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... abuse on men whose memory is justly dear to the hearts of a great people ; - men mighty even in their weaknesses , and wise even in their fanaticism ; -the goodly fellowship of our reformers , the noble army of our martyrs . Their ...
... abuse on men whose memory is justly dear to the hearts of a great people ; - men mighty even in their weaknesses , and wise even in their fanaticism ; -the goodly fellowship of our reformers , the noble army of our martyrs . Their ...
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... abuses in any system by which they could profit , and who , by their follies and vices , would aggravate all the evils springing from defective institutions . But were we to admit the truth of every charge which personal enemies or ...
... abuses in any system by which they could profit , and who , by their follies and vices , would aggravate all the evils springing from defective institutions . But were we to admit the truth of every charge which personal enemies or ...
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... John . They will return pledged to oppose every reform , to maintain a constant struggle against the spirit of the age , to defend abuses to which the nation is every day becoming more quick - ENGLISH POLITICS IN 1827 . 29.
... John . They will return pledged to oppose every reform , to maintain a constant struggle against the spirit of the age , to defend abuses to which the nation is every day becoming more quick - ENGLISH POLITICS IN 1827 . 29.
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... abuses , would be reconciled to the most startling novelties . A strong democratic party would be formed in the educated class . In the lowest , and most numerous order of the population , those who have any opinions at all are de ...
... abuses , would be reconciled to the most startling novelties . A strong democratic party would be formed in the educated class . In the lowest , and most numerous order of the population , those who have any opinions at all are de ...
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... Abuses were numerous ; public burdens heavy ; a spirit of innovation was abroad among the people . The philosophical minister attempted to secure the ancient institutions , by amending them . The mild reforms which he projected , had ...
... Abuses were numerous ; public burdens heavy ; a spirit of innovation was abroad among the people . The philosophical minister attempted to secure the ancient institutions , by amending them . The mild reforms which he projected , had ...
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Page 86 - What facts does my hon. friend produce in support of his opinion? One fact only; and that a fact which has absolutely nothing to do with the question. The effect of this Reform, he tells us, would be to make the House of Commons all-powerful. It was all-powerful once before, in the beginning of 1649. Then it cut off the head of the King, and abolished the House of Peers. Therefore, if it again has the supreme power, it will act in the same manner. Now, Sir, it was not the House of Commons that cut...
Page 254 - Calcutta moneymarket — if the questions of Suttee or no Suttee, Pilgrim tax or no Pilgrim tax, Ryotwary or Zemindary, half Batta or whole Batta, were to be debated at the same length at which we have debated Church reform and the assessed taxes, twenty-four hours a day and three hundred and sixty-five days a year would be too short a time for the discharge of our duties.
Page 84 - I have read history to little purpose. Sir, this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year. If there be any symptoms by which it is possible to distinguish the chronic diseases of the body politic from its passing inflammations, all those symptoms exist in the present case. The taint has been gradually becoming more extensive and more malignant, through the whole lifetime of two generations.
Page 125 - The law has no eyes: the law has no hands : the law is nothing, nothing but a piece of paper printed by the King's printer, with the King's arms at the top, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter.
Page 131 - Blackheath, — when a foul murder, perpetrated in their presence, had raised their passions to madness, — when they were looking round for some Captain to succeed and avenge him whom they had lost, — just then, before Hob Miller, or Tom Carter, or Jack Straw, could place himself at their head, the King rode up to them, and exclaimed, "I will be your leader!
Page 391 - We have, then, only one resource left. We must betake ourselves to copyright, be the inconveniences of copyright what they may. Those inconveniences, in truth, are neither few nor small. Copyright is monopoly, and produces all the effects which the general voice of mankind attributes to monopoly.
Page 89 - Sir, to undertake the defence of gentlemen who are so well able to defend themselves. I will only say that, in my opinion, the country will not think worse either of their capacity or of their patriotism, because they have shown that they can profit by experience, because they have learned to see the folly of delaying inevitable changes. There are others who ought to have learned the same lesson. I say, Sir, that there are those who, I should have thought, must have had enough to last them all their...
Page 390 - Lewis the Fourteenth in France, of Lord Halifax and Lord Oxford in this country. Now, sir, I well know that there are cases in which it is fit and graceful, nay, in which it is a sacred duty to reward the merits or to relieve the distresses of men of genius by the exercise of this species of liberality.
Page 268 - ... applied himself to them, exactly as likely to perform all the offices of public life with credit to himself and with advantage to society. Whether the English system of education be good or bad is not now the question. Perhaps I may think that too much time is given to the ancient languages and to the abstract sciences. But what then ? Whatever be the languages, whatever be the sciences, which it is in any age or country the fashion to teach, the persons who become the greatest proficients in...
Page 91 - Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us: Reform, that you may preserve. Now, therefore, while everything at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age; now, while the crash of the proudest throne of the continent is still resounding in our ears; now, while the roof of a British palace affords an ignominious shelter to the sxiled heir of forty kings...