 The day will come when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.  Modern Political Orations - Page 135by Leopold Wagner - 1896 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Criticism - 1865 - 836 pages
...good deliverance. But my reason and my wishes are at war ; and I cannot help foreboding the worst. It is quite plain that your government will never...restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with yon the majority is the government, aid has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...contrast to such u passage, to recall Macaulay's wellknown letter to a gentleman in New York in 1857. "The day will come when, in the State of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 404 pages
...good deliverance. But my reason and my wishes are at war, and I can not help foreboding the worst. It is quite plain that your government will never...when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom have had more than half a breakfast, or expect to have more than half a dinner, will choose... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...a good deliverance. But my reason and my wishes are at war, and I cannot help foreboding the worst. It is quite plain that your Government will never...multitude of people, not one of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a Legislature. Is it possible... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1861 - 604 pages
...good deliverance. But my reason and my wishes are at war, and I cannot help foreboding the •worst. It is quite plain that your Government will never...majority, for with you the majority is the Government, aud has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when, in the... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...you a good deliverance. But myiwson and my wishes are at war, and I cannot help foreboding the WOI& It is quite plain that your Government will never be able to f^bain a distressed and discontented majority, for with you the majority j8 w Government, and has the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 478 pages
...in his famous letter to Mr. Randall, finds the chief danger to our institutions, where he says : " The day will come when, in the State of New York,...multitude of people, not one of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or ex* " America exhibits in her social state an extraordinary phenomenon. Men are... | |
 | Robert Lowe Sherbrooke (Viscount) - History - 1867 - 224 pages
...should like to quote the words of Lord Macaulay, one of the most able of the advocates of the principle of the Reform Bill of 1832, from which he never went...discontented " majority, for with you the majority is the Govern" ment, and has the rich, who are always a minority, " absolutely at its mercy. The day will... | |
 | Robert Lowe (1st visct. Sherbrooke.) - 1867 - 224 pages
...should like to quote the words of Lord Macaulay, one of the most able of the advocates of the principle of the Reform Bill of 1832, from which he never went...discontented " majority, for with you the majority is the Govern" ment, and has the rich, who are always a minority, " absolutely at its mercy. The day will... | |
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