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Page 76
... begin by learning pain- fully and imperfectly what the permanent secretary knows by clear and instant memory . No doubt a par- liamentary secretary always can , and sometimes does , silence his subordinate by the tacit might of his ...
... begin by learning pain- fully and imperfectly what the permanent secretary knows by clear and instant memory . No doubt a par- liamentary secretary always can , and sometimes does , silence his subordinate by the tacit might of his ...
Page 84
... begin with ; sometimes he will be clever , but sometimes he will be stupid ; in the long run he will be neither clever nor stupid ; he will be the simple , common man who plods the plain routine of life from the cradle to the grave ...
... begin with ; sometimes he will be clever , but sometimes he will be stupid ; in the long run he will be neither clever nor stupid ; he will be the simple , common man who plods the plain routine of life from the cradle to the grave ...
Page 86
... begin to work as George III . worked , or as Prince Albert worked . The only fit material for a constitutional king is a prince who begins early to reign - who in his youth is superior to pleasure - who in his youth is willing to labour ...
... begin to work as George III . worked , or as Prince Albert worked . The only fit material for a constitutional king is a prince who begins early to reign - who in his youth is superior to pleasure - who in his youth is willing to labour ...
Page 119
... begin ambition . As yet these men are few in public life , because they do not know their own strength . It is like Columbus and the egg once again ; a few original men will show it can be done , and then a crowd of common men will ...
... begin ambition . As yet these men are few in public life , because they do not know their own strength . It is like Columbus and the egg once again ; a few original men will show it can be done , and then a crowd of common men will ...
Page 122
... begin to agitate about it , to bawl at meetings about it , that deference is gone , its peculiar charm lost , its reserved sanctity gone . But , by an odd fatality , there was in the recesses of the Constitution an old prerogative which ...
... begin to agitate about it , to bawl at meetings about it , that deference is gone , its peculiar charm lost , its reserved sanctity gone . But , by an odd fatality , there was in the recesses of the Constitution an old prerogative which ...
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