Stray Shots: Political, Military, Economical, and Social, Volumen25Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 - 288 páginas |
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... vote black is white and white is black exactly as their leaders desire them ? Cicero's wish , that ' every man should have written on his brow what he really thought of the affairs of the State , ' can never be realised ; but at the ...
... vote black is white and white is black exactly as their leaders desire them ? Cicero's wish , that ' every man should have written on his brow what he really thought of the affairs of the State , ' can never be realised ; but at the ...
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... votes ! The number of those who take to politics as a profes- sion , as others take to the law , the Church , the army , physic , or trade , and who scramble and fight for the plums of office , is very small : about fifty on one side ...
... votes ! The number of those who take to politics as a profes- sion , as others take to the law , the Church , the army , physic , or trade , and who scramble and fight for the plums of office , is very small : about fifty on one side ...
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... vote and interest of any free and enlightened constituency , and never intends to do so , the question has no practical importance . But no honest man likes to sail under false colours , and if the public care to know the political ...
... vote and interest of any free and enlightened constituency , and never intends to do so , the question has no practical importance . But no honest man likes to sail under false colours , and if the public care to know the political ...
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... votes of faddists ' of all kinds , and of the revolutionary party generally , with Imperial interests and with the interests of the com- munity , is by far the most widely ruinous and the most unprincipled system of bribery that has ...
... votes of faddists ' of all kinds , and of the revolutionary party generally , with Imperial interests and with the interests of the com- munity , is by far the most widely ruinous and the most unprincipled system of bribery that has ...
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... votes than on our welfare . The question must already have occurred to many of us how long any Government can continue in a course in which squeezability is the rule and moral courage the exception . I declare that in the four momentous ...
... votes than on our welfare . The question must already have occurred to many of us how long any Government can continue in a course in which squeezability is the rule and moral courage the exception . I declare that in the four momentous ...
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