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WILLIAM STUBBS Seventeen lectures on the study of medieval and modern history and kindred subjects

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WILLIAM STUBBS
Seventeen lectures on the study of medieval and modern history and kindred subjects
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256 CONCLUSION. not extorted by agitators, it is the outgrowth of law and [ a law-abiding spirit, tending by its very nature to freedom and order conjointly. The transition from medieval to modern history is in this department of national life not an abrupt transition, but a growth befitting a land of settled government ; Ά land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent; Where faction seldom gathers head, But, by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread.'