Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... tion of the British Constitution was carried , at first by a majority of one only , but after a dissolution by a majority of 136 , in the House of Commons , will ask what were the experienced grievances , the acknowledged faults , the ...
... tion of the British Constitution was carried , at first by a majority of one only , but after a dissolution by a majority of 136 , in the House of Commons , will ask what were the experienced grievances , the acknowledged faults , the ...
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... tion ; and converted the pride of British freedom into the slavish imitation of French democracy ? He will be answered , that these fundamental changes in the constitution took place in the very age that revolution had exhibited its ...
... tion ; and converted the pride of British freedom into the slavish imitation of French democracy ? He will be answered , that these fundamental changes in the constitution took place in the very age that revolution had exhibited its ...
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... tion of duty , we are delivered over to the fury of our own passions . The historian , who has reflected on the rise , progress , and decay of nations - who has observed how invariably a limit is put to the extension of empires , when ...
... tion of duty , we are delivered over to the fury of our own passions . The historian , who has reflected on the rise , progress , and decay of nations - who has observed how invariably a limit is put to the extension of empires , when ...
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... tion , and guarded by the protection of a double set of electors . It was terminated in five years by the sword of Napoleon . The constitution of Louis XVIII . conferred the right of voting upon all persons paying 300 francs a - year of ...
... tion , and guarded by the protection of a double set of electors . It was terminated in five years by the sword of Napoleon . The constitution of Louis XVIII . conferred the right of voting upon all persons paying 300 francs a - year of ...
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... tion of the middle orders must long ago have overturned the Government . Had it been vested in the forty - shilling freeholders , their indifference to the wants of the manu- facturing and commercial classes would have led to a similar ...
... tion of the middle orders must long ago have overturned the Government . Had it been vested in the forty - shilling freeholders , their indifference to the wants of the manu- facturing and commercial classes would have led to a similar ...
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