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... classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave X INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... classes ; that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave X INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
Page xi
Walter Bagehot. that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave those representatives much license ... class to INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xi.
Walter Bagehot. that they preferred representatives from those classes , and gave those representatives much license ... class to INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xi.
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Walter Bagehot. So fully was this so , that the class to whom the great body of the ten - pound householders belonged -- the lower middle class - was above all classes the one most hardly treated in the imposition of the taxes . A small ...
Walter Bagehot. So fully was this so , that the class to whom the great body of the ten - pound householders belonged -- the lower middle class - was above all classes the one most hardly treated in the imposition of the taxes . A small ...
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... classes , but they were incompetent to do more . The grave question now is , How far will this peculiar old system continue and how far will it be altered ? I am afraid I must put aside at once the idea that it will be altered entirely ...
... classes , but they were incompetent to do more . The grave question now is , How far will this peculiar old system continue and how far will it be altered ? I am afraid I must put aside at once the idea that it will be altered entirely ...
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... class less needing to be guided by their betters than the old class ; on the contrary , the new class need it more than the old . The real question is , Will they submit to it , will they defer in the same way to wealth and rank , and ...
... class less needing to be guided by their betters than the old class ; on the contrary , the new class need it more than the old . The real question is , Will they submit to it , will they defer in the same way to wealth and rank , and ...
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