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... principle , however , which regulated this division was learned from Charlemagne , and could alone , if strictly pursued , have given unity and permanence to the empire . The elder brother was to preserve his superiority over the others ...
... principle , however , which regulated this division was learned from Charlemagne , and could alone , if strictly pursued , have given unity and permanence to the empire . The elder brother was to preserve his superiority over the others ...
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... principle of the Crusades . Every means was used to excite an epidemical frenzy ; the remission of penance , the dispensation from those practices of self - denial which superstition imposed or suspended at pleasure , the absolution of ...
... principle of the Crusades . Every means was used to excite an epidemical frenzy ; the remission of penance , the dispensation from those practices of self - denial which superstition imposed or suspended at pleasure , the absolution of ...
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... principle in France . The advantages of such an enactment are great and obvious . It secured the con- solidation of the royal authority in the hands of a line of native princes ; it tended to exclude foreign influence from the highest ...
... principle in France . The advantages of such an enactment are great and obvious . It secured the con- solidation of the royal authority in the hands of a line of native princes ; it tended to exclude foreign influence from the highest ...
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... principle at that time as has been contend- ed . But however this may be , it received at the accession of Philip the Long a sanction which subsequent events more thoroughly confirmed . Philip himself leaving only three daughters , his ...
... principle at that time as has been contend- ed . But however this may be , it received at the accession of Philip the Long a sanction which subsequent events more thoroughly confirmed . Philip himself leaving only three daughters , his ...
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... principle that no resolution could be passed as the opinion of the whole unless each of the three . orders concurred in its adoption . The right of levying and of regulating the collection of taxes was recognized . But that assembly ...
... principle that no resolution could be passed as the opinion of the whole unless each of the three . orders concurred in its adoption . The right of levying and of regulating the collection of taxes was recognized . But that assembly ...
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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.