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... influence ; each year removes many old men , makes all others older , brings in many new . The transition is so gradual that we hardly perceive it . The board of directors of the poli- tical company has a few slight changes every year ...
... influence ; each year removes many old men , makes all others older , brings in many new . The transition is so gradual that we hardly perceive it . The board of directors of the poli- tical company has a few slight changes every year ...
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... influence in many boroughs and counties the Lords nominated a considerable part of the Commons ; the majority of the other part were the richer gentry - men in most respects like the Lords , and sympathising with the Lords . Under the ...
... influence in many boroughs and counties the Lords nominated a considerable part of the Commons ; the majority of the other part were the richer gentry - men in most respects like the Lords , and sympathising with the Lords . Under the ...
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... influence within a year or two of 1867. The complete consequences of the Act of 1832 upon the House of Lords could not be seen while the Commons were subject to such aristocratic guidance . Much of the change which might have been ...
... influence within a year or two of 1867. The complete consequences of the Act of 1832 upon the House of Lords could not be seen while the Commons were subject to such aristocratic guidance . Much of the change which might have been ...
Página xxix
... influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men collectively ; it is an influence which most men - at least most Englishmen - feel very much , but of which most Englishmen are somewhat ashamed . Accordingly , when any ...
... influence of rank to work much more on men singly than on men collectively ; it is an influence which most men - at least most Englishmen - feel very much , but of which most Englishmen are somewhat ashamed . Accordingly , when any ...
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... influence is not absent . The overt elec- tioneering power of the Lords does not at all equal its real social power . The English plutocracy , as is often said of something yet coarser , must be " humoured not drove ; " they may easily ...
... influence is not absent . The overt elec- tioneering power of the Lords does not at all equal its real social power . The English plutocracy , as is often said of something yet coarser , must be " humoured not drove ; " they may easily ...
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