The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, Volumen5Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... principle which we want special and very active legislatures by up everywhere old customary laws ; must be a unity based on explicit tre ments . But the idea is the same . T see one Code de Commerce , and one m We are , as yet , very ...
... principle which we want special and very active legislatures by up everywhere old customary laws ; must be a unity based on explicit tre ments . But the idea is the same . T see one Code de Commerce , and one m We are , as yet , very ...
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... principle applies to reckoning on paper , which is , though it may not seem so , really more important than paying by coin . The use of arithmetic applies not only to actual business , but to contemplated business . If a merchant begins ...
... principle applies to reckoning on paper , which is , though it may not seem so , really more important than paying by coin . The use of arithmetic applies not only to actual business , but to contemplated business . If a merchant begins ...
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... principles which should regulate an International Coinage . We have now to examine the practical proposals that have been put forward : we must see how far they accord with the principles , and how far they would ensure the promised ad ...
... principles which should regulate an International Coinage . We have now to examine the practical proposals that have been put forward : we must see how far they accord with the principles , and how far they would ensure the promised ad ...
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... principle . The proposal of the Conference of Paris that France should coin a 25 - franc piece , and leave the rest of the French currency as it is , and that the English should alter their sovereign by 2d . , and leave the rest of ...
... principle . The proposal of the Conference of Paris that France should coin a 25 - franc piece , and leave the rest of the French currency as it is , and that the English should alter their sovereign by 2d . , and leave the rest of ...
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... principle and well - arranged thought . And this is the whole education that most barristers receive . But the education of barristers is not the only legal educa- tion in this country . It is not even the education of the larger half ...
... principle and well - arranged thought . And this is the whole education that most barristers receive . But the education of barristers is not the only legal educa- tion in this country . It is not even the education of the larger half ...
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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