 | Thomas Erskine May - 1863 - 608 strani
...the board-meeting, and the Court of Quarter Sessions. England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity...local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors,1 her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1865 - 672 strani
...the board-meeting, and the Court of Quarter Sessions. England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity...local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors1, her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1865 - 684 strani
...the board-meeting, and the Court of Quarter Sessions. England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity...local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors1, her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1871 - 588 strani
...ascribed, above all things, to her free local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors,1 her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties...for the common good, they have become exercised in piiblic affairs. Thousands of small communities have enjoyed the privileges of self-government: taxing... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1875 - 530 strani
...the board-meeting, and the Court of Quarter Sessions. England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity;...institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors, i her sons have learned, at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens. Associating,... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1883 - 184 strani
...corner-stone of political freedom. " England alone among the nations of the earth," says Sir Erskine May, "has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity;...common good, they have become exercised in public affairs."i "Local assemblies of citizens," says De Tocqueville, discussing the townships of New England,... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1885 - 796 strani
...England alone, among the nations of the earth, has maintained for centuries a constitutional t'olity ; and her liberties may be ascribed, above all things...institutions ! " "Since the days of their Saxon ancestors, hi']' sons have learned at their own gates, the duties and responsibilities of citizens." " Associating,... | |
 | National Bar Association of the United States - 1890 - 108 strani
...martial airs of England." Sir Erskine May says that "England alone among the nations of the -earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity,...ancestors her sons have learned at their own gates the 61 duties and responsibilities of citizens." It is true of America in a much greater degree than it... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 834 strani
...self-government has never been obliterated. " Since the days of their Saxon ancestors," continues May, "England's sons have learned at their own gates the duties and...good, they have become exercised in public affairs. Thousands of small communities have become separately trained to self-government, taxing themselves... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 856 strani
...the board-meeting, and the Court of Quarter Sessions. England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity;...above all things to her free local institutions." What misfortunes the shire-moot and the tun-moot have undergone in their transmission through the ages... | |
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England alone among the nations of the earth has maintained for centuries a constitutional polity ; and her liberties may be ascribed, above all things, to her free local institutions. Since the days of their Saxon ancestors', her sons have learned, at... 
