The Quarterly Review, Volumen216William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 |
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... political imbecility to ascribe an omnipotence to the odd man which does not belong to the odd ounce . Yet the maxim of deferring to majorities , true and useful within narrow limits , is carelessly accepted as the last word of obvious ...
... political imbecility to ascribe an omnipotence to the odd man which does not belong to the odd ounce . Yet the maxim of deferring to majorities , true and useful within narrow limits , is carelessly accepted as the last word of obvious ...
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... political thinker of commanding intellect , we shall find him reproducing in terms the old theory of common consent , and asserting that the majority does rule in the Union , and that it is precisely to secure that the majority shall ...
... political thinker of commanding intellect , we shall find him reproducing in terms the old theory of common consent , and asserting that the majority does rule in the Union , and that it is precisely to secure that the majority shall ...
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... politics and constitution of the American Union with direct reference to the problems which culminated in that armed ... political power Calhoun saw the true security that the will of the people should prevail , and not the will of ...
... politics and constitution of the American Union with direct reference to the problems which culminated in that armed ... political power Calhoun saw the true security that the will of the people should prevail , and not the will of ...
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... political power to the smallest possible units of population . Supervision by successively wider and wider areas ... politics which a system like Torböl's would afford - he terms it ' Localism ' -it may seriously be doubted whether ...
... political power to the smallest possible units of population . Supervision by successively wider and wider areas ... politics which a system like Torböl's would afford - he terms it ' Localism ' -it may seriously be doubted whether ...
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... political feelings of great intensity , such as nationalism or ecclesiasticism , the majority principle must needs begin to lose its moral force . At the same time , and to the same degree , the principle of protection for the minority ...
... political feelings of great intensity , such as nationalism or ecclesiasticism , the majority principle must needs begin to lose its moral force . At the same time , and to the same degree , the principle of protection for the minority ...
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Página 386 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Página 294 - A POOR Relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain on your purse, a more intolerable dun upon your...
Página 435 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Página 334 - Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
Página 327 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Página 336 - That the elder ladies and children be content with a second bench at the ball, as being past or not come to perfection. 9. That the younger ladies take notice how many eyes observe them. NB This does not extend to the Have-at-alls. 10. That all whisperers of lies and scandal, be taken for their authors.
Página 218 - For this purpose it is not absolutely necessary that the German fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest Sea Power, because, generally, a great Sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us.
Página 417 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest farther than a laugh : if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass...
Página 272 - ... subject only to such particular exemptions or abatements in Ireland, and in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as circumstances may appear from time to time to demand. That from the period of such declaration, it shall no longer be necessary to regulate the contribution of the two countries towards the future expenditure of the united kingdom...