 | Clara Eugenia Núñez - 1998 - 188 trang
...the English Ambassador Sir William Temple (1972: 52) remarked in a celebrated phrase about the Dutch, to discover the nature of their Government from the...little States or Cities, which have several marks of Soveraign Power within themselves, and are not subject to the Soveraignty of their Province. The peculiar... | |
 | Scott GORDON, Scott Gordon - 2009 - 408 trang
...Seven Soveraign Provinces united together for their common and mutual defence, without any dependance, one upon the other. But to discover the nature of...little States or Cities, which have several marks of Soveraign Power within themselves, and are not subject to the Soveraignty of their Province; Not being... | |
 | Mogens Herman Hansen - 2000 - 648 trang
...independent provinces, Sir William, who had been England's Ambassador to The Hague, went on to explain that "to discover the nature of their Government from the...little States or Cities, which have several marks of Soveraign Power within themselves, and are not subject to the Soveraignty of their Province" (Temple... | |
 | Maarten Prak - 2005 - 344 trang
...the City of Amsterdam',4 adding that even though formal sovereignty resided in the provincial States, 'to discover the nature of their Government from the...little states or Cities, which have several marks of soveraign power within themselves'.5 The truth of Temple's words is borne out by the apportionment... | |
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But to discover the Nature of their Government from the first Springs and Motions, it must be taken yet into smaller Pieces, by which it will appear, that each of these Provinces is likewise composed of many little States or Cities, which have several... 