The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are senators because they are rich ; a few are rich because they are senators ; while in the remaining cases the same talents which have won success in law or commerce have... HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION - Страница 2086написао/ла WILLIAM J. JACKMAN - 1911Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 634 страница
...but to keep a man's opinions before the public and sustain his fame.1 The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...majority are or have been lawyers ; some regularly practise before the Supreme Court. Complaints are occasionally levelled against the aristocratic tendencies... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1889 - 480 страница
...inadvertence, or to a belief in its strict truth. On page 158, he says: " The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...are rich; a few are rich because they are senators" etc. The implication of this phrase is plain, and we are forced to think it a correct observation of... | |
| Morgan E. Dowling - 1894 - 246 страница
...and one's friends is fruitful. The Senate has become, practically, an assembly of plutocrats. Some are Senators because they are rich ; a few are rich because they are Senators." Mr. Emerson, in his "Essays," tells us: "The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1896 - 576 страница
...harangues are mere rhetorical thunder addressed to the nation outside. The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...majority are or have been lawyers ; some regularly practise before the Supreme Court. Complaints are occasionally levelled' against the aristocratic tendencies... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1899 - 396 страница
...fruitful."' The Senate has become, practically, an assembly of plutocrats. a Some," Mr. Bryce tells us, " are Senators because they are rich: a few are rich because they are 1 See his interesting paper on '' The Poor of the World," in the Fortnightly Review, August, 1893,... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - 1903 - 432 страница
...as a "millionaire's club," because it contains so many men of very great wealth. Mr. Bryce says : " Some, an increasing number, are Senators because they...majority are or have been lawyers. Some regularly practise before the Supreme Court. Complaints are occasionally levelled against the aristocratic tendencies... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1906 - 396 страница
...doing, but to keep a man's opinions before the public and sustain his fame. The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...some regularly practice before the Supreme Court. The Senators indulge some social pretensions and are the nearest approach to an official aristocracy... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1908 - 838 страница
...but to keep a man's opinions before the public and sustain his fame. 9 )The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...senators because they are rich; a few are rich because thev are senators, while in the remaining cases the sameTaTenTswhicTniaTe won success in law or commerce... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1910 - 588 страница
...outside. The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, 00 THK NATIONAL GOVERNMENT PART i an increasing number, are senators because they are...majority are or have been lawyers ; some regularly practise before the Supreme Court. Complaints are occasionally levelled against the aristocratic tendencies... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1910 - 780 страница
...harangues are mere rhetorical thunder addressed to the nation outside. The Senate now contains many men of great wealth. Some, an increasing number, are...brought their possessor to the top in politics also. The commercial element is stronger now than formerly : but the majority are or have been lawyers. Some... | |
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