The insanity with which he struggled, and in many cases struggled very successfully, during many years, would probably have burst out much oftener but for the sedative effect of sedulous employment.
Bagehot reflects on the mental struggles of George III, attributing some of his stability to his engagement in work.
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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.
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.
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