The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., المجلد 31891 |
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... it amounts to saying that government by means of a Cabinet is impossible . The object of a committee of - * " Gladstone on Church and State . " that kind is to agree on certain conclusions ; if 24 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
... it amounts to saying that government by means of a Cabinet is impossible . The object of a committee of - * " Gladstone on Church and State . " that kind is to agree on certain conclusions ; if 24 THE TRAVELERS INS . CO.'S BAGEHOT .
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... object to measures they approve , to appear to have an accu- rate opinion on points on which they really have no opinion . The calling of a constitutional statesman is very much that of a political advocate : he receives a new brief ...
... object to measures they approve , to appear to have an accu- rate opinion on points on which they really have no opinion . The calling of a constitutional statesman is very much that of a political advocate : he receives a new brief ...
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... object as determinate . - Mr. Brougham did not understate his case . " There is one branch of the argument which I shall pass over altogether , I mean the amount of the dis- tresses which are now universally admitted to prevail over ...
... object as determinate . - Mr. Brougham did not understate his case . " There is one branch of the argument which I shall pass over altogether , I mean the amount of the dis- tresses which are now universally admitted to prevail over ...
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... object to the kind of " knowledge " then most sought after : but there can be no doubt that those who then labored in its behalf must be praised for having inculcated , in the horrid heat of the day , as a boring paradox what is now a ...
... object to the kind of " knowledge " then most sought after : but there can be no doubt that those who then labored in its behalf must be praised for having inculcated , in the horrid heat of the day , as a boring paradox what is now a ...
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... object of government persecution , astonishing the auditory , and his fellow - lawyers no less , with the freshness and power of his eloquence . A fair contrast with this history of a day in early life would be that of one at a more ...
... object of government persecution , astonishing the auditory , and his fellow - lawyers no less , with the freshness and power of his eloquence . A fair contrast with this history of a day in early life would be that of one at a more ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.