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... modern society has accustomed it- self to look upon the results of the revolutions of 1649 and 1688 as final , and settled by events , and the contract entered into be- PREFACE . xix tween the parliament , or representative body.
... modern society has accustomed it- self to look upon the results of the revolutions of 1649 and 1688 as final , and settled by events , and the contract entered into be- PREFACE . xix tween the parliament , or representative body.
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... entered . Had Bismarck not been so vehemently attacked at the onset of his political and representative career , it is very probable that the stout resistance he made would not have proved so strenuous . But the attack was one which ...
... entered . Had Bismarck not been so vehemently attacked at the onset of his political and representative career , it is very probable that the stout resistance he made would not have proved so strenuous . But the attack was one which ...
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... strike the imagination of the public by sudden reso- lutions . Nobody can prophesy what will be the final result of the great political experiment upon which he has entered , for it xxviii PREFACE . depends on the working of so many.
... strike the imagination of the public by sudden reso- lutions . Nobody can prophesy what will be the final result of the great political experiment upon which he has entered , for it xxviii PREFACE . depends on the working of so many.
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... entered the first rank of the aristoc- racy of the Alt Mark in the same fourteenth century . It would be almost puerile , by means of fantastic explanations respecting the races bearing the name of Bismarck , to deprive the Minister of ...
... entered the first rank of the aristoc- racy of the Alt Mark in the same fourteenth century . It would be almost puerile , by means of fantastic explanations respecting the races bearing the name of Bismarck , to deprive the Minister of ...
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... entered the first rank of the nobility of the Alt Mark , as Castellans . * These Castellan families in the Alt Mark , although they could not claim any right to a higher rank , formed a privileged class of the chivalric nobility , which ...
... entered the first rank of the nobility of the Alt Mark , as Castellans . * These Castellan families in the Alt Mark , although they could not claim any right to a higher rank , formed a privileged class of the chivalric nobility , which ...
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