Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... taxes ; but before the sen- tence is out , before the change comes to a close , I always find my ears dinned with the accursed big bell ; and I have observed that you never write one single paragraph , at the most , without con- vincing ...
... taxes ; but before the sen- tence is out , before the change comes to a close , I always find my ears dinned with the accursed big bell ; and I have observed that you never write one single paragraph , at the most , without con- vincing ...
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... taxes , will never fail to produce the our commodities sold , and half our labourers attendant misery I have described , and which employed ; or they each must be content with we are experiencing now . It is difficult for half what they ...
... taxes , will never fail to produce the our commodities sold , and half our labourers attendant misery I have described , and which employed ; or they each must be content with we are experiencing now . It is difficult for half what they ...
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... taxes . the throne ; they choose this rather than This is what I said in my petition to a return to low taxes , in which taxes the Parliament at the time when the they , their sons , their kindred , their de- present law lay before them ...
... taxes . the throne ; they choose this rather than This is what I said in my petition to a return to low taxes , in which taxes the Parliament at the time when the they , their sons , their kindred , their de- present law lay before them ...
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... tax ; but his object was to petition that all the taxes should be done away with ( Bravo , and a laugh ) ; he meant all the taxes on malt and beer . In his opinion , the increased consump- tion would do nothing towards keeping the tax ...
... tax ; but his object was to petition that all the taxes should be done away with ( Bravo , and a laugh ) ; he meant all the taxes on malt and beer . In his opinion , the increased consump- tion would do nothing towards keeping the tax ...
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... taxes fall prin- cipally upon the middle and labouring classes ; and that the effect is to demoralise the one and to make the other dissatisfied . " We , your petitioners , therefore , humbly pray your Honourable House that you would be ...
... taxes fall prin- cipally upon the middle and labouring classes ; and that the effect is to demoralise the one and to make the other dissatisfied . " We , your petitioners , therefore , humbly pray your Honourable House that you would be ...
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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.