The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... facts of the past history and present condition of human societies . In both we have also to notice the speculative ... fact , it demands for its solution a knowledge of the whole past of the human race . It has been answered over and ...
... facts of the past history and present condition of human societies . In both we have also to notice the speculative ... fact , it demands for its solution a knowledge of the whole past of the human race . It has been answered over and ...
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... fact , and it is amusing to compare his demonstration of the baselessness of Filmer's speculations with the scanty and doubtful ex- amples which he accepts as the foundation of his own . But in general the various forms of the ...
... fact , and it is amusing to compare his demonstration of the baselessness of Filmer's speculations with the scanty and doubtful ex- amples which he accepts as the foundation of his own . But in general the various forms of the ...
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... fact they often do not - possess the confidence of the House of Lords . It is only in legislation that the Lower House really shares its powers with the Upper ; and the con- stitution possesses , in the unlimited power of nominating ...
... fact they often do not - possess the confidence of the House of Lords . It is only in legislation that the Lower House really shares its powers with the Upper ; and the con- stitution possesses , in the unlimited power of nominating ...
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... fact , a minister like the others . So far as the transmission of power from cabinet to cabinet is concerned , he discharges the functions of an English king . But the transmission of power between himself and his successor is protected ...
... fact , a minister like the others . So far as the transmission of power from cabinet to cabinet is concerned , he discharges the functions of an English king . But the transmission of power between himself and his successor is protected ...
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... fact . | all the kinds of state action not included in the other two . From his point of view the cause of a particular law is not It is with reference to legislation and administration that one but many , and of the many the deliberate ...
... fact . | all the kinds of state action not included in the other two . From his point of view the cause of a particular law is not It is with reference to legislation and administration that one but many , and of the many the deliberate ...
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