The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 292 páginas |
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Página xix
... mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political ques- tion it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ...
... mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political ques- tion it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it ; it almost never settles its topics ...
Página xxi
... mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with . But , upon the other hand , in quiet times statesmen have great power ; when there is no fire ...
... mind they have scarcely a discretion at all ; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with . But , upon the other hand , in quiet times statesmen have great power ; when there is no fire ...
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... mind . Whether or not the nation has made up its mind is a question to be decided by all the circumstances of the case , and in the common way in which all practical questions are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of ...
... mind . Whether or not the nation has made up its mind is a question to be decided by all the circumstances of the case , and in the common way in which all practical questions are decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of ...
Página xxxv
... curve if we engross our minds with its cusps and conjugate points . Nor , on the other hand , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . XXXV.
... curve if we engross our minds with its cusps and conjugate points . Nor , on the other hand , can I sympathise with the objection to life peerages which some of the Radical party INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . XXXV.
Página xlviii
... mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed at its statesmen , and angry at its newspapers . A little more of such perplexity and such vexation does not seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant , as it often is meant , that the whole ...
... mind puzzled by its institutions , vexed at its statesmen , and angry at its newspapers . A little more of such perplexity and such vexation does not seem to me a great evil . And if it be meant , as it often is meant , that the whole ...
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