Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of [European] History, Volume 1

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Page 12 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 6 - John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine...
Page 10 - And if you desire to know what was done with the enemy who were found there, know that in Solomon's Porch and in his temple our men rode in the blood of the Saracens up to the knees of their horses.
Page 17 - Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting.
Page 3 - And I will that every child be his father's heir after his father's day ; and I will not endure that any man offer any wrong to you. God keep you.
Page 3 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord...
Page 7 - It is the will of God ! It is the will of God...
Page 6 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Page 22 - For he himself witnesses what he has seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears.
Page 6 - Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man...

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