The British Quarterly Review, Volume 18Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1853 |
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... fact that an hereditary and arbitrary monarch might sometimes be personally a weak or a wicked ruler , presented much less difficulty in their view than was seen in the circumstances which seemed to ensure that the prince should always ...
... fact that an hereditary and arbitrary monarch might sometimes be personally a weak or a wicked ruler , presented much less difficulty in their view than was seen in the circumstances which seemed to ensure that the prince should always ...
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... fact , that the burgher's passion for liberty rarely extended beyond the liberty affecting him as a burgess ; and from the circumstance , that even this measure of liberty was often realized by means of insurrection and crime , on such ...
... fact , that the burgher's passion for liberty rarely extended beyond the liberty affecting him as a burgess ; and from the circumstance , that even this measure of liberty was often realized by means of insurrection and crime , on such ...
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... fact , that the faults on either side were so nearly equal . The meeting of the States - General began in French history , as we have stated , in the first year of the fourteenth century . Philip le Bel , in convening the assembly of ...
... fact , that the faults on either side were so nearly equal . The meeting of the States - General began in French history , as we have stated , in the first year of the fourteenth century . Philip le Bel , in convening the assembly of ...
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... fact , every phase of the religious , in common with every phase of the political , has had its development , more or less , among that people . Europe embraces nothing in either of these great departments which France has not embraced ...
... fact , every phase of the religious , in common with every phase of the political , has had its development , more or less , among that people . Europe embraces nothing in either of these great departments which France has not embraced ...
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... fact , the authority of Calvin , as the great modern father , came very much into the place of the authority of all preceding fathers ; and this severance between the present and the past , though expedient and necessary up to a certain ...
... fact , the authority of Calvin , as the great modern father , came very much into the place of the authority of all preceding fathers ; and this severance between the present and the past , though expedient and necessary up to a certain ...
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