The Quarterly Review, Volumes 157-158John Murray, 1884 |
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... success of the United States has sustained the credit of Republics - a word which was once used with a good deal of vagueness to signify a government of any sort without an hereditary king at its head , but which has lately come to have ...
... success of the United States has sustained the credit of Republics - a word which was once used with a good deal of vagueness to signify a government of any sort without an hereditary king at its head , but which has lately come to have ...
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... success was the incapacity of the English generals , trained in the stiff Prussian system soon to perish at Jena , to adapt themselves to new conditions of warfare , an incapacity which newer generals , full of admiration for a newer ...
... success was the incapacity of the English generals , trained in the stiff Prussian system soon to perish at Jena , to adapt themselves to new conditions of warfare , an incapacity which newer generals , full of admiration for a newer ...
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... success of this experiment has blinded men to its novelty . There is no exact precedent for it , either in the ancient or in the modern world . The builders of Constitutions have of course foreseen the violation of constitutional rules ...
... success of this experiment has blinded men to its novelty . There is no exact precedent for it , either in the ancient or in the modern world . The builders of Constitutions have of course foreseen the violation of constitutional rules ...
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... success or failure as the test of right or wrong in national undertakings , have generally accepted the view of the Whig Opposition . And it must be allowed that the statesmen of the most unpopular country in Europe ought to have known ...
... success or failure as the test of right or wrong in national undertakings , have generally accepted the view of the Whig Opposition . And it must be allowed that the statesmen of the most unpopular country in Europe ought to have known ...
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... to be corrupt , unmanageable , and inefficient ; and these attempts call for no special remark , except that they have hitherto met with only the most moderate success . But a measure 24 The Constitution of the United States .
... to be corrupt , unmanageable , and inefficient ; and these attempts call for no special remark , except that they have hitherto met with only the most moderate success . But a measure 24 The Constitution of the United States .
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