The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... influence of inherited liability . Gout is said to affect the sedentary more readily than the active , but this cannot be taken as a very constant rule . If , however , inadequate exercise be combined with a luxurious manner of living ...
... influence of inherited liability . Gout is said to affect the sedentary more readily than the active , but this cannot be taken as a very constant rule . If , however , inadequate exercise be combined with a luxurious manner of living ...
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... influence over his ministers . And it must be remembered that ministers are responsible ultimately , not to parliament , but to the House of Commons . The connexion between representation and the feudal . system of estates must be ...
... influence over his ministers . And it must be remembered that ministers are responsible ultimately , not to parliament , but to the House of Commons . The connexion between representation and the feudal . system of estates must be ...
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... influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it . There thus sprang up in the most conservative classes of society a strong feeling of jealousy for local ...
... influence , which might otherwise have gone to aggrandize the influence of the crown , was really employed to thwart it . There thus sprang up in the most conservative classes of society a strong feeling of jealousy for local ...
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... influence of the judges , that law has , during the period in question , been uniformly interpreted in a sense favourable to the freedom of discus- sion . One of the few remaining restrictions on religious freedom is the principle ...
... influence of the judges , that law has , during the period in question , been uniformly interpreted in a sense favourable to the freedom of discus- sion . One of the few remaining restrictions on religious freedom is the principle ...
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... influence of freedom . A step in this direction has certainly been taken in the proposal to allow communes to elect their own maire ; and the abuse of the prefectoral system by a recent ministry ought to lead to some diminution of its ...
... influence of freedom . A step in this direction has certainly been taken in the proposal to allow communes to elect their own maire ; and the abuse of the prefectoral system by a recent ministry ought to lead to some diminution of its ...
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