The English ConstitutionDolphin Books, 1872 - 309 páginas |
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... peers might do better in the Commons , the old 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 old 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 ...
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... 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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... peers , and so there are no life - peers . The House of Lords rejected the in- estimable , the unprecedented opportunity of being tacitly reformed . Such a chance does not come twice . The life - peers who would have been then ...
... peers , and so there are no life - peers . The House of Lords rejected the in- estimable , the unprecedented opportunity of being tacitly reformed . Such a chance does not come twice . The life - peers who would have been then ...
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