The Dictionary of English HistorySir Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling Cassell, 1897 - 1128 pàgines |
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Pàgina 6 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Pàgina ii - If any of our earls, or barons, or others, who hold of us in chief by military service, shall die, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age, and...
Pàgina 256 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Pàgina 239 - I am one of those who have probably passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it [cheers].
Pàgina 394 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Pàgina 363 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Pàgina v - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Pàgina 248 - ... know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Pàgina 347 - Common pleas shall not follow our court but shall be held in a certain fixed place. 18. Assizes of novel disseisin, of mort d'ancestor, and of darrein presentment...
Pàgina 446 - And afterwards, when the nation had been accustomed to it for a series of years, the succeeding champions of liberty boldly and openly declared, " the impost " of excise to be the most easy and indifferent levy that could "be laid upon the people":" and accordingly continued it during the whole usurpation.