The English ConstitutionKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 292 páginas |
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Página xxii
... argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few ...
... argument is not required to guide the public , still less a formal exposition of that argument . What is mostly needed is the manly utterance of clear conclusions ; if a statesman gives these in a felicitous way ( and if with a few ...
Página xxxiii
... argument for it , but you cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal ...
... argument for it , but you cannot make a loud argument , an argument which would reach and rule the multitude . The thing looks like injustice , and in a time of popular passion it would not stand . Much short of the compulsory equal ...
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... arguments which come to nothing - heavy speeches which precede no motion - abstract disquisitions which leave visible things where they were . But all men heed great results , and a change of government is a great result . It has a hun ...
... arguments which come to nothing - heavy speeches which precede no motion - abstract disquisitions which leave visible things where they were . But all men heed great results , and a change of government is a great result . It has a hun ...
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... arguments . But under a presidential govern- ment , a nation has , except at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its virtue is gone , and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns ...
... arguments . But under a presidential govern- ment , a nation has , except at the electing moment , no influence ; it has not the ballot - box before it ; its virtue is gone , and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns ...
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Walter Bagehot. Lincoln , there would have been good writing and fine argument in the Washington newspapers . But the Washington newspapers can no more remove a president during his term of place than the Times can remove a lord mayor ...
Walter Bagehot. Lincoln , there would have been good writing and fine argument in the Washington newspapers . But the Washington newspapers can no more remove a president during his term of place than the Times can remove a lord mayor ...
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