Lectures on Early English HistoryLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 391 pages |
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Page 357 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Page 346 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him nor condemn him but by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 356 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused. Thro' future time by power of thought.
Page 291 - De minoribus rebus principes consultant; de majoribus omnes : ita tamen, ut ea quoque, quorum penes plebem arbitrium est, apud principes pertractentur.
Page 357 - Tho' all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers ; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers, We have a voice, with which to pay the debt Of boundless love and reverence and regret To those great men who fought, and kept it ours. And keep it ours...
Page 31 - ... as much as he could. If two or three men came riding to a town, all the township fled before them, and thought that they were robbers. The bishops, and clergy were ever cursing them, but this to them was nothing, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and reprobate.
Page 31 - ... were. They hung some up by their feet, and smoked them with foul smoke ; some by their thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads, and twisted it till it went into the brain.
Page 349 - But it is still the keystone of English liberty. All that has since been obtained is little more than as confirmation or commentary; and* if every subsequent law were to be swept away, there would still remain the bold features that distinguish a free from a despotic monarchy.
Page 31 - Sachentege was made thus: it was fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor sleep, but that he must bear all the iron.
Page 349 - It has been lately the fashion to depreciate the value of Magna Charta, as if it had sprung from the private ambition of a few selfish barons, and redressed only some feudal abuses.