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... ESPECIALLY IN FRANCE : PART I. PART II . NOTES TO CHAPTER II . I. The Salic and other Laws of the Barbarians .. II . Tributarii , Lidi , and Coloni .... III . Municipal Government .... III . THE HISTORY OF ITALY , FROM THE EXTINCTION OF ...
... ESPECIALLY IN FRANCE : PART I. PART II . NOTES TO CHAPTER II . I. The Salic and other Laws of the Barbarians .. II . Tributarii , Lidi , and Coloni .... III . Municipal Government .... III . THE HISTORY OF ITALY , FROM THE EXTINCTION OF ...
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... especially the last , it is easy to perceive one more radical than all the three - the inadequacy of their means of self - defense . The kingdom of Jerusalem was guarded only , exclusive of European volunteers , by the feud- al service ...
... especially the last , it is easy to perceive one more radical than all the three - the inadequacy of their means of self - defense . The kingdom of Jerusalem was guarded only , exclusive of European volunteers , by the feud- al service ...
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... especially with those denominated Ophites , or worshippers of the serpent ; and to prove also that the ex- treme impurity which forms one of the revolting and hardly credible charges adduced by Philip IV . is similar in all its details ...
... especially with those denominated Ophites , or worshippers of the serpent ; and to prove also that the ex- treme impurity which forms one of the revolting and hardly credible charges adduced by Philip IV . is similar in all its details ...
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... especially after Du Guesclin came on the stage , these had rivals almost equally deserving of renown . If we could forget , what never should be forgotten , the wretchedness and devastation that fell upon a great kingdom , too dear a ...
... especially after Du Guesclin came on the stage , these had rivals almost equally deserving of renown . If we could forget , what never should be forgotten , the wretchedness and devastation that fell upon a great kingdom , too dear a ...
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... especially the famous Marcel , it is clear that many of their reformations tended to liberty and the public good . ' But the tumultu- ous scenes which passed in the capital , sometimes heighten- ed into civil war , necessarily ...
... especially the famous Marcel , it is clear that many of their reformations tended to liberty and the public good . ' But the tumultu- ous scenes which passed in the capital , sometimes heighten- ed into civil war , necessarily ...
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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.