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a cardinal legate, from Rome, governs Bologna, and the fenate is a mere engine in his hands.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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t. ition in the fenate is a reprefentation of ftates, we iliall fee by and by, when we come to confider that branch of the feeder al government.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America: With that Constitution ... James Wilson, Thomas McKean 1792
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» I 'totifequence of th« popular choice: hence they ihew due refpcft to the peopIC | by having a part tif the fenate-houfc appropriated for their accom - modiltion; fufficiently capacious to hold exaelly ss many perfons as there are members of the fenate; in which place any man is entitled to a feat to hear the debates, whofe habiliments do not declare his fer\-itude, or not known to be fo.
Libellus: or, A Bried Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham W. Charles 1798
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Next day the Duke of Hamilton accompaaied by the archduke and duchcfs, feveral Venetiaa ladies of the fird didfindioo, and a deputation from the fenate, vifited the arfenal.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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This intimacy gave him an opportunity of know - ing the young mouaich's difpofition towards Menzikoff Young Dolgoronki prom i fed to de - liver the prince into the hands of the-fenate, and in the eKecution of this plan, difplayed the pru - dence, which is generally the fruit only of age, matured by experience.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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- This ad of piety, however,, was not fo efficacious. as the deputation of the fenate had been.
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Under the Romans it was the capital of a colony, and the feat of a fenate.
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The fo - vereign power refides in the council of one hundred, comprifing the fenate, or little council.
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So foonf as they got on the out fide of the wall, they were received by a great number of tiobleraen, wha were waiting for them, and by whom they were condudled to the place where the fenate \yas af - ferabled.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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The civil go - vernment and police of the town arc allowed to remain in the hands of the magiftnites, who are chofen by the fenate, originally conliliing of forty perfons; but fincethe republic came under the prote6tion of the pope, of fifty.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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