Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... course of my life . always sorry for the attack upon the Lord Chancellor , not only because I believe the charge against him to be untrue , but if true , I am one of those who would draw a very different con- clusion for the poverty of ...
... course of my life . always sorry for the attack upon the Lord Chancellor , not only because I believe the charge against him to be untrue , but if true , I am one of those who would draw a very different con- clusion for the poverty of ...
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... course , on retailing the seed , which I " supplication ; and time having only shall do at the common retail price , " confirmed them in the correctness of selling from one pound to any number " their opinions , they have now only to of ...
... course , on retailing the seed , which I " supplication ; and time having only shall do at the common retail price , " confirmed them in the correctness of selling from one pound to any number " their opinions , they have now only to of ...
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... course of my life . Of this immense would be ungrateful in me not to notice parish , the benefice belongs to that the handsome conduct of the printer of Parson HAY , who received it as a gift the " Preston Chronicle , " a paper which ...
... course of my life . Of this immense would be ungrateful in me not to notice parish , the benefice belongs to that the handsome conduct of the printer of Parson HAY , who received it as a gift the " Preston Chronicle , " a paper which ...
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... course it proposed to pur- will not be turmoil without end , and final cou - sue in the next Session of Parliament . This vulsion ? some of the more active of them being magis- refusal being signified to the requisitionists , trates ...
... course it proposed to pur- will not be turmoil without end , and final cou - sue in the next Session of Parliament . This vulsion ? some of the more active of them being magis- refusal being signified to the requisitionists , trates ...
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... course of four hours ; a thing which the Parliament , with all its advantages , found it difficult enough to perform in the course of four Sessions ? Under these circum- stances , he intended to move the resolution which he held in his ...
... course of four hours ; a thing which the Parliament , with all its advantages , found it difficult enough to perform in the course of four Sessions ? Under these circum- stances , he intended to move the resolution which he held in his ...
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Page 641 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 501 - Enter them, and look at the bits of chairs or stools; the wretched boards tacked together, to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags on the backs of the wretched inhabitants...
Page 597 - ... even the cottagers, deprived of the commons on which they formerly fed their cattle, were reduced to misery : and a decay of people, as well as a diminution of the former plenty, was remarked in the kingdom...
Page 177 - I have directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. They have been framed with every attention to economy which the circumstances of the country will permit...
Page 101 - Judicial forms do not easily lend themselves to an effectual repression. This truth has long since struck reflecting minds ; it has lately become still more evident. To satisfy the wants which caused its institution, the repression ought to be prompt and strong; it has been slow, weak, and almost null. When it interferes, the mischief is already done, and the punishment, far from repairing it, only adds the scandal of the discussion.