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... appears to have possessed any distinctive character . V. From the Accession of Clovis II . , Son of Dagobert , to Pepin Heristal's Victory over the Neustrians at Testry ( A.D. 638-687 ) . After Dagobert the kings of France dwindled into ...
... appears to have possessed any distinctive character . V. From the Accession of Clovis II . , Son of Dagobert , to Pepin Heristal's Victory over the Neustrians at Testry ( A.D. 638-687 ) . After Dagobert the kings of France dwindled into ...
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... appears no more in history . But not long afterwards the Lombards , a people for some time settled in Pannonia , not only subdued that northern part of Italy which has retained their name , but , extending themselves southward , formed ...
... appears no more in history . But not long afterwards the Lombards , a people for some time settled in Pannonia , not only subdued that northern part of Italy which has retained their name , but , extending themselves southward , formed ...
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... appears , it proved no impolitic step . Rollo , the Norman chief , with all his subjects , became Christians and Frenchmen ; and the kingdom was at once relieved from a terrible enemy , and strengthened by a race of hardy colo- nists ...
... appears , it proved no impolitic step . Rollo , the Norman chief , with all his subjects , became Christians and Frenchmen ; and the kingdom was at once relieved from a terrible enemy , and strengthened by a race of hardy colo- nists ...
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... appears to me that he had left much untouched . " It seems that the archi- tectural evidence is the most positive , and can only be re- sisted by disproving its existence , or its connection with the Freemasons and Templars . 21 $ 24 ...
... appears to me that he had left much untouched . " It seems that the archi- tectural evidence is the most positive , and can only be re- sisted by disproving its existence , or its connection with the Freemasons and Templars . 21 $ 24 ...
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... appears that a funeral solemnity , in commemoration of so great a calamity , was observed in Spain for four or five cen- turies afterwards . ( Fauriel , iii . 79. ) But in its consequences it was far less impor- The Mayor of the Palace ...
... appears that a funeral solemnity , in commemoration of so great a calamity , was observed in Spain for four or five cen- turies afterwards . ( Fauriel , iii . 79. ) But in its consequences it was far less impor- The Mayor of the Palace ...
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Page 443 - Moreover, we have granted for us and our heirs, as well to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, and other folk of holy Church, as also to earls, barons, and to all the commonalty of the land, that for no business from henceforth...
Page 518 - As the head of a body natural cannot change its nerves and sinews, cannot deny to the several parts their proper energy, their due proportion and aliment of blood; neither can a king, who is the head of a body politic, change the laws thereof, nor take from the people what is theirs, by right, against their consent.
Page 456 - But in the very second year of the son's reign they granted the twenty-fifth penny of their goods, '• upon this condition, that the king should take advice and grant redress upon certain articles wherein they are aggrieved.
Page 424 - Whether courts of justice framed the writ of Habeas Corpus in conformity to the spirit of this clause, or found it already in their register, it became from that era the right of every subject to demand it.
Page 418 - From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it. Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor; that is, for perversion of justice, or for delay. Sometimes they were paid by opposite parties, and, of course, for opposite ends.