The Contemporary Review, 43. köideA. Strahan, 1883 |
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... electors , clerical or lay ; but the results of the two elections , of Oxford in 1878 and of Cambridge in 1882 , are disappointing in another way . The Universities , and there with the University constituencies , have largely increased ...
... electors , clerical or lay ; but the results of the two elections , of Oxford in 1878 and of Cambridge in 1882 , are disappointing in another way . The Universities , and there with the University constituencies , have largely increased ...
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... electors from the electors of an ordinary county or borough , which makes University electors less inclined to what we hold to be the principles of right reason than the electors of an ordinary county or borough . Education , culture ...
... electors from the electors of an ordinary county or borough , which makes University electors less inclined to what we hold to be the principles of right reason than the electors of an ordinary county or borough . Education , culture ...
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... electors . We should ask for this , even if we thought that Lord Carnarvon was right , if we thought that , the higher the standard of the electors , the safer would be the Tory seats . But it is perhaps only human nature to ask for it ...
... electors . We should ask for this , even if we thought that Lord Carnarvon was right , if we thought that , the higher the standard of the electors , the safer would be the Tory seats . But it is perhaps only human nature to ask for it ...
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... electors . But this is a ground which could not be decently brought forward . It would not do to propose the disfranchisement of a particular class of electors merely because they commonly use their franchise in favour of a particular ...
... electors . But this is a ground which could not be decently brought forward . It would not do to propose the disfranchisement of a particular class of electors merely because they commonly use their franchise in favour of a particular ...
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... electors are men who are at once non - resident and who have taken nothing more than that common degree which the Spectator , quite rightly , holds to be of such small account . They often , we may believe , keep their name on the books ...
... electors are men who are at once non - resident and who have taken nothing more than that common degree which the Spectator , quite rightly , holds to be of such small account . They often , we may believe , keep their name on the books ...
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