This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ... not take upon the tb answer for Mr. Somers, whose great knowledge in the laws and history of the kingdom enables him to fee further into the subject than I do; but to me nothing appears more natural or probable than this account of the rife and progress of the English monarchy. One difficulty, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ... not take upon the tb answer for Mr. Somers, whose great knowledge in the laws and history of the kingdom enables him to fee further into the subject than I do; but to me nothing appears more natural or probable than this account of the rife and progress of the English monarchy. One difficulty, in particular, which seemed to embarrass this inquiry, you have entirely removed, "Vol. II.. M by by hewing how, from the aristocratieal form which prevailed in the earlier times, she more free and popular one of our days hath gradually taken place, and that without any violence to the antient.constitution a., ..." !i ';.v.:, rr..: . '.' 'i-v: MR. SOMERS....!.. J.., ' At least, mylord, with so little, that we may, perhaps, apply to the Englijh government what the naturalists observe pi. the, Iuman Body w; that, when it. arrives at its futy growth, it does not perhaps retain a single particle of.the matter it originally set. out with; yet the M. Dt Montesojjieb observes.of the Gothic 'government--" II fut d'abord mele de l'aristocrarj?tie, etde la monarchic II avoit cet inconvenient, ( que le bas.peuple y etoit esclave: Cetoit un hon "gouvernment, qui avoit en soi la capacite de devexir meillcui-." l."xi'.'c. 8.--the very idea, which is here inculcated. to See old FoRrEscuE, in his book De laudiius.legum Anglia, where this fort of analogy is pursued at length through a great part of the xi u"1 chapter. .""', alteration alteration hath been made so gradually and imperceptibly, that the system is ac-Counted the same under all changes. Just so, I think, we seem to have shaken off the constituent parts of the Feudal Constitution; but, liberty having been always the informing principle, time and...
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