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Pagina xxxiii - as examples the following propositions :—that an hereditary prince, a nobility without vassals, and a people voting by their representatives, form respectively the best monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy ; and that, though free governments have been commonly the most happy for those, who partake of their freedom, yet are they the most oppressive and ruinous to
Pagina 342 - The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.' Doctor Johnson appears to have been
Pagina xlviii - that, without the rivalship of nations, and the practice of war, civil society itself could scarcely have found an object, or a form; and that we should expect in vain to give to the multitude of a people a sense of union among themselves, if we were not assisted by the operation of foreign hostility. War, however it may shock the feelings of
Pagina 394 - did not contain any establishment of new courts, magistrates, or senates, nor any abolition of the old ; it introduced no new distribution of the powers of the commonwealth, and no innovation in the political or public law of the kingdom. The time
Pagina 409 - and so successfully did he assume and maintain the appearance of devotion, that, though he had been excommunicated by the pope, he was after his death believed to be a saint, and many miracles were said to be wrought at his tomb. But this was a part of his domestic strength, and he also had, like the king, a foreign ally.
Pagina 356 - the time of Chaucer, though the form of our language was still Saxon, the matter was in a great measure French; and Mr. Ellis has declared his opinion, that both these statements are
Pagina 221 - so much disturbed by the inroads of the Hungarians, that the Germans applied to their country the expression, of the sacred writings", ' woe to thee, O land, when thy ' king is a child.' The interior of Germany was at the
Pagina 322 - take the plough into their own hands, would scarcely appear credible, even if a similar conduct had been attributed, on the best historical evidence, to the Franks and other barbarous conquerors, because the necessity of obtaining recruits by sea was a peculiar obstacle to Saxon population. ' Indeed,
Pagina 320 - stated by Mr. Ellis, that the west-riding of Yorkshire was not completely subdued until the year 620, so that more than two centuries of bloody warfare had elapsed, before the invaders were able to break the communication between the Britons of Wales and those of Cumberland and Strathcluyd.
Pagina 371 - money. This tax was at first levied by the royal authority; but, on account of the abuses of the practice, it was declared by the great charter, that scutages should be imposed only by the common council of the kingdom. Blackstone observes, that it became the parent of the ancient subsidies granted to the crown by parliament, and of the land-tax of later