Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... ruin . What ! here are thing that any of their countrymen can the Grand Jury of the county of Kent say in mitigation , and in this spirit it is declaring the country to be in a state of that I here insert the following article ...
... ruin . What ! here are thing that any of their countrymen can the Grand Jury of the county of Kent say in mitigation , and in this spirit it is declaring the country to be in a state of that I here insert the following article ...
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... ruin and tablished , or lost entirely , for our time . a dungeon , like Damocles under the We do not ourselves contemplate such hair - hung sword . Any accident , how- a manifestation on the part of our ever inevitable ; any adversary ...
... ruin and tablished , or lost entirely , for our time . a dungeon , like Damocles under the We do not ourselves contemplate such hair - hung sword . Any accident , how- a manifestation on the part of our ever inevitable ; any adversary ...
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... it may save from utter ruin , N.B. Their Shop is No. 93 , Fleet Street . Printed by William Cobbett , Johnson's - court ; and published by him , at 183 , Fleet street . # 2 • 4 4 Y f . LONDON , 63 64 ADVERTISEMENTS .
... it may save from utter ruin , N.B. Their Shop is No. 93 , Fleet Street . Printed by William Cobbett , Johnson's - court ; and published by him , at 183 , Fleet street . # 2 • 4 4 Y f . LONDON , 63 64 ADVERTISEMENTS .
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... ruin of the rich amongst the middle class ; of the great embarrassments of the whole of that class ; of the degradation of the whole of that class , and of the half - starvation of their working - people . But grievous as this news must ...
... ruin of the rich amongst the middle class ; of the great embarrassments of the whole of that class ; of the degradation of the whole of that class , and of the half - starvation of their working - people . But grievous as this news must ...
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... ruin so many hundreds of thousands of happy fami- lies ; you must confess that you have done this in mere sport , in the mere wantonness of cruelty ; or , that you have done it through the most profound ignorance . If you persevere ...
... ruin so many hundreds of thousands of happy fami- lies ; you must confess that you have done this in mere sport , in the mere wantonness of cruelty ; or , that you have done it through the most profound ignorance . If you persevere ...
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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.