The Moderate Monarchy, Or Principles of the British Constitution, Described in a Narrative of the Life and Maxims of Alfred the Great and His Counsellors. From the German of Albert V. HallerLongman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1849 - 344 Seiten |
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... House- hold , 232. - 51 . Vide Note 24 , 233. - 52 . Alfred's skill in Jewellery , and description of his Gem , ib . - 53 . Political Levers of Rulers , 235. - 54 . Universal Genius and Manual Occupations of Princes , ib . - 55 ...
... House- hold , 232. - 51 . Vide Note 24 , 233. - 52 . Alfred's skill in Jewellery , and description of his Gem , ib . - 53 . Political Levers of Rulers , 235. - 54 . Universal Genius and Manual Occupations of Princes , ib . - 55 ...
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... House of Commons , 323. - 145 . Burden shaken from one to another , 324. - 146 . Revenue of the Church , 325. - 147 . Subjection of all Ranks to Taxes , ib . - 148 . Proportion of Taxes , ib.— 66 149. Illusive Freedom , 326. - 150 ...
... House of Commons , 323. - 145 . Burden shaken from one to another , 324. - 146 . Revenue of the Church , 325. - 147 . Subjection of all Ranks to Taxes , ib . - 148 . Proportion of Taxes , ib.— 66 149. Illusive Freedom , 326. - 150 ...
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... house by that of the other ; and how these strong and multifarious bonds of liberty may give to all classes of the people a lofty elevation of character ; all these great and splendid problems find their solution in the history of the ...
... house by that of the other ; and how these strong and multifarious bonds of liberty may give to all classes of the people a lofty elevation of character ; all these great and splendid problems find their solution in the history of the ...
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... house of God was founded at Shaftesbury , intended as a retreat for the daughters of his nobility ; and a burial place , for himself and his successors , was erected at Winchester , in another convent.47 He gifted the bishopric of ...
... house of God was founded at Shaftesbury , intended as a retreat for the daughters of his nobility ; and a burial place , for himself and his successors , was erected at Winchester , in another convent.47 He gifted the bishopric of ...
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... house on the wisest principles . His servants consisted of three divisions , each of which served four months in the year , and were at liberty the remaining eight.50 His virtue was not accompanied by a severe exterior , nor was he ...
... house on the wisest principles . His servants consisted of three divisions , each of which served four months in the year , and were at liberty the remaining eight.50 His virtue was not accompanied by a severe exterior , nor was he ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 279 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 280 - Have they never heard of a monarchy directed by laws, controlled and balanced by the great hereditary wealth and hereditary dignity of a nation, and both again controlled by a judicious check from the reason and feeling of the people at large, acting by a suitable and permanent organ?
Seite 311 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Seite 286 - ... Though the legislative, whether placed in one or more, whether it be always in being, or only by intervals, though it be the supreme power in every commonwealth; yet first, it is not, nor can possibly be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person, or assembly, which is legislator; it can be no more than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered into society, and gave up...
Seite 341 - Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it. Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them when they come into the world, and for some time after, but it is but a temporary one.
Seite 287 - Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to' the public good of the society. It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never * have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.
Seite 287 - Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges.
Seite 341 - Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property without the assignation or consent of anybody. 'The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
Seite 292 - When a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay, and those of his opinion, would do well to tell us.