Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 595
... interest in bad government , if intrusted with its powers , and as the community itself is incapable of exercising those powers , and must intrust them to certain individuals , the conclusion is obvious : the community itself must check ...
... interest in bad government , if intrusted with its powers , and as the community itself is incapable of exercising those powers , and must intrust them to certain individuals , the conclusion is obvious : the community itself must check ...
Page 604
... interest ? Or is the interest of the middle rank identical with the interest of the people ? If the people act according to the directions of the middle rank , as Mr. Mill says that they assuredly will , one of these three questions ...
... interest ? Or is the interest of the middle rank identical with the interest of the people ? If the people act according to the directions of the middle rank , as Mr. Mill says that they assuredly will , one of these three questions ...
Page 707
... interest of the Company , or of English merchants generally , that the Government was guided on this occasion . The course which appeared to us the most likely to promote the interests of our Eastern Empire was to make the proprietors ...
... interest of the Company , or of English merchants generally , that the Government was guided on this occasion . The course which appeared to us the most likely to promote the interests of our Eastern Empire was to make the proprietors ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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