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... JUDGES FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . ( June 1. 1853 ) LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME . HORATIUS THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS VIRGINIA • THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . EPITAPH ON HENRY MARTYN LINES TO THE MEMORY OF PITT A RADICAL WAR ...
... JUDGES FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . ( June 1. 1853 ) LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME . HORATIUS THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS VIRGINIA • THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . EPITAPH ON HENRY MARTYN LINES TO THE MEMORY OF PITT A RADICAL WAR ...
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... represented places of this description . But , Sir , we must judge of a form of govern- ment by its general tendency , not by happy accidents . Every form of government has its happy accidents . Despotism has 20 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
... represented places of this description . But , Sir , we must judge of a form of govern- ment by its general tendency , not by happy accidents . Every form of government has its happy accidents . Despotism has 20 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
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... judge , as I said , by the general tendency of a system . No person can doubt that a House of Commons , chosen freely by the middle classes , will contain many very able men . I do not say , that pre- cisely the same able men who would ...
... judge , as I said , by the general tendency of a system . No person can doubt that a House of Commons , chosen freely by the middle classes , will contain many very able men . I do not say , that pre- cisely the same able men who would ...
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... judge of our legislators , just as we judge of our manufacturers by the cotton goods and the cutlery which they produce , just as we judge of our engineers by the suspension bridges , the tunnels , the steam carriages which they ...
... judge of our legislators , just as we judge of our manufacturers by the cotton goods and the cutlery which they produce , just as we judge of our engineers by the suspension bridges , the tunnels , the steam carriages which they ...
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... judge well of public affairs may be quite competent to choose others who will judge better . Whom , then , have Westminster and Southwark sent us during the last fifty years , years full of great events , years of intense popular ...
... judge well of public affairs may be quite competent to choose others who will judge better . Whom , then , have Westminster and Southwark sent us during the last fifty years , years full of great events , years of intense popular ...
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