The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... Member for the University of Oxford * , challenges us to show , that the Constitution was ever better than it is ... Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness ...
... Member for the University of Oxford * , challenges us to show , that the Constitution was ever better than it is ... Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness ...
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... Member for the University of Oxford , has collected numerous instances of the tyranny which the kings and nobles ... Members to York as they gave to London , because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus ...
... Member for the University of Oxford , has collected numerous instances of the tyranny which the kings and nobles ... Members to York as they gave to London , because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus ...
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... Members of Parliament , there would probably be able men among them . We read in ancient history , that a very able ... Member for Newport . * He tells us that the elective franchise is property ; that to take it away from a man who has ...
... Members of Parliament , there would probably be able men among them . We read in ancient history , that a very able ... Member for Newport . * He tells us that the elective franchise is property ; that to take it away from a man who has ...
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... Member for Newport be sound , the franchise of the Irish peasant was property . That fran- Ichise the Ministers under whom the honorable and learned Member held office did not scruple to take away . Will he accuse those Ministers of ...
... Member for Newport be sound , the franchise of the Irish peasant was property . That fran- Ichise the Ministers under whom the honorable and learned Member held office did not scruple to take away . Will he accuse those Ministers of ...
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... member for Sud- bury , moved , as an amendment , that the bill should be read that day six months . After a discussion , which lasted three nights , the amendment was rejected by 367 votes to 231 , and the original motion was carried ...
... member for Sud- bury , moved , as an amendment , that the bill should be read that day six months . After a discussion , which lasted three nights , the amendment was rejected by 367 votes to 231 , and the original motion was carried ...
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