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... Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things , and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt ...
... Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things , and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent . They would still more dislike it if it hurt ...
Page l
... Ministry for making treaties , has in no case a decisive weight in foreign policy , though its debates on them are often excellent ; and there is a real danger at present in giving it such weight . They are not under the same guidance ...
... Ministry for making treaties , has in no case a decisive weight in foreign policy , though its debates on them are often excellent ; and there is a real danger at present in giving it such weight . They are not under the same guidance ...
Page liii
... Minister , is made in a nation which has , to say the least of it , no peculiar aptitude for Parliamentary Government ; which has possibly a peculiar inaptitude for it . In the last but one of these essays I have tried to describe one ...
... Minister , is made in a nation which has , to say the least of it , no peculiar aptitude for Parliamentary Government ; which has possibly a peculiar inaptitude for it . In the last but one of these essays I have tried to describe one ...
Page lvi
... Minister , has the power of dissolving the Assembly . But M. Thiers has no such power ; and therefore , under ordinary ... Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would be ...
... Minister , has the power of dissolving the Assembly . But M. Thiers has no such power ; and therefore , under ordinary ... Ministry , that having no reason to fear the penalty which that change so often brings in England , they would be ...
Page lvii
... Minister agrees with any other in anything , and with all the members of which he himself frequently disagrees . The selection is quite in his hand . Ordinarily a Parliamentary Premier cannot choose ; he is brought in by a party ; he is ...
... Minister agrees with any other in anything , and with all the members of which he himself frequently disagrees . The selection is quite in his hand . Ordinarily a Parliamentary Premier cannot choose ; he is brought in by a party ; he is ...
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