The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Том 4Travelers Insurance Company, 1891 |
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... . At the last election the trial of the new system hardly be- gan , and as far as it did begin it was favored by a peculiar guidance . In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 9.
... . At the last election the trial of the new system hardly be- gan , and as far as it did begin it was favored by a peculiar guidance . In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION . 9.
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Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and like- wise the greatest duty . They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise ; to guide ...
Walter Bagehot Forrest Morgan. In the mean time our statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and like- wise the greatest duty . They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise ; to guide ...
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... greatest , I conceive , is that they will neg- lect the lesson . In plain English , what I fear is that both our political parties will bid for the support of the workingman ; that both of them will promise to do as he likes if he will ...
... greatest , I conceive , is that they will neg- lect the lesson . In plain English , what I fear is that both our political parties will bid for the support of the workingman ; that both of them will promise to do as he likes if he will ...
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... greatest wisdom and the greatest foresight in the higher classes . They must avoid not only every evil , but every appearance of evil ; while they have still the power , they must remove not only every actual grievance , but where it is ...
... greatest wisdom and the greatest foresight in the higher classes . They must avoid not only every evil , but every appearance of evil ; while they have still the power , they must remove not only every actual grievance , but where it is ...
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... greatest international ob- ligations without consulting either Parliament or the country . No other select committee has any compar- able power ; and considering how carefully we have fettered and limited the powers of all other subordi ...
... greatest international ob- ligations without consulting either Parliament or the country . No other select committee has any compar- able power ; and considering how carefully we have fettered and limited the powers of all other subordi ...
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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...