Annual Report of the American Historical Association

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916

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Página 5 - Said association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America. Said secretary shall communicate to Congress the whole of such reports, or such portions thereof as he shall see fit. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the National...
Página 176 - ... themselves, and to transmit to their posterity a known law, a certain rule of living, reduced to this conclusion, that instead of the arbitrary power of a king, we must submit to the arbitrary power of a house of commons? If this be true, what benefit do we derive from the exchange ? Tyranny, my lords, is detestable in every shape ; but in none so formidable as when it is assumed and exercised by a number of tyrants.
Página 174 - For, as every court of justice hath laws and customs for its direction, some the civil and canon, some the common law, others their own peculiar laws and customs, so the high court of parliament hath also its own peculiar law, called the lex et consuetudo parliamenti ; a law which, Sir Edward Coke (r) observes, is " ab omnibus qucerenda, amultis ignorata (17) apaucis cognita.
Página 203 - Delia Rovina di una Monarchia, Relazioni Storiche tra Pio VI e la Corte di Napoli negli Anni 1776-1799, secondo Document! Inediti dell' Archivio Vaticano (1901), and by Du Teil in Rome, Naples, et le Directoire, Armstices et Traites, 1796-1797 (1902).
Página 287 - ... herself; and though her desire would be to see that country independent, yet it is not a point she would seek to carry by disturbing the peace of the world. But she will, doubtless, now, take care that Mexico shall not cede California, or any part thereof, to us. You know my opinion to have been, and it now is, that the port of San Francisco would be twenty times as valuable to us as all Texas.
Página 172 - That it was a most perilous precedent, where two knights of a county were duly elected, if any new writ should issue out for a second election, without order of the house itself; that the discussing and adjudging of this and such like differences...
Página 11 - These officers shall be elected by ballot at each regular annual meeting of the association.
Página 174 - ... and the like. But I take these to be one and the same thing. For the authority of these maxims rests entirely upon general reception and usage: and the only method of proving, that this or that maxim is a rule of the common law, is by showing that it hath been always the custom to observe it.
Página 79 - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. By WA MORRIS.
Página 127 - Turks led traders to endeavor to find new channels and issued In the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and the discovery of America. A pamphlet printed privately within a year or two states that the Turks built, as it were, a...

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