The English Constitution: And Other Political EssaysD. Appleton, 1914 - 468 páginas |
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... perhaps the only severely - taxed man in the country . He paid the rates , the tea , sugar , tobacco , malt , and spirit taxes , as well as the income tax , but his means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in ...
... perhaps the only severely - taxed man in the country . He paid the rates , the tea , sugar , tobacco , malt , and spirit taxes , as well as the income tax , but his means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in ...
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... perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it ...
... perhaps most of the intelligent Conservatives , were fearful of the consequences of the proposal ; but as it was made by the heads of their own party , they did not like to oppose it , and the discipline of party carried them with it ...
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... perhaps be astonished at the small degree in which it contributes to the active part of our governing Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ...
... perhaps be astonished at the small degree in which it contributes to the active part of our governing Assembly . The spirit of our present House of Commons is plutocratic , not aristocratic ; its most prominent statesmen are not men of ...
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... perhaps their superiors , in wealth , their equals in culture , and their inferiors only in descent and rank . The possessors of the " material " distinctions of life , as a political economist would class them , rush to worship those ...
... perhaps their superiors , in wealth , their equals in culture , and their inferiors only in descent and rank . The possessors of the " material " distinctions of life , as a political economist would class them , rush to worship those ...
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... perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . This was the most striking instance of disunion between the President and the Congress that has ever yet occurred , and which probably will ever ...
... perhaps scarcely any nation , could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly . This was the most striking instance of disunion between the President and the Congress that has ever yet occurred , and which probably will ever ...
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