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Page xxii
... the lesson . In plain English , what I fear is that both our political parties will bid for the support of the working man ; that both of them will promise to do as he likes if xxii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... the lesson . In plain English , what I fear is that both our political parties will bid for the support of the working man ; that both of them will promise to do as he likes if xxii INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION .
Page xxv
... English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ...
... English Constitu- tion is on this point quite wrong as usual . According to that theory , the two Houses are two branches of the Legislature , perfectly equal and perfectly distinct . But before the Act of 1832 they were not so distinct ...
Page xxxii
... English plutocracy , as is often said of something yet coarser , must be " humoured , not drove ; " they may easily be impelled against the aristocracy , though they respect it very much ; and as they are much stronger than the ...
... English plutocracy , as is often said of something yet coarser , must be " humoured , not drove ; " they may easily be impelled against the aristocracy , though they respect it very much ; and as they are much stronger than the ...
Page xxxvii
... English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English ...
... English average . But in the present English world such a House of Lords would soon lose all influence . People would say , " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English ...
Page xliii
... English majority dare vote for an exceedingly bad treaty ; it would rather desert its own leader than ensure its own ruin . And an English minority , in- heriting a long experience of Parliamentary affairs , would not be exceedingly ...
... English majority dare vote for an exceedingly bad treaty ; it would rather desert its own leader than ensure its own ruin . And an English minority , in- heriting a long experience of Parliamentary affairs , would not be exceedingly ...
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