On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to William Smith, 1817.-On the rise and progress of popular disaffection, 1817.-On the means of improving the people, 1818.-Two letters concerning Lord Byron, 1822-1824.-On emigration, 1828.-On the Catholic question, 1809, 1812, 1828John Murray, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... Never within our memory have the aspects appeared so threatening as at present . No foresight can avail against fatuity , and the desperate coun- cils of demented men : but even the sceptical Bayle has remarked that in such emergencies ...
... Never within our memory have the aspects appeared so threatening as at present . No foresight can avail against fatuity , and the desperate coun- cils of demented men : but even the sceptical Bayle has remarked that in such emergencies ...
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... never justly be reproached by others , nor have cause to reproach ourselves , be the issue what it may . Accept then as a token and a memorial of friendship these Essays , wherein , during the course of two and twenty years I have ...
... never justly be reproached by others , nor have cause to reproach ourselves , be the issue what it may . Accept then as a token and a memorial of friendship these Essays , wherein , during the course of two and twenty years I have ...
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... never to render him their enemy . Such would be the consequence of making the government subordinate to public opinion . Pub- * 1 Samuel , c . xxii . v . 2 . lic opinion has already attained in this country the utmost 12 ON SIR F ...
... never to render him their enemy . Such would be the consequence of making the government subordinate to public opinion . Pub- * 1 Samuel , c . xxii . v . 2 . lic opinion has already attained in this country the utmost 12 ON SIR F ...
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... never come in contact : he could have no bias to comply ' with their opinions ; perhaps he had never seen ' them . He felt and acted as the representative ' of his 5000l .; and when he was versed in the system of ministerial management ...
... never come in contact : he could have no bias to comply ' with their opinions ; perhaps he had never seen ' them . He felt and acted as the representative ' of his 5000l .; and when he was versed in the system of ministerial management ...
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... never negligent in performing its work of mischief ; and thus they succeeded in engaging public attention , while the measures of real utility to the service which were proposed or effected by its true friends were unheeded , and ...
... never negligent in performing its work of mischief ; and thus they succeeded in engaging public attention , while the measures of real utility to the service which were proposed or effected by its true friends were unheeded , and ...
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Page 375 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 421 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Page 174 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Page 184 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Page 85 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Page 11 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 174 - Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Page 92 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders...
Page 373 - More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter, for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him, and said, father...
Page 173 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...