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... English institutions . Anti - intellectualism was , of course , a common characterization of the English , supported very often by the thinnest and most impressionistic of evidence . The absence of a coherent body of enlightened men of ...
... English institutions . Anti - intellectualism was , of course , a common characterization of the English , supported very often by the thinnest and most impressionistic of evidence . The absence of a coherent body of enlightened men of ...
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... English debate transcended even the famed national trait of taciturnity and reserve . The English were mere parotting schoolboys whose politics embraced no genuine reading or knowl- edge . The effect resembled clouds of smoke with no ...
... English debate transcended even the famed national trait of taciturnity and reserve . The English were mere parotting schoolboys whose politics embraced no genuine reading or knowl- edge . The effect resembled clouds of smoke with no ...
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... English government in a French society . Its outstanding boon was the abandonment of speculative principles . ' Every principle is identified with certain forms , attested by certain facts , which convert it into legal truth and ...
... English government in a French society . Its outstanding boon was the abandonment of speculative principles . ' Every principle is identified with certain forms , attested by certain facts , which convert it into legal truth and ...
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The Whigs the People and Reform | 25 |
Changing the Law in Germany in the Ancien Régime | 45 |
Notes on Contributors vii | |
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