The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1909 - 300 páginas |
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... course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects ...
... course I am not arguing that so important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects ...
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... course mean that the ten - pound house- holders were great admirers of intellect or good judges of refinement . We all know that , for the most part , they were not so at all : very few Englishmen are . They were not influenced by ideas ...
... course mean that the ten - pound house- holders were great admirers of intellect or good judges of refinement . We all know that , for the most part , they were not so at all : very few Englishmen are . They were not influenced by ideas ...
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... course 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 ...
... course 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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... course lay this down as an unvarying rule ; as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are not genuine , if they do not embody the opinion ...
... course lay this down as an unvarying rule ; as I have said , I have for practical purposes no belief in unvarying rules . Majorities may be either genuine or fictitious , and if they are not genuine , if they do not embody the opinion ...
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... course there have been many countries in which certain old families , whether rich or poor , were worshipped by whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage ; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families ...
... course there have been many countries in which certain old families , whether rich or poor , were worshipped by whole populations with a more intense and poetic homage ; but I doubt if there has ever been any in which all old families ...
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