The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.W. and W. Strahan, 1769 - Europe |
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... customs , vague and capricious , were fubftituted . The human mind neglected , uncultivated , and depreffed , funk into the most profound igno- rance . Europe did not produce , during four centuries , one author who merits to be read ...
... customs , vague and capricious , were fubftituted . The human mind neglected , uncultivated , and depreffed , funk into the most profound igno- rance . Europe did not produce , during four centuries , one author who merits to be read ...
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... customs and inftitutions without acquiring information and improve- ment . Their views enlarged ; their prejudices wore off ; new ideas crowded into their minds ; and they must have been sen- fible on many occafions of the rufticity of ...
... customs and inftitutions without acquiring information and improve- ment . Their views enlarged ; their prejudices wore off ; new ideas crowded into their minds ; and they must have been sen- fible on many occafions of the rufticity of ...
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... custom ; and similar conceffions were extorted from their respec tive fovereigns . It continued , however , to be an object of policy with every monarch of abilities or vigour , to explode the trial by combat ; and various edicts were ...
... custom ; and similar conceffions were extorted from their respec tive fovereigns . It continued , however , to be an object of policy with every monarch of abilities or vigour , to explode the trial by combat ; and various edicts were ...
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... customs of different provinces or kingdoms , were collected and arranged with an order and accuracy acquired from the knowledge of Roman jurisprudence . In fome countries of Europe the Roman law was adopted as subsidiary to their own ...
... customs of different provinces or kingdoms , were collected and arranged with an order and accuracy acquired from the knowledge of Roman jurisprudence . In fome countries of Europe the Roman law was adopted as subsidiary to their own ...
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... custom , funk much in value , and the revenues of a fief were reduced far below the sum which it had once yielded . During their contests with the English , in which a generous nobility courted every station where danger appeared , or ...
... custom , funk much in value , and the revenues of a fief were reduced far below the sum which it had once yielded . During their contests with the English , in which a generous nobility courted every station where danger appeared , or ...
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