Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... classes , since the termination of the war , and which presses upon them now , has been owing to the mon- strous act of doubling the value of the cur- rency by contracting it nearly , if not quite , one - half , and thus leaving the ...
... classes , since the termination of the war , and which presses upon them now , has been owing to the mon- strous act of doubling the value of the cur- rency by contracting it nearly , if not quite , one - half , and thus leaving the ...
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... classes ; in fact , next to NONE AMONG ANY CLASS . ' " " These several communications afford dread- ful and unequivocal proof of the distress of the Irish population having originated in a famine of money instead of food ; and yet our ...
... classes ; in fact , next to NONE AMONG ANY CLASS . ' " " These several communications afford dread- ful and unequivocal proof of the distress of the Irish population having originated in a famine of money instead of food ; and yet our ...
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... classes ; there , and there only shall this defect he felt . Mr. Locke would say , Your rulers must be mad ; con- fusion , dreadful , must be the end of it : and yet this is precisely what HAS been done . When Lord Liverpool admitted ...
... classes ; there , and there only shall this defect he felt . Mr. Locke would say , Your rulers must be mad ; con- fusion , dreadful , must be the end of it : and yet this is precisely what HAS been done . When Lord Liverpool admitted ...
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... classes throughout this county , to a degree " that must not only be ruinous to the interests of individuals , but must also , at no distant period , be attended with serious consequences to the na- " tional prosperity . 66 " " 66 " In ...
... classes throughout this county , to a degree " that must not only be ruinous to the interests of individuals , but must also , at no distant period , be attended with serious consequences to the na- " tional prosperity . 66 " " 66 " In ...
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... class , and particularly the richer part of the middle class , that the lower class had in view nothing but the taking ... classes have begun to perceive that their interests are one and the same ; and that seat - selling , that infamous ...
... class , and particularly the richer part of the middle class , that the lower class had in view nothing but the taking ... classes have begun to perceive that their interests are one and the same ; and that seat - selling , that infamous ...
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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.