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The guarantee for good government is even less solid where power is entrusted to a corporate body , for , as Turgot once said , La morale des corps les plus scrupuleux ne vaut jamais celle ' des particuliers honnêtes .
The guarantee for good government is even less solid where power is entrusted to a corporate body , for , as Turgot once said , La morale des corps les plus scrupuleux ne vaut jamais celle ' des particuliers honnêtes .
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The two Controllers were on excellent terms both with each other and with the Egyptian Government under Riaz Pasha . It was a new thing for Egypt to find representatives of European finance sincerely anxious for the good of the country ...
The two Controllers were on excellent terms both with each other and with the Egyptian Government under Riaz Pasha . It was a new thing for Egypt to find representatives of European finance sincerely anxious for the good of the country ...
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Sir Auckland Colvin , who had suc- ceeded Lord Cromer as Controller in June 1880 , submitted to his Government a weighty report in which he strongly expressed the opinion that the liberal movement then going on should in no wise be ...
Sir Auckland Colvin , who had suc- ceeded Lord Cromer as Controller in June 1880 , submitted to his Government a weighty report in which he strongly expressed the opinion that the liberal movement then going on should in no wise be ...
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This volume published 1908, not 1808 as listed.
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THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECT RACES | 1 |
Dent | 28 |
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