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... judge whether it should be so by a comparison of that advan- tage with other advantages . The real question is simple ; it is only this : Which is more important for a new international coin - an easily ex- pressible relation to the ...
... judge whether it should be so by a comparison of that advan- tage with other advantages . The real question is simple ; it is only this : Which is more important for a new international coin - an easily ex- pressible relation to the ...
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... judge for himself . The real objection is that after all this plan does not com- bine ; it leaves us with two moneys ; but if all the nations of the world gradually joined either the Latin coinage league or the Teutonic coinage league ...
... judge for himself . The real objection is that after all this plan does not com- bine ; it leaves us with two moneys ; but if all the nations of the world gradually joined either the Latin coinage league or the Teutonic coinage league ...
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... judges . Such a varied life and experience belong to very few men , and his social nature - at once accessible and assailant- -was just the one to take advantage of it . He seemed to be lucky all through : in childhood he remembered ...
... judges . Such a varied life and experience belong to very few men , and his social nature - at once accessible and assailant- -was just the one to take advantage of it . He seemed to be lucky all through : in childhood he remembered ...
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... judge , but Leblanc was never Solicitor - General ; nor , prob- ably , is Rolfe yet at the end of his career . One ... judges on the Bench . He is one of the few with whom I have kept up an acquaintance . " " 2 Of course , these stories ...
... judge , but Leblanc was never Solicitor - General ; nor , prob- ably , is Rolfe yet at the end of his career . One ... judges on the Bench . He is one of the few with whom I have kept up an acquaintance . " " 2 Of course , these stories ...
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... judges on the bench who , unless they are much belied , also know very little — perhaps none . And a man who can intelli- gently read Kant , like Mr. Robinson , need not fear the book- work of English law . A very little serious study ...
... judges on the bench who , unless they are much belied , also know very little — perhaps none . And a man who can intelli- gently read Kant , like Mr. Robinson , need not fear the book- work of English law . A very little serious study ...
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Página 102 - 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 182 - 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 249 - 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 355 - 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 158 - 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 179 - 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 138 - 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 362 - 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 353 - 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 230 - 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