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... mass of excellent information , which will enable those who wish to form a sound judgment to attain it without real difficulty . As yet in England this question has never ad- vanced to a practical stage ; it has been a favourite with ...
... mass of excellent information , which will enable those who wish to form a sound judgment to attain it without real difficulty . As yet in England this question has never ad- vanced to a practical stage ; it has been a favourite with ...
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... mass of foreign traders do not comprehend our price language . We have to pay the cost of their learning it . Some few know it , -few , that is , in comparison with the mass of men , —and they make a kind of monopoly — a source of ...
... mass of foreign traders do not comprehend our price language . We have to pay the cost of their learning it . Some few know it , -few , that is , in comparison with the mass of men , —and they make a kind of monopoly — a source of ...
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... mass of resi- dents in every country will say " We do not trade abroad ; we do not travel abroad ; we can use our native currency very well ; why should we change it ? Why should we learn a new system ? We do not care about foreign ...
... mass of resi- dents in every country will say " We do not trade abroad ; we do not travel abroad ; we can use our native currency very well ; why should we change it ? Why should we learn a new system ? We do not care about foreign ...
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... mass of English people to take the French coinage , or the mass of French to take the English , we shall not prevail ; the French will say " We will not yield to England ; " the English will say " We will not yield to France " . Any ...
... mass of English people to take the French coinage , or the mass of French to take the English , we shall not prevail ; the French will say " We will not yield to England ; " the English will say " We will not yield to France " . Any ...
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... mass of men . every sovereign you might have a old twopence ! " and there would lightened opinion to resist the mo points you must never expect muc many able minds which take part i the knowledge , few the leisure , an calmness to ...
... mass of men . every sovereign you might have a old twopence ! " and there would lightened opinion to resist the mo points you must never expect muc many able minds which take part i the knowledge , few the leisure , an calmness to ...
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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