 Perhaps we are not at liberty to forget that there are two kinds of bribery. It can be carried on by promising or giving to expectant partisans places paid out of the taxes, or it may consist in the directer process of legislating away the property of...  The Quarterly Review - Page 32redigeeritud poolt - 1886Full view - About this book
 | 1913 - 1088 lehte
...than $4,000. Sir Henry Maine once observed that the bribery most to be feared in a democracy is that of '• legislating away the property of one class and transferring it to another.'' This is quoted by the Milwaukee " Sentinel," which adds that the proposed exemption is frankly based... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1884 - 626 lehte
...there are two kinds of bribery. It can be carried on by promising or giving to expectant partizans places paid out of the taxes, or it may consist in...likely to be the corruption of these latter days. Party and Corruption, as influences which have shown themselves capable of bringing masses of men under... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 lehte
...to soil our fingers with the oil used in its native country to lubricate the wheels of the machine? Perhaps we are not at liberty to forget that there...likely to be the corruption of these latter days. Party and Corruption, as influences which have shown themselves capable of bringing masses of men under... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 lehte
...to soil our fingers with the oil used in its native country to lubricate the wheels of the machine? Perhaps we are not at liberty to forget that there...likely to be the corruption of these latter days. Party and Corruption, as influences which have shown themselves capable of bringing masses of men under... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1886 - 596 lehte
...prize for the best wife ; when smart your gentlemen from London might be seen dandling dirty babies, countering with dirtier bargees. The humours of old...for the most part temporary, motive, which has often been far more pernicious in its effects. At present in Ireland it may be fairly said that there is... | |
 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - 1886 - 760 lehte
...Maine thinks that the oil necessary " to lubricate the wheels of the machine . . . may consist in ... legislating away the property of one class and transferring it to another." [Page 106.] That such socialistic tendencies have not shown themselves in the United States is ascribed... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1895 - 624 lehte
...an Englishman's birthright. The corruption of coming days would be, in Sir H. Maine's opinion, the " process of legislating away the property of one class and transferring it to another.24 The Ballances and Seddons were only creatures of a class whose " passes had been looked... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1896 - 604 lehte
...grown. As Sir Henry Maine has truly said, the bribery which is most to be feared in a democracy is that of ' legislating away the property of one class and transferring it to another." Partial, inequitable taxation, introduced for the purpose of obtaining votes, is an evil which in democratic... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1897 - 640 lehte
...The form of evils to come would be, he said, that form of bribery or corruption which consists in " legislating away the property of one class and transferring it to another." Misery is in store for the country which realizes Maine's prediction. " Partial inequitable taxation... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 1914 - 496 lehte
...Sir Henry Maine remarks that the form of bribery which is most to be feared in a democracy is that of "legislating away the property of one class, and transferring it to another." Only in one department do we recognize experience, knowledge, and specialized training as necessary,... | |
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