Word: feudality
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...Bishop of Beauvais and the Earl of Warwick. The Bishop objects to Joan of Arc because in her passion for God, she overlooks the respect which is a Bishop's due. The Earl objects to her because, in her passion for France, she overlooks the respect due to a Feudal Earl. Bishop and Earl join hands to burn...
...after a few months Labor would be defeated and the King would call upon the Liberal Party to form a new Government and would not dissolve Parliament. "Dissolution of Parliament," continued Mr. Asquith, "is in this country one of the prerogatives of the Crown. It is not a mere feudal survival, but it is a part, and I think a useful part, of our constitutional system for which there is no counterpart in any other country, such, for instance, as the United States...
...UP?Feudal hatreds of the Carolina mountains disappear before a primitive patriotism...
...efforts, created and fostered the movement. Although the Rhineland may be fundamentally German, as Mr. Jentsch says, she has always been far from thoroughly Prussian. In fact until within little more than a half century all of the German states formed merely a loose confederacy of semi-feudal governments. Feuds and jealousies were rife between them and only a powerful and autocratic central government was able finally to bind them into a nation. Hence a separate state in the Rhineland or, in fact, anywhere in Germany would simply be a relapse into a former condition. Certainly the Rhineland does...
...Up?An intense study of the primitive. Carolina mountain folk, mother love, cowardice, feudal hate...