The English ConstitutionOxford University Press, 1928 - 312 páginas |
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... George the Thirds and George the Fourths ; -in other words , there would be men of character and industry but little ability ; there would also be men of some ability but no character and little industry . Both these varieties , and ...
... George the Thirds and George the Fourths ; -in other words , there would be men of character and industry but little ability ; there would also be men of some ability but no character and little industry . Both these varieties , and ...
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... George I and George II the sentiment of religious loyalty altogether ceased to support the Crown . The prerogative of the king had no strong party to support it ; the Tories , who naturally would support it , disliked the actual king ...
... George I and George II the sentiment of religious loyalty altogether ceased to support the Crown . The prerogative of the king had no strong party to support it ; the Tories , who naturally would support it , disliked the actual king ...
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... George III was a kind of ' consecrated ob- struction ' . Whatever he did had a sanctity different from what any one else did , and it perversely happened that he was commonly wrong . He had as good intentions as any one need have , and ...
... George III was a kind of ' consecrated ob- struction ' . Whatever he did had a sanctity different from what any one else did , and it perversely happened that he was commonly wrong . He had as good intentions as any one need have , and ...
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... George III had no social vices , but he had no social pleasures . He was a family man , and a man of business , and sincerely preferred a leg of mutton and turnips after a good day's work , to the best fashion and the most exciting talk ...
... George III had no social vices , but he had no social pleasures . He was a family man , and a man of business , and sincerely preferred a leg of mutton and turnips after a good day's work , to the best fashion and the most exciting talk ...
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... George I , nor George II , nor William IV were patterns of family merit ; George IV was a model of family demerit . The plain fact is , that to the disposition of all others most likely to go wrong , to an excitable disposition , the ...
... George I , nor George II , nor William IV were patterns of family merit ; George IV was a model of family demerit . The plain fact is , that to the disposition of all others most likely to go wrong , to an excitable disposition , the ...
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