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Title: The New world compared with the Old: a description of the American government, institutions, and enterprises, and of those of our great rivals at the present time, particularly England and France
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn., S.M. Betts & Company New York, J.D. Dennison (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e idea that its adoption would, probably, raise a clamor,when the President interrupted him with the words, I care nothingabout clamors, sir, mark me ! I do precisely what I think just and 188 THE NEW WOULD COMPARED WITH THE OLD. right. As lie uttered the last, his forefinger came down perpendicu-larly upon the map. The English people have looked at our form of government, simpleas it seems to be, with a good deal of curiosity. One of the latestof them, the popular writer, Mr. Anthony Trollope, says of thissubject: — It will be alleged by Americans that the introduction intoCongress of the Presidents ministers would alter all the existingrelations of the President and of Congress, and would, at once, pro-duce that parliamentary form of government which England pos-sesses, and which the States have chosen to avoid. Such a changewould elevate Congress and depress the President. No doubt this is true. Such elevation, however, and suchdepression seemed to me to be the two things needed.
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ECCLESIASTICAL EDIFICES. 1—Winchester Cathedral, England. 2—Rheims Cathedral, France. 3—Notre Dame, Paris. 4—Trinity Church, New York. 5—Interior of St. Pauls, London. 0—St. Sophia Mosque. 7—St. Peters, Rome. CHAPTEE Vn. CHURCH AND STATE. An account of the established church in England, and of its influence upon America. —Sketches of the church dignitaries, cathedrals, and parish institutions of the UnitedKingdom. By this time we have seen the complicated character of the Britishgovernment: a Queen with immense revenues, yet ruled entirely bya partisan Prime Minister and a Privy Council. But the Queen ather coronation, as has been described, is invested with a spiritual aswell as a temporal sceptre. She stands at the head of the Establishedor Government Church of England, — a feature of national life whichis comparable with nothing in this country. Let us begin the examination of the subject of Church and Stateby some geographical notices. Forty miles from London, ne

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