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... parliamentary politics as of old she entered into sovereign polity , proclaiming always the ancient ideal . And what is so fascinating throughout all these phases of history is this persis- tent element of continuity . The means of ...
... parliamentary politics as of old she entered into sovereign polity , proclaiming always the ancient ideal . And what is so fascinating throughout all these phases of history is this persis- tent element of continuity . The means of ...
Σελίδα 103
... parliament , not as royal grants or as deriving their force from legislative sanction , but as customs existing from time immemorial . " Through the medium of its local tribunals , many ancient customs which were at variance with the ...
... parliament , not as royal grants or as deriving their force from legislative sanction , but as customs existing from time immemorial . " Through the medium of its local tribunals , many ancient customs which were at variance with the ...
Σελίδα 161
... Cornhell of a " mill next to the Tower of London 1 Letter Book , 1350-1370 , p . 125 . 2 Letter Book , temp . Ed . I. , pp . 177-179 . 2 in Stebbehive . " In a petition to Parliament 11 THE INSTITUTION OF THE CITY 161.
... Cornhell of a " mill next to the Tower of London 1 Letter Book , 1350-1370 , p . 125 . 2 Letter Book , temp . Ed . I. , pp . 177-179 . 2 in Stebbehive . " In a petition to Parliament 11 THE INSTITUTION OF THE CITY 161.
Σελίδα 162
George Laurence Gomme. 2 in Stebbehive . " In a petition to Parliament at Carlisle in 35 Edward I. the Earl of Lincoln stated that in old times ten or twelve ships used often to come up to Fleet Bridge with merchandise , and some even to ...
George Laurence Gomme. 2 in Stebbehive . " In a petition to Parliament at Carlisle in 35 Edward I. the Earl of Lincoln stated that in old times ten or twelve ships used often to come up to Fleet Bridge with merchandise , and some even to ...
Σελίδα 165
... parliament . It is a pure working- out between the city and the state . Our commenc- ing point is the relationship between the city and the representative of the state , the sovereign king . Plantagenet kings took their share in the ...
... parliament . It is a pure working- out between the city and the state . Our commenc- ing point is the relationship between the city and the representative of the state , the sovereign king . Plantagenet kings took their share in the ...
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Σελίδα 219 - I think verily that many a man taketh his death in Paul's Churchyard, and this I speak of experience ; for I myself, when I have been there...
Σελίδα 201 - ... men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity ; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at...
Σελίδα 202 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Σελίδα 356 - Saxons, as it appeared, were accustomed to line their graves with chalk-stones ; though some, more eminent, were entombed in coffins of whole stones. Below these were British graves, where were found ivory and wooden pins, of a hard wood, seemingly box, in abundance, of about six inches long. It seems the bodies were only wrapped up, and pinned in woollen shrouds, which being consumed, the pins remained entire. In the same row, and deeper, were Roman urns intermixed. This was eighteen feet deep,...
Σελίδα 117 - In 1262 we have the following remarkable passage. "The mayor, Thomas FitzThomas, during the time of his mayoralty, had so pampered the city populace, that, styling themselves the 'commons of the city,' they had obtained the first voice in the city. For the mayor, in doing all that he had to do, acted and determined through them, and would say to them, 'Is it your will that so it shall be?' and then, if they answered 'Ya, ya,
Σελίδα 319 - Your Committee have thus given a picture in detail of human wretchedness, filth, and brutal degradation, the chief features of which are a disgrace to a civilized country, and which your Committee have reason to fear, from letters...
Σελίδα 344 - A city in our conception is not the buildings — walls, temples, docks, and so forth; these are no more than the local habitation that provides the members of the community with shelter and safety; it is in the citizens that we find the root of the matter; they it is that replenish and organize and achieve and guard, corresponding in the city to the soul in man. Holding this view, we are not indifferent, as you see, to our city's body; that we adorn with all the beauty we can impart to it; it is...
Σελίδα 163 - Oxford scarcely, I will not say satisfies, but sustains, its clerks. Exeter supports men and beasts with the same grain. Bath is placed, or rather buried, in the lowest parts of the valleys, in a very dense atmosphere and sulphury vapour, as it were at the gates of hell.
Σελίδα 354 - Roman causeway of rough stone, close and well rammed, with Roman brick and rubbish at the bottom for a foundation, and all firmly cemented.
Σελίδα 272 - Next to be noted, the most beautiful frame of fayre houses and shoppes, that bee within the Walles of London...