Party and Patriotism: Or, The Degeneracy of PoliticsSwan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886 - 149 Seiten |
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... Truth a farthing rushlight , to be pinched out when you will With your deft official fingers and your politician's skill ? " LOWELL . AMID the dust and heat of party warfare the real nature and purpose of politics are almost wholly ...
... Truth a farthing rushlight , to be pinched out when you will With your deft official fingers and your politician's skill ? " LOWELL . AMID the dust and heat of party warfare the real nature and purpose of politics are almost wholly ...
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... truths that the aim of politics - like the object of good government and the raison d'être of parties - is the welfare of the nation . Yet obvious as it is , the truth fails to exercise anything like its due influence over men's ...
... truths that the aim of politics - like the object of good government and the raison d'être of parties - is the welfare of the nation . Yet obvious as it is , the truth fails to exercise anything like its due influence over men's ...
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... truths . He , in short , relinquishes all claim to that love of fair play which is supposed to be characteristic of Englishmen . Besides the danger of a mechanical working of the vote in obedience to a small knot of wire- pullers , who ...
... truths . He , in short , relinquishes all claim to that love of fair play which is supposed to be characteristic of Englishmen . Besides the danger of a mechanical working of the vote in obedience to a small knot of wire- pullers , who ...
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... truth , Smuggle new meanings under ancient names . " LOWELL . IT would be idle to deny that the two great parties are divided by something more than mere names and traditions , for there still remains something of the old difference of ...
... truth , Smuggle new meanings under ancient names . " LOWELL . IT would be idle to deny that the two great parties are divided by something more than mere names and traditions , for there still remains something of the old difference of ...
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... to some of the highest qualities of mind and character . Each also arrays on its own side those who from infirmity of mind are induced to accept half truths as inde- structible principles THE HOLLOWNESS OF PARTY . 47.
... to some of the highest qualities of mind and character . Each also arrays on its own side those who from infirmity of mind are induced to accept half truths as inde- structible principles THE HOLLOWNESS OF PARTY . 47.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abuses of party ambition Aylesbury believe better blunders bribery Carlyle caucus chief claims of party constituency convictions courage danger deliberative assembly doubt duty effect electorate eloquence endeavours English evil extreme views faith fear feeling foreign policy Herbert Spencer hold aloof honest honourable hope House of Commons human ignorance importance influence institution intelligence J. S. MILL laws leader least less matter Matthew Arnold means measures member of Parliament ment mind minister mischief moderate motives natural natural laws object organisation Parliament parliamentary party considerations party discipline party government party politicians party spirit patriotism perhaps political independence political morality political parties political virtue popular control practical prejudice present principles professional politician public opinion qualities questions racter reason reform regarded remedial representatives says selfishness sentiment shibboleths sincerity sound statesman suffrage tend tendency things thought tion true truth unsound legislation vices virtue vote welfare Whig wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 137 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Seite 35 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Seite 52 - The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends, but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property.
Seite 19 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Seite 104 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Seite 43 - ... there never was more necessity for surrounding individual independence of thought, speech, and conduct with the most powerful defences, in order to maintain that originality of mind and individuality of character which are the only source of any real progress, and of most of the qualities which make the human race much superior to any herd of animals.
Seite 56 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well, loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes ; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.
Seite 36 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Seite 105 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth 4 the reformation.
Seite 92 - AA death. If we take the wrong road, we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do ? ' Be strong and of a good courage.