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Page x
... live on for many years , manage the company all through those years , and
then go off the scene almost together . In that case the affairs of the company are
apt to alter much , for good or for evil INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND
EDITION .
... live on for many years , manage the company all through those years , and
then go off the scene almost together . In that case the affairs of the company are
apt to alter much , for good or for evil INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND
EDITION .
Page xxi
And the mode in which the questions dealt with are discussed is almost as
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 ...
And the mode in which the questions dealt with are discussed is almost as
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 ...
Page xxxvi
... Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men are born
there which we cannot help , but we will not vaccinate ' it with genius ; we will not
put in a set of clever men for their lives who may as likely as not turn against us .
... Liberals ; happily the mass of it is not intellectual ; a few clever men are born
there which we cannot help , but we will not vaccinate ' it with genius ; we will not
put in a set of clever men for their lives who may as likely as not turn against us .
Page xlix
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds
to one another ; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality , and every one always
lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations .
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds
to one another ; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality , and every one always
lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill - feeling . It is the same with nations .
Page lvii
At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M . Thiers “ the deluge , " and he lives
upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in
practice all but impossible ; because all know that such a change might be a
change ...
At every crisis the Assembly feels that after M . Thiers “ the deluge , " and he lives
upon that feeling . A change of the President , though legally simple , is in
practice all but impossible ; because all know that such a change might be a
change ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Constitution Volume 3 of The Paternoster library |
| Author | Walter Bagehot |
| Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2008 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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