The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Հատոր 31891 |
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... English nature . The mere fact of such a premier being endured shows how deeply the whole national spirit and interest was absorbed in the contest with Napoleon , how little we understood the sort of man who should regulate its conduct ...
... English nature . The mere fact of such a premier being endured shows how deeply the whole national spirit and interest was absorbed in the contest with Napoleon , how little we understood the sort of man who should regulate its conduct ...
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... English government would never repay him his loss in Russia ; and he endeavored to find some Cabinet minister to shoot as a compensation . Lord Eldon lived under the belief that he had nearly been the victim himself , and told some ...
... English government would never repay him his loss in Russia ; and he endeavored to find some Cabinet minister to shoot as a compensation . Lord Eldon lived under the belief that he had nearly been the victim himself , and told some ...
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... English society ,. which , from their habits of reading and non - reading , may be called par excellence the " Scriptural classes . " The routine harshness of a not very wise executive did not mitigate the feeling : the modus operandi ...
... English society ,. which , from their habits of reading and non - reading , may be called par excellence the " Scriptural classes . " The routine harshness of a not very wise executive did not mitigate the feeling : the modus operandi ...
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... English Constitution has provided that there shall always be one estate raised above the storms of passion and controversy , which all parties may respect and honor , -the king is to be loved ; but this theory requires , for a real ...
... English Constitution has provided that there shall always be one estate raised above the storms of passion and controversy , which all parties may respect and honor , -the king is to be loved ; but this theory requires , for a real ...
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The Works of Walter Bagehot ... with Memoirs by R.H. Hutton: Now ..., Հատոր 3 Walter Bagehot Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1891 |
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Էջ 380 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
Էջ 278 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
Էջ 106 - ... or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm...
Էջ 40 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
Էջ 105 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
Էջ 299 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
Էջ 278 - His reputation as a Professor was accordingly raised very high, and a multitude of students from a great distance resorted to the University, merely upon his account. Those branches of science which he taught became fashionable at this place, and his opinions were the chief topics of discussion in clubs and literary societies. Even the small peculiarities in his pronunciation or manner of speaking, became frequently the objects of imitation.
Էջ 202 - His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination has often been heated and exhausted with his body, in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night; and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic Bacchanals.
Էջ 174 - Once more thy beauty its full lustre wear ; Moved by his love, by his example taught, Soon shall thy soul, once more with virtue fraught, With kind and generous truth thy bosom warm, And thy fair mind, like thy fair person, charm. To virtue thus and to thyself restored, By all admired, by one alone adored, Be to thy Harry ever kind and true, And live for him who more than dies for you.
Էջ 302 - I shall be accused of going too far, when I say, that he was scarcely ever known to start a new topic himself, or to appear unprepared upon those topics that were introduced by others. Indeed, his conversation was never more amusing than when he gave a loose to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines.