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Page liii
... sort of Republic then existed . But now France has given an example - M . Thiers is ( with one exception ) just the chef du pouvoir exécutif that I endeavoured more than once in this book to describe . He is appointed by and is ...
... sort of Republic then existed . But now France has given an example - M . Thiers is ( with one exception ) just the chef du pouvoir exécutif that I endeavoured more than once in this book to describe . He is appointed by and is ...
Page lxxiii
... sort of taxation tried in America , that of taxing everything , and seeing what everything would yield , could not have been tried under a Government delicately and quickly sensitive to public opinion . I do not apologise for dwelling ...
... sort of taxation tried in America , that of taxing everything , and seeing what everything would yield , could not have been tried under a Government delicately and quickly sensitive to public opinion . I do not apologise for dwelling ...
Page 29
... sort of difficulty save the one it had to meet - which abounded in pacific discretion , and was wanting only in the " dæmonic element ; " we chose a statesman , who had the sort of merit then wanted , who , when he feels the steady ...
... sort of difficulty save the one it had to meet - which abounded in pacific discretion , and was wanting only in the " dæmonic element ; " we chose a statesman , who had the sort of merit then wanted , who , when he feels the steady ...
Page 43
... sort of treason to maintain the inalien- able right of lineal sovereignty , for it was equivalent to saying that the claim of another family was better than hers but now , in the strange course of human events , that very sentiment has ...
... sort of treason to maintain the inalien- able right of lineal sovereignty , for it was equivalent to saying that the claim of another family was better than hers but now , in the strange course of human events , that very sentiment has ...
Page 44
... sort of post occupied by a constitutional king in nations of monarchical history . Such an institution , far from being so august as to spread reverence around it , is too novel and artificial to get reverence for itself ; if , too ...
... sort of post occupied by a constitutional king in nations of monarchical history . Such an institution , far from being so august as to spread reverence around it , is too novel and artificial to get reverence for itself ; if , too ...
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