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If there were any such distinction in the time of Coke, it had doubtless grown up within the four centuries that had elapsed since Magna Carta, and is to be set down as one of the numberless inventions of government for getting rid of the restraints of Magna Carta, and for taking men out of the protection of their peers, and subjecting them to such punishments as the government chooses to inflict.
"We have no objection to Mr. T-S coming here," he said, "or Miss Magna either." "That is," said I, "so long as they obey the law, and don't get in bad with the Western City 'Times'!" After a moment I added, "You may make your mind easy. I will go downstairs and wait for Mr. Carpenter, and tell him he is not wanted." And so I left the Labor Temple and walked up and down on the sidewalk in front.
Then the question came to be solemnly tried, whether this was not a violation of Magna Charta, and an encroachment by the King on the highest rights of the English people. His lawyers contended No, because to encroach upon the rights of the English people would be to do wrong, and the King could do no wrong.
Slaveholders, and the apologists of slavery, have eagerly seized upon this little passage of Scripture, and held it up as the masters' Magna Charta, by which they were licensed by God himself to commit the greatest outrages upon the defenceless victims of their oppression. But, my friends, was it designed to be so?
Magna Charta, which secured these franchises to the subjects, regarded the rights of freeholders in counties to be as much a fundamental part of the Constitution as the establishment of the Church of England was thought either at that time, or in the act of King William, or in the act of Queen Anne.
South of Romagna, you have the kingdoms of Calabria and Sicily, -Magna Graecia, and Syracuse, in decay; strange spiritual fire from the Saracenic east still lighting the volcanic land, itself laid all in ashes. Conceive Italy then always in these four masses: Lombardy, Etruria, Romagna, Calabria.
One thing, especially, I remember, because it served to identify the man still more: as soon as the ceremony was over, they were to go to Combe Magna, his seat in Somersetshire. My astonishment! but it would be impossible to describe what I felt. The communicative lady I learnt, on inquiry, for I stayed in the shop till they were gone, was a Mrs.
And if these principles be bad," I added to my uncle, "then should we think with shame upon the Magna Charta." My grandfather stood astonished at such a speech from me, whom he had thought a lad yet without a formed knowledge of public affairs.
These FREEMEN were not created by the Norman Conquest, they existed prior thereto; and the laws, of which this is one, are declared to be the laws of Edward the Confessor, which William re-enacted. Selden, in "The Laws and Government of England," p. 34, speaks of this law as the first Magna Charta.
"I wish to ask you nothing which might give you pain, but I must know you see, I am really such a ordinary woman I must know about some one whom you went to visit that day, didn't you, at Detton Magna?" He answered her almost eagerly. "I want to talk about Beatrice," he declared. "I want to tell you everything about her. I know that you will understand.
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