Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, Том 3H. Holt, 1873 |
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... improvements of which , in Lord Brougham's judgment , the French Constitution stood in need , were to make the peerage hereditary , and allow land to be entailed . It would have been treating his friends very hardly , to be 12 THE ...
... improvements of which , in Lord Brougham's judgment , the French Constitution stood in need , were to make the peerage hereditary , and allow land to be entailed . It would have been treating his friends very hardly , to be 12 THE ...
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... improvement ; since they might , with as much chance of success , have attempted to alter the solar system . Hereditary legislation and entails are not things which a nation takes back , when once it has rid itself of them . It ...
... improvement ; since they might , with as much chance of success , have attempted to alter the solar system . Hereditary legislation and entails are not things which a nation takes back , when once it has rid itself of them . It ...
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... improvement . Not only did it make an obstinate resistance to all and every organic reform , even the most moderate ; to all merely legislative or merely ad- ministrative improvements it was , in practice , equally inimical : it ...
... improvement . Not only did it make an obstinate resistance to all and every organic reform , even the most moderate ; to all merely legislative or merely ad- ministrative improvements it was , in practice , equally inimical : it ...
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... improvement ? Are they alone to con- tinue fixed , while all around them is changeable ? The circumstances of Europe have so altered during the last century , that the constitutions , the laws , the arrangements of property , the ...
... improvement ? Are they alone to con- tinue fixed , while all around them is changeable ? The circumstances of Europe have so altered during the last century , that the constitutions , the laws , the arrangements of property , the ...
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... improvement of international morality can only take place by a series of violations of existing rules ; by a course of conduct grounded on new principles , and tending to erect these into customs in their turn . Accordingly , new ...
... improvement of international morality can only take place by a series of violations of existing rules ; by a course of conduct grounded on new principles , and tending to erect these into customs in their turn . Accordingly , new ...
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