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Page vii
... side in his representations things which never were con- temporaneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments.
... side in his representations things which never were con- temporaneous in reality . The difficulty is the greater because a writer who deals with a living government naturally compares it with the most important other living governments.
Page viii
Walter Bagehot. naturally compares it with the most important other living governments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of illustration are altered probably in a different way ...
Walter Bagehot. naturally compares it with the most important other living governments , and these are changing too ; what he illustrates are altered in one way , and his sources of illustration are altered probably in a different way ...
Page xii
... important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the great evident ...
... important an in- novation as the Reform Act of 1867 will not have very great effects . It must , in all likelihood , have many great ones . I am only saying that as yet we do not know what those effects are ; that the great evident ...
Page xxi
... important as the selection of these questions . It is for our principal statesmen to lead the public , and not to let the public lead them . No doubt when statesmen live by public favour , as ours do , this is a hard saying , and it ...
... important as the selection of these questions . It is for our principal statesmen to lead the public , and not to let the public lead them . No doubt when statesmen live by public favour , as ours do , this is a hard saying , and it ...
Page xxii
... important truth . And so he will both guide and benefit the nation . But if , especially at a time when great ignorance has an unusual power in public affairs , he chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is ...
... important truth . And so he will both guide and benefit the nation . But if , especially at a time when great ignorance has an unusual power in public affairs , he chooses to accept and reiterate the decisions of that ignorance , he is ...
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