The National Review, Volume 19Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1864 |
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... less striking than the difference in the nature of the hands in which that power is vested . England entrusts the executive authority to an hereditary King ; the United States , and the several States generally , to an elective ...
... less striking than the difference in the nature of the hands in which that power is vested . England entrusts the executive authority to an hereditary King ; the United States , and the several States generally , to an elective ...
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... less clearly to be distinguished from a King . This distinction seems almost more obvious than the former one ; yet inter- mediate forms may be seen here also , and to define a King may not be quite so easy as it seems at first sight ...
... less clearly to be distinguished from a King . This distinction seems almost more obvious than the former one ; yet inter- mediate forms may be seen here also , and to define a King may not be quite so easy as it seems at first sight ...
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... less than that of the American President , but , as being elected for life , they enjoyed , like the Spartan kings , far greater opportunities of obtaining a permanent influence in the state . Other instances might be found elsewhere ...
... less than that of the American President , but , as being elected for life , they enjoyed , like the Spartan kings , far greater opportunities of obtaining a permanent influence in the state . Other instances might be found elsewhere ...
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... less is the mode of election , or any other detail of the American Constitution . The one real and essential difference between a president and a first minister is that given already , that a president holds a legal position for a ...
... less is the mode of election , or any other detail of the American Constitution . The one real and essential difference between a president and a first minister is that given already , that a president holds a legal position for a ...
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... less baneful , but it cannot be got rid of altogether . It is the weak point of presi- dential government , to be fairly balanced against its strong points , and against the weak points of other systems . This weak point , however ...
... less baneful , but it cannot be got rid of altogether . It is the weak point of presi- dential government , to be fairly balanced against its strong points , and against the weak points of other systems . This weak point , however ...
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Page 63 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 62 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Page 64 - Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a...
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Page 43 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity...
Page 66 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 42 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
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Page 64 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper...
Page 241 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not property safe ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.