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Parliament had separated into two Houses in the reign of Edward II for Edward I's Model Parliament had been a Single Chamber, though doubtless it voted by classes but the House of Commons represented the communities of the realm, and not its lower orders; or rather, it concentrated all these communities shires, cities, and boroughs and welded them into a single community of the realm.
And, therefore, the enactment in dispute would only imply that the constitution was not to be altered except through the constitutional channel which Solon had appointed. See Fast. Hell., vol. ii., 276. Including, as I before observed, that law which provided for any constitutional change in a constitutional manner.
The young women were nearly all of remarkable beauty. They had imitated the antique costume I had suggested to the Grand Duchess Elisabeth for Catherine II.'s ball. They wore cashmere tunics edged with gold fringes; gorgeous jewels held their short upturned sleeves in place; their Greek head-dresses were for the most part tied with bands adorned with diamonds.
What they should say is that though, like all women, they have been proposing to men all their lives, yet they grieve to remember that they have been invariably refused. Marriage i The question of marriage or non-marriage is only the question of whether it is better to be spoiled one way or another. ii In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. iii
From the time of Philip II. to the last of her kings, Spain had but one monarch that could have escaped a lunatic asylum on a commission ad inquirendo, and not a single royal family in all that time that had not at least one judicially declared idiot in the household; and more than once it was the regular successor to the throne.
In the Italian States a clear political consciousness, the pattern of Mohammedan administration, and the long and active exercise of trade and commerce, combined to produce for the first time a true science of statistics. The absolute monarchy of Frederick II in Lower Italy was organized with the sole object of securing a concentrated power for the death struggle in which he was engaged.
So, with the restoration of Charles II to the throne, when once more he was governor of Virginia, he was determined to permit no more of representative government than his commission and instructions made necessary. This he did by corrupting the Burgesses and continuing them by prorogations for many years.
Of the letter which she was writing she knew nothing whatever. "Léonie II.'s independent action is not entirely confined to writing letters. In order to accomplish an act like this Léonie II. has to wait for a moment when Léonie I. is distracted, or, as we say, absent-minded.
The partisans of the Bourbons believed that France longed for the grandson of St. Louis, for its hereditary king, Henry V.; the imperialists were convinced that the new government was about to be overthrown, and that France was more anxious than ever to see the emperors son, Napoleon II., restored.
On the twenty-second day of June the emperor sent in his abdication in favor of his son, the King of Rome, to the chambers; and a week later the chambers proclaimed Napoleon's son Emperor of France, under the name of Napoleon II.
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