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... continue to be an exclusive aristocratic caste institution . It must be as popular as the second chamber ; but it must at the same time , in opposition to that , contain conservative elements , and thus promise a greater security for ...
... continue to be an exclusive aristocratic caste institution . It must be as popular as the second chamber ; but it must at the same time , in opposition to that , contain conservative elements , and thus promise a greater security for ...
Page 72
... continue - as many of them commence - to occupy a position of high influence in the counsels of the country . The outlets that certainly exist for the activity of the members of the House of Lords are at present amply recognised ; but ...
... continue - as many of them commence - to occupy a position of high influence in the counsels of the country . The outlets that certainly exist for the activity of the members of the House of Lords are at present amply recognised ; but ...
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... continue , so soon as emigration has received a check , as indeed it already has , to incline towards further division ( though the opinion generally held in Ireland is that a family cannot properly support itself in a farm under from ...
... continue , so soon as emigration has received a check , as indeed it already has , to incline towards further division ( though the opinion generally held in Ireland is that a family cannot properly support itself in a farm under from ...
Page 96
... continue so until her laws are more equitable , and her land system is renovated by returning to the equitable system of the Brehon code . ' 1 But it may be asserted that the radical evil lies in the nature of the people themselves ...
... continue so until her laws are more equitable , and her land system is renovated by returning to the equitable system of the Brehon code . ' 1 But it may be asserted that the radical evil lies in the nature of the people themselves ...
Page 107
... continue regularly to increase and to emigrate , in a great degree allowing the females to remain behind . The report on the census of Scotland for 1871 con- tains the following just remarks with reference to the fact and probable ...
... continue regularly to increase and to emigrate , in a great degree allowing the females to remain behind . The report on the census of Scotland for 1871 con- tains the following just remarks with reference to the fact and probable ...
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