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... hand , if the British House of Com- mons were elected by the householders of the metropolis , it would still be a democratic , not an aristocratic institution , although the metropolitan householders constitute a small minority of the ...
... hand , if the British House of Com- mons were elected by the householders of the metropolis , it would still be a democratic , not an aristocratic institution , although the metropolitan householders constitute a small minority of the ...
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... hands of a few , but from almost all who do not possess land being excluded from it . If we suppose the supreme power ... hand , rapacity . Indeed , the opposed , but not inconsistent , vices of prodigality and rapacity , seem to belong ...
... hands of a few , but from almost all who do not possess land being excluded from it . If we suppose the supreme power ... hand , rapacity . Indeed , the opposed , but not inconsistent , vices of prodigality and rapacity , seem to belong ...
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... hand , the French Chamber of Peers is an aristocratic institution . It is a small body of persons possessing a portion of the supreme legis- lative power . But of the six aristocratic defects enumerated by Lord Brougham , only the first ...
... hand , the French Chamber of Peers is an aristocratic institution . It is a small body of persons possessing a portion of the supreme legis- lative power . But of the six aristocratic defects enumerated by Lord Brougham , only the first ...
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... hand at a Life . Nor is he a more lively hand at a Note . In both cases he compiles with singular clumsiness , and his com- pilations are not always harmless . But though Mr Tooke is a bad biographer and a bad annotator , he is a worse ...
... hand at a Life . Nor is he a more lively hand at a Note . In both cases he compiles with singular clumsiness , and his com- pilations are not always harmless . But though Mr Tooke is a bad biographer and a bad annotator , he is a worse ...
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... hand , Churchill himself tells us that he was not so . He says , that he was an idle pastor and a drowsy . preacher . We are assured , among the last and most earnest verses he composed , that sleep at his bidding crept from pew to pew ...
... hand , Churchill himself tells us that he was not so . He says , that he was an idle pastor and a drowsy . preacher . We are assured , among the last and most earnest verses he composed , that sleep at his bidding crept from pew to pew ...
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