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... elected body , but by a self - electing committee of old gentlemen . There is a floating idea that these Inns secure the sociability of the students and Bar . But there is little enough of that in dinners where people speak little ...
... elected body , but by a self - electing committee of old gentlemen . There is a floating idea that these Inns secure the sociability of the students and Bar . But there is little enough of that in dinners where people speak little ...
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... elected , and I of course ceased to have any hold upon the place , or chance of being elected there . But for years I had the deepest conviction that I should be " Member for Bridgwater " ; and no amount of reasoning would get it out of ...
... elected , and I of course ceased to have any hold upon the place , or chance of being elected there . But for years I had the deepest conviction that I should be " Member for Bridgwater " ; and no amount of reasoning would get it out of ...
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... elected assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true ...
... elected assembly of rich men were thwarted by a nominated assembly of talkers and writers . Sensible men of substantial means are what we wish to be ruled by , and a peerage of genius would not compare with it in power . It is true ...
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... elected from a limited const contain so many sections of opinion ; they and fewer species of irritability . But the Republic were disorderly in the extreme . was not possible in it . There was not an. 146 THE ENGLISH CONSTIT.
... elected from a limited const contain so many sections of opinion ; they and fewer species of irritability . But the Republic were disorderly in the extreme . was not possible in it . There was not an. 146 THE ENGLISH CONSTIT.
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... elected in one way , at one time , and Congress ( no matter which House ) is elected in another way , at another time . The two have nothing to bind them together , and in matter of fact , they continually disagree . This was written in ...
... elected in one way , at one time , and Congress ( no matter which House ) is elected in another way , at another time . The two have nothing to bind them together , and in matter of fact , they continually disagree . This was written in ...
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Página 100 - A hot flash seems to burn across the brain. Men in these intense states of mind have altered all history, changed for better or worse the creed of myriads, and desolated or redeemed provinces and ages. Nor is this intensity a sign of truth, for it is precisely strongest in
Página 180 - despot) which branded him as an object of mingled fear and dislike. " If we carry our eyes back from historical to legendary Greece, we find a picture the reverse of what has been here sketched. We discern a government in which there is little or no scheme or system, still less any idea of
Página 247 - a year, its power will be less year by year, and at last be gone, as so much kingly power is gone—no one knows how. Its danger is not in assassination, but atrophy ; not abolition, but decline. No. V. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Página 353 - the time. It would not have suited the ante-Tudor kings to have had a fictitious assembly; they would have lost their sole feeler, their only instrument for discovering national opinion. Nor could they have manufactured such an assembly if they wished. The instrument in that behalf is the centralised executive, and there was then no
Página 156 - if I may say so, an ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.
Página 177 - would be elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest man in the country. The vice-presidentship being a sinecure, a second-rate man agreeable to the wire-pullers is always smuggled in. The chance of succession to the presidentship is too distant to be thought of.
Página 136 - condemned as injudicious or corrupt . ' Blessed are the peace-makers' is, I suppose, to be understood in the other world, for in this they are frequently cursed." And this is very often the view taken now in England of treaties. There being nothing practical in the Opposition—nothing likely to hamper them
Página 360 - of corporations. And it was natural, that in France, where there is scarcely any power of self-organisation in the people, where the prt'fet must be asked upon every subject, and take the initiative in every movement, a solitary thinker should be repelled from the exaggerations of which he knew the evil, to the contrary exaggeration of which he did not.
Página 351 - he might do, and what he might not do. If he much mistook this, there was a rebellion. There are, as is well known, three great periods in the English Constitution. The first of these is the ante-Tudor period. The English Parliament then seemed to be gaining
Página 228 - some most remarkable occasions. But it has been by a good deal of management. " Upon the important occasion and question now before the House, I propose to endeavour to induce them to avoid to involve the country in the additional difficulties of a difference of opinion, possibly a dispute