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... effect it . The proud nationality which spurned 13 Sismondi , " Hist . des Français , " iii . , 218 , 378 ; iv . , 9 . a foreign line of princes could not be felt by 20 CALAMITOUS STATE OF THE EMPIRE . CHAP . I. PART I.
... effect it . The proud nationality which spurned 13 Sismondi , " Hist . des Français , " iii . , 218 , 378 ; iv . , 9 . a foreign line of princes could not be felt by 20 CALAMITOUS STATE OF THE EMPIRE . CHAP . I. PART I.
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... effect of introducing this name from a more an- cient geography , but it saves a circumlocution still more awkward . Austria would convey an imperfect idea , and the Austrian dominions could not be named without a tremendous anachronism ...
... effect of introducing this name from a more an- cient geography , but it saves a circumlocution still more awkward . Austria would convey an imperfect idea , and the Austrian dominions could not be named without a tremendous anachronism ...
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... effect of restoring the royal authority over France . His own very extensive fief was now , indeed , united to the crown ; but a few great vassals occupied the remainder of the kingdom . Six of these obtained , at a subsequent time ...
... effect of restoring the royal authority over France . His own very extensive fief was now , indeed , united to the crown ; but a few great vassals occupied the remainder of the kingdom . Six of these obtained , at a subsequent time ...
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... effects of his virtues , was superstition . No man was ever more impressed than St. Louis with a belief in the duty of exterminating all enemies to his own faith . With these he thought no layman ought to risk himself in the perilous ...
... effects of his virtues , was superstition . No man was ever more impressed than St. Louis with a belief in the duty of exterminating all enemies to his own faith . With these he thought no layman ought to risk himself in the perilous ...
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... effect ; and those feats of romantic prowess which made the name of Richard so famous both in Europe and Asia proved only the total inefficacy of all exertions in an attempt so im- practicable ; Palestine was never the scene of another ...
... effect ; and those feats of romantic prowess which made the name of Richard so famous both in Europe and Asia proved only the total inefficacy of all exertions in an attempt so im- practicable ; Palestine was never the scene of another ...
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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.