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... criticism . by persons who fear that the Constitution is being secretly undermined by the Sove- reign and her Ministers . In that controversy , some of the leading disputants have shown that they still need to be instructed as to the ...
... criticism . by persons who fear that the Constitution is being secretly undermined by the Sove- reign and her Ministers . In that controversy , some of the leading disputants have shown that they still need to be instructed as to the ...
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... critics ( Verax ' ) , in order to support his theories , finds himself compelled to saddle her with the pedantic notions of Baron Stockmar , which she probably never accepted , and which she certainly never attempted to put in practice ...
... critics ( Verax ' ) , in order to support his theories , finds himself compelled to saddle her with the pedantic notions of Baron Stockmar , which she probably never accepted , and which she certainly never attempted to put in practice ...
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... critic of the intricate and complicated foreign policy of the Government , and the foremost champion , recognised as such by all the world , of some of the cardinal principles of Justice and Freedom . A man who through all his life has ...
... critic of the intricate and complicated foreign policy of the Government , and the foremost champion , recognised as such by all the world , of some of the cardinal principles of Justice and Freedom . A man who through all his life has ...
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... affecting political affairs , and to become not the independent critics but the uncompromising advocates , the thick - and - thin supporters , of the policy of a party . What can be more melancholy than the The Editor of the ' Times . ' ...
... affecting political affairs , and to become not the independent critics but the uncompromising advocates , the thick - and - thin supporters , of the policy of a party . What can be more melancholy than the The Editor of the ' Times . ' ...
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... of English news- papers . Ceasing to be independent critics . of political affairs , guides and instructors on all important questions , active participants in the formation of sound opinion on the topics of 102 Politicians of To - day .
... of English news- papers . Ceasing to be independent critics . of political affairs , guides and instructors on all important questions , active participants in the formation of sound opinion on the topics of 102 Politicians of To - day .
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Page 81 - Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power...
Page 91 - ... final adoption of Free Trade ; the abolition of the taxes upon knowledge, of the religious disabilities of the Jews, of the restrictions on the borough franchise, and of the limitation of the University privileges; the disestablishment of the Irish Church ; the reform of the Irish land system ; ihe remodelling of the Army ; the adoption of the Ballot ; the introduction of a national system of 'Education; and the substitution of arbitration for war as a means of settling international controversies....
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Page 15 - To state the matter shortly, the sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
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Page 205 - His own life was to a large extent — I speak it with reverence and with hesitation — a sermon based upon that best, that greatest of all sermons. His was a life of perpetual selfsacrifice.
Page ix - In the case of Members of Parliament, I have wished to indicate to some extent the position they hold, and the reputation they enjoy in the House itself...