A country of respectful poor, though far less happy than where there are no poor to be respectful, is nevertheless far more fitted for the best government. You can use the best classes of the respectful country; you can only use the worst where every... The English Constitution - Página 54por Walter Bagehot - 1867 - 348 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Bagehot - 1873 - 362 páginas
...highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. A life of labor, and incomplete education, a monotonous occupation, a career...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is- known to be old.... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1877 - 488 páginas
...most impressive part — the part that they know — culminates. The mass of the English people arc politically contented as well as politically deferential....the respectful country ; you can only use the worst wheje every man thinks he is as good as every other. It is evident that no difficulty can be greater... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 494 páginas
...; and the highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. A lite of labour, an incomplete education, a monotonous occupation,...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional ; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 páginas
...highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. A life of labor, an incomplete education, a monotonous occupation,...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional : it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1893 - 550 páginas
...existence; who cannot lead the life that becomes a man. But the most miserable of these classen *io not impute their misery to politics. If a political...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| 1901 - 480 páginas
...highest classes must, as such, have more political ability than the lower classes. A life of labor, an incomplete education, a monotonous occupation,...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| 1901 - 484 páginas
...have more political ability than the lower classes. \ 208 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION A life of labor, an incomplete education, a monotonous occupation,...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| Rainbow Circle, London - 1911 - 188 páginas
...Government than any kind of democratic country, because it is more suited to political excellence. ... A country of respectful poor, though far less happy...where every man thinks he is as good as every other." Such a doctrine Lord Lansdowne would hardly dare to proclaim to-day. II shall contend, on the contrary,... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 386 páginas
...rules that society, in whom all its most impressive part — the part that they know — culminates. The mass of the English people are politically contented...greater than that of founding a deferential nation. Respect is traditional ; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.... | |
| United States. Congress. Organization of Congress Special Joint Committee - 1945 - 512 páginas
...wishes to be ruled by the less numerous wiser part. * * * A country of respectful poor," he observed, "though far less happy than where there are no poor...nevertheless far more fitted for the best government." As the franchise was repeatedly extended, the British poor became somewhat less like the "miserable... | |
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