The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.W. and W. Strahan, 1769 - Europe |
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... importance of the enquiry merits , to trace back the inftitutions , and cuftoms peculiar to their countrymen . It is not my province to give a minute detail of the progress of government and manners in each particular nation , whose [ D ] ...
... importance of the enquiry merits , to trace back the inftitutions , and cuftoms peculiar to their countrymen . It is not my province to give a minute detail of the progress of government and manners in each particular nation , whose [ D ] ...
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... importance to keep in view their mutual connection and dependance , and to fhow how the operation of one event , or of one caufe , prepared the way for another , and augmented its influence . We have hitherto been contemplat- ing the ...
... importance to keep in view their mutual connection and dependance , and to fhow how the operation of one event , or of one caufe , prepared the way for another , and augmented its influence . We have hitherto been contemplat- ing the ...
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... importance , when they ceased to be the fole guardians to whom the people could look up for protection against violence . If the nobility suffered fome diminution of their credit and power by the privileges granted to the cities , the ...
... importance , when they ceased to be the fole guardians to whom the people could look up for protection against violence . If the nobility suffered fome diminution of their credit and power by the privileges granted to the cities , the ...
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... importance of the subject in dispute , or the nature of the crime with which a person was charged . In fome cafes , the concurrence of no less than three hundred of these auxiliary witnesses was requifite to acquit the person accused ...
... importance of the subject in dispute , or the nature of the crime with which a person was charged . In fome cafes , the concurrence of no less than three hundred of these auxiliary witnesses was requifite to acquit the person accused ...
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... importance , when folemnly referred to his decifion . And likewife by their mar tial spirit . WITH this fuperftitious opinion , the martial spirit of Europe , during the middle ages , concurred in establishing the mode of trial by ...
... importance , when folemnly referred to his decifion . And likewife by their mar tial spirit . WITH this fuperftitious opinion , the martial spirit of Europe , during the middle ages , concurred in establishing the mode of trial by ...
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