The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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Page 30
... English constitution . Comines , they say , in the fifteenth century , extolled the English constitution as the best in the world . Montesquieu , in the eighteenth cen- tury , extolled it as the best in the world . And would it not be ...
... English constitution . Comines , they say , in the fifteenth century , extolled the English constitution as the best in the world . Montesquieu , in the eighteenth cen- tury , extolled it as the best in the world . And would it not be ...
Page 31
... English Government has generally been in advance of almost all other governments is true . But it is equally true that the English nation is , and has during some time been , in advance of the English Go- vernment . One plain proof of ...
... English Government has generally been in advance of almost all other governments is true . But it is equally true that the English nation is , and has during some time been , in advance of the English Go- vernment . One plain proof of ...
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... English people and their Government . Our institutions are either too popular or not popular enough . The people have not sufficient power in making the laws ; but they have quite sufficient power to impede the execution of the laws ...
... English people and their Government . Our institutions are either too popular or not popular enough . The people have not sufficient power in making the laws ; but they have quite sufficient power to impede the execution of the laws ...
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... English shires , the citizens and burgesses of all your largest towns . Our lawful power shall be firmly ex- erted to the utmost in your cause ; and our lawful power is such , that when firmly exerted in your cause , it must finally ...
... English shires , the citizens and burgesses of all your largest towns . Our lawful power shall be firmly ex- erted to the utmost in your cause ; and our lawful power is such , that when firmly exerted in your cause , it must finally ...
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... English by asserting that the plan of the govern- ment is too favourable to Ireland . Next day they try to bribe the Irish to desert us , by promising to give something to Ireland at the expense of England . Let us disappoint these ...
... English by asserting that the plan of the govern- ment is too favourable to Ireland . Next day they try to bribe the Irish to desert us , by promising to give something to Ireland at the expense of England . Let us disappoint these ...
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