The English ConstitutionT. Nelson, 1919 - 300 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 75
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 ...
Página xxvii
... 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 ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
administration American arguments aristocracy assembly authority better Bill cabinet government chamber choose classes committee constitutional monarch critical Crown defect despotic difficulty discussion duty eager educated effect elected electors England English Constitution evil executive Executive Government fact feeling foreign free government function George George III give greatest head hereditary House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers imagine influence interest king leader legislation legislature liament look Lord Palmerston matter ment mind minister ministry monarch nation nature never opinion organisation Parlia Parliament parliamentary government party peculiar peers perhaps persons plutocracy political popular premier present President presidential government presidential system principle Queen questions Reform Act royalty rule rulers Sir George Lewis society sort sovereign speak statesmen stitution sure theory things thought tion Tory treaty truth vote Whig whole wish