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... popular emotions and convictions . But the reader of these pages will find , I think , a great deal more to surprise him in the shrewdness of the forecasts than in their occasional miscarriage . I have added to the longer studies some ...
... popular emotions and convictions . But the reader of these pages will find , I think , a great deal more to surprise him in the shrewdness of the forecasts than in their occasional miscarriage . I have added to the longer studies some ...
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... just in the same way , precisely as the most popular political paper is not that which is abstractedly the best or most instructive , but that which most exactly takes up the minds of men where it B 2 The Character of Sir Robert Peel . 3.
... just in the same way , precisely as the most popular political paper is not that which is abstractedly the best or most instructive , but that which most exactly takes up the minds of men where it B 2 The Character of Sir Robert Peel . 3.
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... popular community , imperiously bent on its own ideas , and to be the head of that community in shifting and changing times . Sir Robert was at Harrow with Lord Byron , who has left the characteristic reminiscence : ' I was always in ...
... popular community , imperiously bent on its own ideas , and to be the head of that community in shifting and changing times . Sir Robert was at Harrow with Lord Byron , who has left the characteristic reminiscence : ' I was always in ...
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... are to be set off against the many blessings of popular government . The keenest and most vigorous minds of every generation , minds often admirably fitted for the investigation of truth , The Character of Sir Robert Peel . 2 I.
... are to be set off against the many blessings of popular government . The keenest and most vigorous minds of every generation , minds often admirably fitted for the investigation of truth , The Character of Sir Robert Peel . 2 I.
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... popular and argumentative government . It is very possible for a con- scientious man , under a bureaucratic government , to co - operate with the rest of a council in the elaboration and execution of measures , many of which he thinks ...
... popular and argumentative government . It is very possible for a con- scientious man , under a bureaucratic government , to co - operate with the rest of a council in the elaboration and execution of measures , many of which he thinks ...
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