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Reflections of a Russian Statesman - Page 27
by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - 1898 - 271 pages
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Reflections of a Russian Statesman

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - Church and state - 1898 - 460 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great States — was inspired by secret aims to the centralisation of po-.ver, or...
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Reflections of a Russian Statesman

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - Church and state - 1898 - 298 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...contrary, the extension of the representative principle is accomi *ajT/» f & * \ t '!>' . .'".i;/ -'7 :; •Jt*f- * i .'i >r< \ panied by an abasement of political...
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Russia and Reform

Bernard Pares - Russia - 1907 - 602 pages
...mankind bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms, the most durable measures, emanated from the supreme will of statesmen or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and deep knowledge." The next chapter is on " The Great Falsehood of Our Time." (^Amongst the falsest of political principles...
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The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs: Or, The Truth about the ...

Lucien Wolf - Antisemitism - 1921 - 68 pages
...lofty ideas and whoever he may be, and not deep knowledge,*and that, on at the hands of the masses".2 the contrary, the extension of the representative...principle is accompanied by an abasement of political ideas".1 In the second part of "The Jewish Peril," where the Elders of Zion are made to expound their...
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Readings in Russian Civilization Volume II: Imperial Russia, 1700-1917, Volume 2

Thomas Riha - History - 2009 - 305 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great...
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The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy

David Mayers - Political Science - 1995 - 364 pages
...formulation: The history of mankind bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms . . . emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. Redoubled censorship, increased police activity...
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The Twentieth Century

Kathy Sammis - Education - 2002 - 154 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and deep knowledge. On the contrary, the extension of the representative principle [right to vote] has ever been accompanied...
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Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill

Peter Viereck - Political Science - 200 pages
...fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of one statesman, or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and...the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great States — was inspired by secret aims to the centralization of power, or led...
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World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader

Peter N. Stearns - History - 2008 - 433 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. . . . . . . Even in the classic countries of...
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