The Ministry is (so to speak) the bread-winner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory, just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.
Bagehot uses a familial analogy to illustrate the financial burdens of the political Ministry.
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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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