The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 13Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1823 - Europe |
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... tion , for the greatness of its changes , with the one which has passed over our heads . That one - the age of Charles V. , marked by the downfal of feudal power - the Reformation , and the discovery of both Indies , scarcely produced ...
... tion , for the greatness of its changes , with the one which has passed over our heads . That one - the age of Charles V. , marked by the downfal of feudal power - the Reformation , and the discovery of both Indies , scarcely produced ...
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... tion had been to support the rights of birth and hereditary succession ; and the established government had been under no danger , unless from the re- storation of a dynasty invested with absolute power . Under George III . this ...
... tion had been to support the rights of birth and hereditary succession ; and the established government had been under no danger , unless from the re- storation of a dynasty invested with absolute power . Under George III . this ...
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... tion - in the diffusion of its elements among that humbler and more nume- rous class , who were formerly suppo- sed to be shut out entirely from the pale of intellectual existence - desti- ned to be the mere hewers of wood and drawers ...
... tion - in the diffusion of its elements among that humbler and more nume- rous class , who were formerly suppo- sed to be shut out entirely from the pale of intellectual existence - desti- ned to be the mere hewers of wood and drawers ...
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... tion . The only question would then be what were the measures of such pressing necessity as to fall under the immediate cognizance of Parlia- ment ? He knew that it had been usual in practice to vote a great por- tion of the civil ...
... tion . The only question would then be what were the measures of such pressing necessity as to fall under the immediate cognizance of Parlia- ment ? He knew that it had been usual in practice to vote a great por- tion of the civil ...
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... tion of members did or did not take place in these boroughs , as exactly in its present state , and that Parliament , under these circumstances , might still exercise the same plenitude of power as it now could with respect to them ...
... tion of members did or did not take place in these boroughs , as exactly in its present state , and that Parliament , under these circumstances , might still exercise the same plenitude of power as it now could with respect to them ...
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