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... peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in- fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that ...
... peers have , from their great possessions , great electioneering in- fluence , but , as a whole , the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force . It has so many poor men inside it , and so many rich men outside it , that ...
Página xxx
... peers , and were still more largely supposed to be held by them , were swept away with a tumult of delight ; and in another similar time of great excitement , the Lords themselves , if they deserve it , might pass away . The democratic ...
... peers , and were still more largely supposed to be held by them , were swept away with a tumult of delight ; and in another similar time of great excitement , the Lords themselves , if they deserve it , might pass away . The democratic ...
Página xxxi
... peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers , young and old , clever and not clever , is much better where it is . The selfish instinct of the mass of peers on this point is a keener and more exact judge of the real ...
... peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers , young and old , clever and not clever , is much better where it is . The selfish instinct of the mass of peers on this point is a keener and more exact judge of the real ...
Página xxxii
... peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for making them , I need not repeat . average . But in the present English world such a Xxxii ...
... peers , Lord Derby , when leader of that party , desired to create them . As I have given in this book what seemed to me good reasons for making them , I need not repeat . average . But in the present English world such a Xxxii ...
Página xxxii
... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , “ We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
... peers ( for they are very few ) might say , “ We had rather not have our peerage if we are to buy it at the price of yielding . " But a life peer who had fought his way up to the peers , would never think so . Young men who are born to ...
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