A Short History of ParliamentHarper, 1887 - 345 páginas |
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... favor with Henry III . He even incurred the resentment of the barons by a secret marriage with Henry's sister Eleanor . But the king was fickle and changeable . He quarrelled with Mont- fort as he had quarrelled with Hubert de Bergh ...
... favor with Henry III . He even incurred the resentment of the barons by a secret marriage with Henry's sister Eleanor . But the king was fickle and changeable . He quarrelled with Mont- fort as he had quarrelled with Hubert de Bergh ...
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... favor in a very brief space of time , conferring on him the government of Gascony . Skill and severity combined enabled Simon to restore temporary order to this turbulent province ; but , at the same time , cre- ated for him many ...
... favor in a very brief space of time , conferring on him the government of Gascony . Skill and severity combined enabled Simon to restore temporary order to this turbulent province ; but , at the same time , cre- ated for him many ...
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... favor of the King of France . Civil war broke out at last ; but , overmatched as he was , Earl Simon contrived by superior generalship to inflict a severe defeat on the royal army at Lewes , May 14 , 1264 , which gave the king into his ...
... favor of the King of France . Civil war broke out at last ; but , overmatched as he was , Earl Simon contrived by superior generalship to inflict a severe defeat on the royal army at Lewes , May 14 , 1264 , which gave the king into his ...
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... favor for advancement and protection from the hatred of the nation . When Henry VII . therefore summoned the Lords to the Parliament of 1485 , it is scarcely singular that there appeared only twenty - nine temporal peers , several of ...
... favor for advancement and protection from the hatred of the nation . When Henry VII . therefore summoned the Lords to the Parliament of 1485 , it is scarcely singular that there appeared only twenty - nine temporal peers , several of ...
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Britiffe Constable Skottowe. sible to argument , and they eventually carried the day in favor of a heavy tax . Wolsey was so disgusted with the independence of Parliament that he determined for the future to raise money by ...
Britiffe Constable Skottowe. sible to argument , and they eventually carried the day in favor of a heavy tax . Wolsey was so disgusted with the independence of Parliament that he determined for the future to raise money by ...
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Página 99 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Página 187 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 238 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. ' I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.
Página 187 - I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. " Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided.
Página 99 - since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a King, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.
Página 133 - And yet this revolution, of all revolutions the least violent, has been, of all revolutions, the most beneficent. It finally decided the great question whether the popular element which had, ever since the age of Fitzwalter and De Montfort, been found in the English polity, should be destroyed by the monarchical element, or should be suffered to develop itself freely, and to become dominant.
Página 226 - This resistance to your arbitrary system of taxation might have been foreseen : it was obvious from the nature of things, and of mankind ; and above all, from the whiggish spirit flourishing in that country. The spirit which now resists your taxation in America, is the same which formerly opposed loans, benevolences, and ship-money in...