Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... body suppose that the price of labour will not pork , and butter , to a very large amount . " But it is not the Irish peasantry who alone bour , when the fall is occasioned by SCARCITY go down with the price of the product of la- have ...
... body suppose that the price of labour will not pork , and butter , to a very large amount . " But it is not the Irish peasantry who alone bour , when the fall is occasioned by SCARCITY go down with the price of the product of la- have ...
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... body on the same sort of land , if the prin tiples of this book be attended to , and its precepts strictly obeyed . YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA ; treat- ing of the Face of the Country , the ( limate , the Soil , the Products , the Mode ...
... body on the same sort of land , if the prin tiples of this book be attended to , and its precepts strictly obeyed . YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA ; treat- ing of the Face of the Country , the ( limate , the Soil , the Products , the Mode ...
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... body on the same sort of land , if the prin ciples of this book be attended to , and its precepts strictly obeyed . X YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA ; treat- ing of the Face of the Country , the Climate , the Soil , the Products , the Mode ...
... body on the same sort of land , if the prin ciples of this book be attended to , and its precepts strictly obeyed . X YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA ; treat- ing of the Face of the Country , the Climate , the Soil , the Products , the Mode ...
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... body by the higher orders , under constitutional forms and names . In this system , which the English Government understands prodigiously well , the power of making the laws be- longs exclusively to the members of the aristocracy ...
... body by the higher orders , under constitutional forms and names . In this system , which the English Government understands prodigiously well , the power of making the laws be- longs exclusively to the members of the aristocracy ...
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... body . To describe the thing properly , the English Parliament performs the office of a pump ; it sucks up the wealth produced by the working classes , and turns it over into the hands of the fami- lies of the aristocracy . But as it is ...
... body . To describe the thing properly , the English Parliament performs the office of a pump ; it sucks up the wealth produced by the working classes , and turns it over into the hands of the fami- lies of the aristocracy . But as it is ...
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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.