The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... present work will be far less voluminous . But it will neither follow the arrangement of " The Pictorial , " nor use its materials , except as they are common to all histories . iv INTRODUCTION . then , however powerful may be authority B ...
... present work will be far less voluminous . But it will neither follow the arrangement of " The Pictorial , " nor use its materials , except as they are common to all histories . iv INTRODUCTION . then , however powerful may be authority B ...
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... authority and arms however triumphant , there is " something rotten in the State . " Properly to trace this essential connection between Government and People , we must look at history from a new point of view . We must put the People ...
... authority and arms however triumphant , there is " something rotten in the State . " Properly to trace this essential connection between Government and People , we must look at history from a new point of view . We must put the People ...
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... authorities are built upon the notable foundation Hearsay ; having much ado to accord differing writers , and to pick truth out of partiality . " This is the especial labour of him who attempts to write a popular compendium of the ...
... authorities are built upon the notable foundation Hearsay ; having much ado to accord differing writers , and to pick truth out of partiality . " This is the especial labour of him who attempts to write a popular compendium of the ...
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... political constitution . To the Roman we may distinctly trace our municipal institutions , in obedience to , or in connection with , a central authority , which rode supreme over the INTRODUCTION vii rights of individuals . To the Saxon we.
... political constitution . To the Roman we may distinctly trace our municipal institutions , in obedience to , or in connection with , a central authority , which rode supreme over the INTRODUCTION vii rights of individuals . To the Saxon we.
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... authority and military command , there was probably a species of clanship , in which there was servitude on one hand , and protection on the other . Diodorus Siculus , a contemporary of Cæsar , says that the Britons , whom he describes ...
... authority and military command , there was probably a species of clanship , in which there was servitude on one hand , and protection on the other . Diodorus Siculus , a contemporary of Cæsar , says that the Britons , whom he describes ...
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