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Page 90 - Et .sic ex quatuor prsedictis potest colligi definitio legis quae nihil est aliud quam quaedam rationis ordinatio ad bonum commune ab eo qui curam communitatis habet promulgata.
Page 185 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page iv - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Page xlvi - It could never be hoped, that more sober and dispassionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the king upon?
Page 75 - ... mediator dei et hominum . te mediatorem cleri et plebis in hoc regni solio confirmet...
Page 91 - Et praeter eos quamvis enumeres multos licet: cum déni creentur, nonnullos in omni memoria reperies perniciosos tribunos; leves, etiam non bonos fortasse plures: invidia quidem summus ordo caret, plebes de suo iure periculosas contentiones nullas facit.
Page 41 - Normannis, et alterutrum uxores ducentibus vel nubentibus, sic permixtae sunt nationes, ut vix decerni possit hodie, de liberis loquor, quis Anglicus quis Normannus sit genere ; exceptis duntaxat ascriptitiis qui villani dicuntur, quibus non est liberum obstantibus dominis suis a sui status conditione discedere.
Page 105 - Videtis jam, genus hoc omne scientiœ, diligentiœ, memoriœ esse; sine quo paratus esse senator nullo pacto potest. Deinceps sunt cum populo actiones ; in quibus primum, et maximum, " Vis abesto." Nihil est enim exitiosius civitatibus, nihil tam contrarium juri et legibus, nihil minus civile et humanum, quam, composita et constituta republica, quidquam agi per vim.
Page 119 - De minoribus rebus principes consultant ; de majoribus omnes : ita tamen, ut ea quoque, quorum penes plebem arbitrium est, apud principes pertractentur.
Page 77 - He was my crowned king, and if the parliamentary authority of England set the crown upon a stock, I will fight for that stock ; and as I fought then for him, I will fight for you, when you are established by the said authority.