 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 876 pages
...at large are as perfectly ignorant of the acts of parliament, after they are made, as they possibly can be before. They are printed by one man only, who...is called the King's printer — in the old German characters, which few men can read — and sold at a price that few can afford to pay. But, lest some... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1926 - 592 pages
...at large are as perfectly ignorant of the acts of parliament after they are made, as they possibly can be before. They are printed by one man only, who...German character, which few men can read, — and sold at a price that few can afford to pay. But lest some scraps or comments upon them should come... | |
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... great object of their policy is to perpetuate that undisturbed ignorance of the people, which is the companion of poverty, the parent of crimes, and the pillar of the state. In England, the people at large are as perfectly ignorant of the acts of... 