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... there are too many objections to it . A responsible Minister would hardly face Parliament with it . First . It would alter the penny , and the penny is the unit A UNIVERSAL MONEY 41 The indistinct manner in which this 40 A UNIVERSAL MONEY.
... there are too many objections to it . A responsible Minister would hardly face Parliament with it . First . It would alter the penny , and the penny is the unit A UNIVERSAL MONEY 41 The indistinct manner in which this 40 A UNIVERSAL MONEY.
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... Minister who shall undertake to adjust them to ot expressible in pennies will have a hard task A change to the French system of reckoning hat must be made at once . There can be no e ; the two systems of reckoning cannot be used ither ...
... Minister who shall undertake to adjust them to ot expressible in pennies will have a hard task A change to the French system of reckoning hat must be made at once . There can be no e ; the two systems of reckoning cannot be used ither ...
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... minister , and the two held him up , having their hands under his armpits . His feeble voice was barely audible . But his reverend countenance , especially his long white locks , formed a picture never to be forgotten . There was a vast ...
... minister , and the two held him up , having their hands under his armpits . His feeble voice was barely audible . But his reverend countenance , especially his long white locks , formed a picture never to be forgotten . There was a vast ...
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... Minister will hardly be contended ; and some , among whom the present writer is to be counted , have grave doubts ... Minister is particularly trammelled . In great ca Prime Minister and perhaps THE EARL OF CLARENDON 89.
... Minister will hardly be contended ; and some , among whom the present writer is to be counted , have grave doubts ... Minister is particularly trammelled . In great ca Prime Minister and perhaps THE EARL OF CLARENDON 89.
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... Minister it would be an intoler exactly because Lord Clarendon had a limits of his power , that he was so tru influential . In one respect we are not inclined praise which within the last few days 1 ceived . He has been greatly praised ...
... Minister it would be an intoler exactly because Lord Clarendon had a limits of his power , that he was so tru influential . In one respect we are not inclined praise which within the last few days 1 ceived . He has been greatly praised ...
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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