Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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Page 47
... pensioners fact , however notorious , that has a and sinecurists sitting in Parliament , tendency to bring parties like these into had , in fact , doubled the amount of contempt ? To remonstrate with these their own places , pensions ...
... pensioners fact , however notorious , that has a and sinecurists sitting in Parliament , tendency to bring parties like these into had , in fact , doubled the amount of contempt ? To remonstrate with these their own places , pensions ...
Page 83
... pensions or of salaries , the portion that How long shall we , then , keep our si- they have paid , and divide the rest lence while in this state of disgrace ? among themselves besides . They will We ourselves deserve the disgrace if ...
... pensions or of salaries , the portion that How long shall we , then , keep our si- they have paid , and divide the rest lence while in this state of disgrace ? among themselves besides . They will We ourselves deserve the disgrace if ...
Page 115
... pensions , every deficiency in the taxes might be supplied . ( Cheers . ) A great deal of talk was made about the necessity of keeping the national faith with the public creditor ; but in his opinion the doing so would be the breaking ...
... pensions , every deficiency in the taxes might be supplied . ( Cheers . ) A great deal of talk was made about the necessity of keeping the national faith with the public creditor ; but in his opinion the doing so would be the breaking ...
Page 159
... pensions and salaries , had been a meeting at Doncaster , a few and all the expenses of a thundering stand- ing army , will continue to be made up by days before I went to Leeds from Rip- taxes , by loans from the bank , by exchequer ...
... pensions and salaries , had been a meeting at Doncaster , a few and all the expenses of a thundering stand- ing army , will continue to be made up by days before I went to Leeds from Rip- taxes , by loans from the bank , by exchequer ...
Page 161
... pensions and salaries , " and all the expenses of a thundering stand- ing army , will continue to be made up by taxes , by loans from the bank , by exchequer " bills , by every species of contrivance , to the " last possible moment ...
... pensions and salaries , " and all the expenses of a thundering stand- ing army , will continue to be made up by taxes , by loans from the bank , by exchequer " bills , by every species of contrivance , to the " last possible moment ...
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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.