 Oxford,* challenges us to show that the Constitution was ever better than it is. Sir, we are legislators, not antiquaries. The question for us is, not whether the Constitution was better formerly, but whether we can make it better now.  Speeches - 80 페이지저자: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 1910 - 932 페이지
...the foremost orators of the House. Replying to Sir Robert Inglis he said, " My honorable friend . . . challenges us to show that the constitution was ever...better formerly, but whether we can make it better now? " Shall " a hundred drunken potwallopers in one place, or the owner of a ruined hovel in another,"... | |
 | William Henry Skaggs - 1924 - 522 페이지
...foremost orators of the House." Replying to Sir Robert Inglis, he said: My honorable friend. . . . challenges us to show that the constitution was ever...better formerly, but whether we can make it better now. . . . We must judge of the form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. The... | |
 | Charles Downer Hazen - 1923 - 1296 페이지
...the foremost orators of the House. Replying to Sir Robert Inglis he said, " My honorable friend . . . challenges us to show that the constitution was ever...better formerly, but whether we can make it better now? " Shall " a hundred drunken potwallopers in one place, or the owner of a ruined hovel in another,"... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 804 페이지
...such a system is ancient is no defence. My honorable friend, the Member for the University of Oxford,1 challenges us to show, that the Constitution was ever...make it better now. In fact, however, the system was 1 Sir Robert Harry Inglii. not in ancient times by any means so absurd as it is in our age. One noble... | |
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