The English ConstitutionHenry S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas |
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... body of the ten - pound householders belonged -- the lower middle class - was above all classes the one most hardly treated in the imposition of the taxes . A small shopkeeper or a clerk who just , and only just , was rich enough to pay ...
... body of the ten - pound householders belonged -- the lower middle class - was above all classes the one most hardly treated in the imposition of the taxes . A small shopkeeper or a clerk who just , and only just , was rich enough to pay ...
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... bodies of the educated rich go to the consti- tuencies to decide between them , and the majority of the constituencies now consist of the uneducated poor . cannot be for the advantage of anyone . This In doing so besides the aristocracy ...
... bodies of the educated rich go to the consti- tuencies to decide between them , and the majority of the constituencies now consist of the uneducated poor . cannot be for the advantage of anyone . This In doing so besides the aristocracy ...
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... body will patiently hear - in many cases will cheer and approve - some rather strong speeches against rank . Each man is a little afraid that his 66 sneaking kindness for a lord , " as Mr. Gladstone put it , be found out ; he is not ...
... body will patiently hear - in many cases will cheer and approve - some rather strong speeches against rank . Each man is a little afraid that his 66 sneaking kindness for a lord , " as Mr. Gladstone put it , be found out ; he is not ...
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... body of the Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they would have if the House of Lords were abolished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in ...
... body of the Lords have an incalculably greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords , than they would have if the House of Lords were abolished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in ...
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... bodies are excessively low ; and even such mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority : the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ...
... bodies are excessively low ; and even such mind and culture as there is has long been enslaved to authority : the French peasant cares more for standing well with his present préfet than for anything else whatever ; he is far too ...
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