The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Том 4Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... greater because a writer who deals with a liv- ing government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of ...
... greater because a writer who deals with a liv- ing government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of ...
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... greater wants . If the first work of the poor voters is to try to create a " poor - man's Paradise , " as poor men are apt to fancy that Paradise , and as they are apt to think they can create it , the great political trial now ...
... greater wants . If the first work of the poor voters is to try to create a " poor - man's Paradise , " as poor men are apt to fancy that Paradise , and as they are apt to think they can create it , the great political trial now ...
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... guidance . Much of the change which might have been expected from the Act of 1832 was held in suspense , and did not begin till that measure had been followed by another of similar and greater THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 15.
... guidance . Much of the change which might have been expected from the Act of 1832 was held in suspense , and did not begin till that measure had been followed by another of similar and greater THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 15.
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Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. measure had been followed by another of similar and greater power . The work which the Duke of Wellington in part performed has now , therefore , to be completed also . He met the half - difficulty ; we ...
Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. measure had been followed by another of similar and greater power . The work which the Duke of Wellington in part performed has now , therefore , to be completed also . He met the half - difficulty ; we ...
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... greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords than they would have if the House of Lords were abol- ished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers ...
... greater influence over society while there is still a House of Lords than they would have if the House of Lords were abol- ished ; and that though one or two clever young peers might do better in the Commons , the whole order of peers ...
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Стр. 111 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Стр. 450 - It is supposed, that by the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association ; that he not only thus apprises the Reader that certain classes of ideas and expressions will be found in his book, but that others will be carefully excluded.
Стр. 112 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Стр. 62 - It is said that at the end of the Cabinet which agreed to propose a fixed duty on corn, Lord Melbourne put his back to the door and said, 'Now is it to lower the price of corn or isn't it? It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Стр. 82 - ... small indeed. But no feeling could be more like common human nature as it is, and as it is likely to be.
Стр. 59 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Стр. 434 - The effect of the evidence derived from comparative jurisprudence is to establish that view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the Patriarchal Theory.
Стр. 450 - Claudian ; and in our own country, in the age of Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise which, by the act of writing in verse, an Author in the present day makes...
Стр. 582 - Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense which has just been given to it, we may say that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable himself and to be more respected by those around him. To produce new things " serviceable to man's life and conducive to man's estate...
Стр. 576 - ... sickly them o'er with the pale cast of thought "; it enables, them to do the good things they see to be good, as well as to see that they are good. And it is plain that a government by popular discussion tends to produce this quality. A strongly idiosyncratic mind, violently disposed to extremes of opinion, is soon weeded out of political life, and a bodiless thinker, an ineffectual scholar, cannot even live there for a day. A vigorous moderateness in mind and body is the rule of a polity which...