The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Volumen4Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... England because England was a deferential country . I meant that the nominal constituency was not the real constituency ; that the mass of the " ten - pound " householders did not really form their own opinions , and did not exact of ...
... England because England was a deferential country . I meant that the nominal constituency was not the real constituency ; that the mass of the " ten - pound " householders did not really form their own opinions , and did not exact of ...
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... England new wealth is eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how quick , how willing , how anxious are the newly made rich to associate with the ancient rich . Rank probably in no country whatever has so much ...
... England new wealth is eager in its worship . Satirist after satirist has told us how quick , how willing , how anxious are the newly made rich to associate with the ancient rich . Rank probably in no country whatever has so much ...
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... England . of treaties . There being nothing practical in the Op- position , nothing likely to hamper them hereafter , the leaders of Opposition are nearly sure to suggest every objection . The thing is done and cannot be undone ; and ...
... England . of treaties . There being nothing practical in the Op- position , nothing likely to hamper them hereafter , the leaders of Opposition are nearly sure to suggest every objection . The thing is done and cannot be undone ; and ...
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... England has been im- posed upon that , as was said in one case , " The moral and the intellectual qualities have been divided " ; that " our negotiation had the moral , and the negotiation on the other side the intellectual , " and so ...
... England has been im- posed upon that , as was said in one case , " The moral and the intellectual qualities have been divided " ; that " our negotiation had the moral , and the negotiation on the other side the intellectual , " and so ...
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... risk a public debate . Despotic nations now cannot understand England : it is to them an anomaly " chartered by Providence " ; they have been time out of mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 31.
... risk a public debate . Despotic nations now cannot understand England : it is to them an anomaly " chartered by Providence " ; they have been time out of mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 31.
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Página 111 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 450 - It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association ; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully excluded.
Página 112 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Página 62 - It is said that at the end of the Cabinet which agreed to propose a fixed duty on corn, Lord Melbourne put his back to the door and said, 'Now is it to lower the price of corn or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Página 82 - ... small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be.
Página 59 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página 434 - The effect of the evidence derived from comparative jurisprudence is to establish that view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the Patriarchal Theory.
Página 450 - Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes...
Página 582 - Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense which has just been given to it, we may say that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable himself and to be more respected by those around him. To produce new things " serviceable to man's life and conducive to man's estate...
Página 576 - ... sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought "; it enables, them to do the good things they see to be good, as well as to see that they are good. And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality. A strongly idiosyncratic mind, violently disposed to extremes of opinion, is soon weeded out of political life, and a bodiless thinker, an ineffectual scholar, cannot even live there for a day. A vigorous moderateness in mind and body is the rule of a polity which...