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... perhaps Suabia , which were governed by their own dependent , but hereditary , chiefs . Thierry , the eldest , had what was called Austrasia , the east- ern or German division , and fixed his capital at Metz ; Clodo- mir , at Orleans ...
... perhaps Suabia , which were governed by their own dependent , but hereditary , chiefs . Thierry , the eldest , had what was called Austrasia , the east- ern or German division , and fixed his capital at Metz ; Clodo- mir , at Orleans ...
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... perhaps the most eminent pattern of unswerving probity and Christian strictness of conscience that ever held the seep- tre in any country . There is a peculiar beauty in the reign of St. Louis , because it shows the inestimable benefit ...
... perhaps the most eminent pattern of unswerving probity and Christian strictness of conscience that ever held the seep- tre in any country . There is a peculiar beauty in the reign of St. Louis , because it shows the inestimable benefit ...
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... perhaps fortunate for the display of St. Louis's vir- tues that the throne had already been strengthened by the less innocent exertions of Philip Augustus and Louis VIII . A century earlier his mild and scrupulous character , unsus ...
... perhaps fortunate for the display of St. Louis's vir- tues that the throne had already been strengthened by the less innocent exertions of Philip Augustus and Louis VIII . A century earlier his mild and scrupulous character , unsus ...
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... perhaps have been won by a prudent government ; but the temper of the Prince of Wales , which was rather stern and arbitrary , did not con- ciliate their hearts to his cause . After the expedition into Castile , a most injudicious and ...
... perhaps have been won by a prudent government ; but the temper of the Prince of Wales , which was rather stern and arbitrary , did not con- ciliate their hearts to his cause . After the expedition into Castile , a most injudicious and ...
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... perhaps in Italy ; the princes of Europe had contended with each other by arms , sometimes by treachery , but never with such complicated subtlety of intrigue . Of that insidious cunning , which has since been brought to per- fection ...
... perhaps in Italy ; the princes of Europe had contended with each other by arms , sometimes by treachery , but never with such complicated subtlety of intrigue . Of that insidious cunning , which has since been brought to per- fection ...
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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.