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The Growth of the English Constitution From the Earliest Times

by Edward Augustus Freeman

2019-06-12 23:53:46

The proverb “qui s’excuse s’accuse” is so regularly turned against any author who gives any account of the origin of his work that it may be well to prevent its quotation by quoting it oneself. I have to ask that these three Chapters and thei ... Read more
The proverb “qui s’excuse s’accuse” is so regularly turned against any author who gives any account of the origin of his work that it may be well to prevent its quotation by quoting it oneself. I have to ask that these three Chapters and their accompanying Notes may not be judged by the standard of a book. If I were to write a book on the English Constitution, it would be different in form and, in many points, different in style. What the reader has here is a somewhat extended form of two Lectures given at Leeds and Bradford last January. I had thought that they might be worth printing in the shape of two magazine-*papers; others thought that they might do good in their present shape. I therefore expanded the latter part of the second Lecture, which had tovi be cut very short in delivery, so as to make a third Chapter, and I added such notes and references as seemed to be needed. Less

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File size224.246 KB
Print pages248
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-02-22
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781010231936,
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Edward Augustus Freeman
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Edward Augustus Freeman[1] (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister of the United ...

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