A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress, Band 1Chatto & Windus, 1879 |
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Seite 369 - A good government for the country," said the sturdy and simple old hero, " is more important than corn laws or any other consideration." One may smile at this notion of a good government without reference to the quality of the legislation it introduces ; it reminds one a little of the celebrated study of history without reference to time and place.
Seite 161 - June making them punishable as high misdemeanours by transportation for seven years, or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three years, — the culprit ' to be publicly or privately whipped, as often, and in such manner and form, as the Court shall direct, not exceeding thrice.
Seite 42 - Whose nobility comes to thee, stamp'd with a seal, Far, far more ennobling than monarch e'er set ; With the blood of thy race, offer'd up for the weal Of a nation, that swears by that martyrdom yet...
Seite 392 - O'CONNELL, Although you have long placed yourself out of the pale of civilisation, still I am one who will not be insulted, even by a Yahoo, without chastising it.
Seite 95 - will have to carry twelve times as much weight, and therefore the charge for transmission instead of £100,000, as now, must be twelve times that amount. The walls of the post office would burst, the whole area in which the building stands would not be large enough to receive the clerks and the letters.
Seite 312 - And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her ... let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Seite 365 - Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.
Seite 364 - It is no longer worth while to contend for a fixed duty. In 1841 the free-trade party would have agreed to a duty of 8s. a quarter on wheat, and after a lapse of years this duty might have been further reduced, and ultimately abolished. But the imposition of any duty at present, without a provision for its extinction within a short period, would but prolong a contest already sufficiently fruitful of animosity and discontent.
Seite 377 - I recommend you to take into your early consideration, whether the principles on which you have acted may not with advantage be yet more extensively applied, and whether it may not be in your power, after a careful review of the existing duties upon many articles, the produce or manufacture of other countries, to make such further reductions and remissions as may tend to...
Seite 367 - But if this end is to be achieved, it must be gained by the unequivocal expression of the public voice. It is not to be denied that many elections for cities and towns in 1841, and some in 1845, appear to favour the assertion that Free Trade is not popular with the great mass of the community.