , who was secre- tary to Edward VI . and Queen Elizabeth , that in all his time ...
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... nature conferred feelings and capacities with impartial justice upon all . Inti- mately connected with this spirit , is the absence of any distinction between gentleman and rotu- rier . " The law , " says Mr. Hallam , " has never taken ...
... nature conferred feelings and capacities with impartial justice upon all . Inti- mately connected with this spirit , is the absence of any distinction between gentleman and rotu- rier . " The law , " says Mr. Hallam , " has never taken ...
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... Nature of our own Representation generally . It has been observed to me , that in the ancient commonwealths , the people , who decided on public affairs , were all of a higher order than those of the poorer class , who in England read ...
... Nature of our own Representation generally . It has been observed to me , that in the ancient commonwealths , the people , who decided on public affairs , were all of a higher order than those of the poorer class , who in England read ...
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... been hardly ripe for so great a revolution . In- surrections of a serious nature took place in Devonshire , Norfolk , and elsewhere . The preaching of the Roman Catholic priesthood produced so strong an D 2 THE REFORMATION . 35.
... been hardly ripe for so great a revolution . In- surrections of a serious nature took place in Devonshire , Norfolk , and elsewhere . The preaching of the Roman Catholic priesthood produced so strong an D 2 THE REFORMATION . 35.
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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...