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... greatest of constitutional Monarchs ' the right to be consulted , the right to encourage , the right to warn . ' She has committed mistakes , of course . Her opinions at times may not have been the opinions of The Queen . 15.
... greatest of constitutional Monarchs ' the right to be consulted , the right to encourage , the right to warn . ' She has committed mistakes , of course . Her opinions at times may not have been the opinions of The Queen . 15.
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... greatest of those Jew statesmen who have from time to time . hired themselves out in the service of their Egyptian task - masters . Far be it from me to make this statement in any spirit of vulgar intolerance . Lord Beaconsfield belongs ...
... greatest of those Jew statesmen who have from time to time . hired themselves out in the service of their Egyptian task - masters . Far be it from me to make this statement in any spirit of vulgar intolerance . Lord Beaconsfield belongs ...
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... greatest in the world when England was yet the haunt of wild beasts and the home of naked savages ? Lord Beaconsfield has not even pre- tended to conceal the spirit in which he thus views us . The result is , that from his standpoint ...
... greatest in the world when England was yet the haunt of wild beasts and the home of naked savages ? Lord Beaconsfield has not even pre- tended to conceal the spirit in which he thus views us . The result is , that from his standpoint ...
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... greatest empire in the world , its unsurpassed material strength , its tradi- tions — which , to the European at least , are hardly second to those of any other of the races of mankind , -its very institutions , the slow growth of ...
... greatest empire in the world , its unsurpassed material strength , its tradi- tions — which , to the European at least , are hardly second to those of any other of the races of mankind , -its very institutions , the slow growth of ...
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... greatest factors in recent English history . Thus having really no one with . whom to compare him - and I cannot find among the statesmen of the past the true prototype of Mr. Gladstone - I am com- pelled to consider him simply as he is ...
... greatest factors in recent English history . Thus having really no one with . whom to compare him - and I cannot find among the statesmen of the past the true prototype of Mr. Gladstone - I am com- pelled to consider him simply as he is ...
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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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