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... once started into life ; the pre - '32 all at once died out . Most of the new politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 , they entered it after 1856. Such an enormous ...
... once started into life ; the pre - '32 all at once died out . Most of the new politicians were men who might well have been Lord Palmerston's grandchildren . He came into Parliament in 1806 , they entered it after 1856. Such an enormous ...
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Walter Bagehot. New questions would have appeared at once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ...
Walter Bagehot. New questions would have appeared at once . A political country is like an American forest : you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ...
Page xv
... once the idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea ...
... once the idea that it will be altered entirely and altered for the better . I cannot expect that the new class of voters will be at all more able to form sound opinions on complex questions than the old voters . There was indeed an idea ...
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... decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of mechanical test : they say the House of Lords should be at liberty to reject a measure passed by с the Commons once or more , and then if the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxvii.
... decided . There are some people who lay down a sort of mechanical test : they say the House of Lords should be at liberty to reject a measure passed by с the Commons once or more , and then if the INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . xxvii.
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... once only , or whether it has come up several times , is one important fact in judging whether the nation is determined to have that measure enacted ; it is an indication , but it is only one of the indications . There are others ...
... once only , or whether it has come up several times , is one important fact in judging whether the nation is determined to have that measure enacted ; it is an indication , but it is only one of the indications . There are others ...
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