... ruler before the occasion. The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required — are impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham... The English Constitution - Página 94por Walter Bagehot - 1873 - 351 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 páginas
...impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham — a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the...great occasion, and by a natural, legal mode brought in to rule. But even in England, at what was the nearest to a great sudden crisis which we have had... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1893 - 550 páginas
...of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman—to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the...excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution—a representative man above all men fit for a great occasion, and by a natural, legal mode... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1901 - 486 páginas
...impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in every-day politics than a Chatham — a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the...attained maturity, that we hardly appreciate this latter excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution — a representative man above... | |
| 1901 - 484 páginas
...impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in every-day politics than a Chatham — a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the...attained maturity, that we hardly appreciate this latter excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution — a representative man above... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - 1906 - 696 páginas
...impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham; a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the...catastrophes since our Constitution attained maturity that we can hardly appreciate this latent excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution —... | |
| Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 622 páginas
...impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham; a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the...catastrophes since our Constitution attained maturity that we can hardly appreciate this latent excellence. We have not needed a Cavour to rule a revolution —... | |
| Eu-Yang Kwang - 1922 - 232 páginas
...Parliament can choose a ruler for the occasion. They can change the helmsman to meet a great crisis — to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm. Presidential government, on the other hand, does not provide for an easy change of the executive so... | |
| Bagehot - 2001 - 300 páginas
...- in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham - a LouisPhilippe far better than a Napoleon. By the structure of the...great occasion, and by a natural, legal mode brought in to rule. But even in England, at what was the nearest to a great sudden crisis which we have had... | |
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