The English ConstitutionHenry S. King & Company, 1872 - 291 páginas |
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... mean that the ten - pound householders were great admirers of intellect or good judges of refine- ment . We all know that , for the most part , they were not so at all : very few Englishmen are . They were not influenced by ideas , but ...
... mean that the ten - pound householders were great admirers of intellect or good judges of refine- ment . We all know that , for the most part , they were not so at all : very few Englishmen are . They were not influenced by ideas , but ...
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... means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in theory was omnipotent , was the only class financially ill - treated . Throughout the history of our former Parliaments the constituency could no more have originated ...
... means were exceedingly small . Curiously enough the class which in theory was omnipotent , was the only class financially ill - treated . Throughout the history of our former Parliaments the constituency could no more have originated ...
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... means of expressing them . We used to frame elaborate schemes to give them such means . But the Reform Act of 1867 did not stop at skilled labour ; it enfranchised unskilled labour too . And no one will contend that the ordinary working ...
... means of expressing them . We used to frame elaborate schemes to give them such means . But the Reform Act of 1867 did not stop at skilled labour ; it enfranchised unskilled labour too . And no one will contend that the ordinary working ...
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... mean that statesmen can choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have ...
... mean that statesmen can choose with absolute freedom what topics they will deal with , and what they will not . I am , of course , aware that they choose under stringent conditions . In excited states of the public mind they have ...
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... the suffrage ) supreme in the country ; and that their supremacy , in the state they now are , means the supremacy of igno- rance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge . So INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxi.
... the suffrage ) supreme in the country ; and that their supremacy , in the state they now are , means the supremacy of igno- rance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge . So INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxi.
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