INSTITUTIONS OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTITUTION, POWERS, AND PROCEDURE, OF ITS LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. WITH COPIOUS REFERENCES TO ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORITIES. BY HOMERSHAM COX, M.A., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AUTHOR OF 'THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH,' ETC. LONDON: WEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET, LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER. 1863. [The right of Translation is reserved.] UNIVERSITY 871, 90/1. "The next remove must be to the study of Politics; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of political societies; that they may not, in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth, be such poor, shaken, uncertain reeds, of such a tottering conscience, as many of our great counsellors have of late shown themselves, but steadfast pillars of the State." Milton's Epistle to Hartlib, on Education. 6947 61-135 |