The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., Հատոր 31891 |
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... wish to know new truth . The purchaser desires an article which he can appreciate at sight ; which he can lay " Burke is right after all [ about the French Revolution ] ; but Burke is often right - only he is right too soon " ( Bell's ...
... wish to know new truth . The purchaser desires an article which he can appreciate at sight ; which he can lay " Burke is right after all [ about the French Revolution ] ; but Burke is often right - only he is right too soon " ( Bell's ...
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... for an Essay on Conversation , " " never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid . " - ED . " " * were aggrieved when Mr. Disraeli was made THE CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . 5.
... for an Essay on Conversation , " " never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid . " - ED . " " * were aggrieved when Mr. Disraeli was made THE CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . 5.
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... wish you could go into Parlia- ment to represent yourself ; you must conform to the opinions of the electors , and they , depend on it , will not be original . In a word , as has been most wisely observed , " under free institutions it ...
... wish you could go into Parlia- ment to represent yourself ; you must conform to the opinions of the electors , and they , depend on it , will not be original . In a word , as has been most wisely observed , " under free institutions it ...
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... wish to see plain sense applied to the most prominent part of practical life . In his later career , the second Sir Robert Peel was the statesman who most completely and thoroughly expressed the sentiments of this new dynasty ; instead ...
... wish to see plain sense applied to the most prominent part of practical life . In his later career , the second Sir Robert Peel was the statesman who most completely and thoroughly expressed the sentiments of this new dynasty ; instead ...
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... wishes to govern a distant prov- ince , he sends down a satrap on a grand horse , with other people on little horses ; and very little is heard of the satrap again unless he send back some of the little people to tell what he has been ...
... wishes to govern a distant prov- ince , he sends down a satrap on a grand horse , with other people on little horses ; and very little is heard of the satrap again unless he send back some of the little people to tell what he has been ...
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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.