 During the next twenty years the laws had almost invariably been used to make the mass of the people worse off. That was why the workmen, led by Cobbett and Hunt, began to demand the vote, before the middle classes had been stirred to a like demand. That...  British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) - Page 158by George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1922 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J DEBRETT - 1796 - 842 pages
...could be fo indifcrcet, and fo ignorant of the principles of our Conftitution to fay), that " The mafs of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL explained again that he did not mean to throw any reflection on the perfons... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1796 - 872 pages
...could k fo indifcreet, and fo ignorant of the principles of our Conftitution to fay), that " The mafs of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL explained again that he did not mean to throw any reflection on the perfons... | |
 | 1797 - 856 pages
...unconstitutional expreffion which had a few days before fallen from the bifliop of Rochsfter, namely, that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." With refpeft to what had been urgetf by lord Grenvilie in defence of the bill, he obferved, that as... | |
 | 1801 - 618 pages
...severe rebuke from the head of the house of Bedford, explained away the odious proposition, " that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" The right honourable exsecretary, who represents a large manufacturing city, which has been scratched... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 636 pages
...severe rebuke from the head of the House of Bedford, explained away the odious proposition, " that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" The right honourable Ex-secretary, who represents a large manufacturing city, which has been scratched... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...distraction of the times, and the consequent ' On the IQth of April, 1653. f In this instance certainly the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and I am rather surprised that the Prelate, (Dr. Horsley at that time bishop of Rochester,) who made... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 688 pages
...a person of high authority, considerable talents, and great learning (the Bishop of Rochester) had said, that the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. And this strange assertion had been made by a member of that order, . who beyond all others were taught... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 498 pages
...dignified person could be so indiscreet, and so ignorant of the principles of our constitution to say,) " The mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them!" •Sir Edward Knatchbull explained again that he did not mean to throw any reflection on the persons... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 874 pages
...licentious freedom of remark or complaint might be strictly and vigilantly repressed ; adding, that the " people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." \Vhen he was reproved for this imperious declaration, he qualified it by allowing that individuals... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1818 - 812 pages
...a person of high authority, considerable talents, and great learning (the bishop of Rochester), had said, that the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. And this strange assertion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others were taught... | |
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