Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... effect ; and having filled the theatre to the utmost , pit , distinctly proposed three different re- boxes and gallery . At the first lec- medies for the same evil , let me hope ture , I adhered to the London charge of that you will now ...
... effect ; and having filled the theatre to the utmost , pit , distinctly proposed three different re- boxes and gallery . At the first lec- medies for the same evil , let me hope ture , I adhered to the London charge of that you will now ...
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... effect only of skill and industry , and of ple will , however , soon find out . The cheap raw produce ; at least such ap people , I say , will soon discern that PEARS to be their object , for the fall in CHEAP BREAD means only DEAR ...
... effect only of skill and industry , and of ple will , however , soon find out . The cheap raw produce ; at least such ap people , I say , will soon discern that PEARS to be their object , for the fall in CHEAP BREAD means only DEAR ...
Page 135
... effect ? What is that but PROOF that the value of our MONEY has , ac- cording to his own admission , since that time , RISEN thirty per cent .; and that seventy pounds sterling now is just as much as one hundred was then ; or , that the ...
... effect ? What is that but PROOF that the value of our MONEY has , ac- cording to his own admission , since that time , RISEN thirty per cent .; and that seventy pounds sterling now is just as much as one hundred was then ; or , that the ...
Page 147
... effect , years ago . But your insolent times over , in my warnings to the Go- aristocratic pride would not allow you vernment and Parliament , you might to acknowledge this ; and so you endea- have quoted him with some show of vour to ...
... effect , years ago . But your insolent times over , in my warnings to the Go- aristocratic pride would not allow you vernment and Parliament , you might to acknowledge this ; and so you endea- have quoted him with some show of vour to ...
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... effect lighted than with my audience at Leeds ; " is not of that kind which enables people to and what I set the highest value on , is , pay taxes . In all human probability , then , that I find I produced a prodigious " the whole of ...
... effect lighted than with my audience at Leeds ; " is not of that kind which enables people to and what I set the highest value on , is , pay taxes . In all human probability , then , that I find I produced a prodigious " the whole of ...
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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.