The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... institutions of our country . I understand those cheers : but surely the gentlemen who utter them will allow that the change which will be made in our institutions by this bill is far less violent than that which , according to the ...
... institutions of our country . I understand those cheers : but surely the gentlemen who utter them will allow that the change which will be made in our institutions by this bill is far less violent than that which , according to the ...
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... institutions of the country would be overturned by popular violence . Was he then accused of threatening the House ? Will any gentleman say that it is parliamentary and decorous to urge the danger arising from popular discontent as an ...
... institutions of the country would be overturned by popular violence . Was he then accused of threatening the House ? Will any gentleman say that it is parliamentary and decorous to urge the danger arising from popular discontent as an ...
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... institutions gave Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness have no right to say that they are recurring to the original principle of our representative ...
... institutions gave Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness have no right to say that they are recurring to the original principle of our representative ...
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... institutions . It is now time for us to pay a decent , a rational , a manly reverence to our ancestors , not by superstitiously adhering to what they , in other circum- stances , did , but by doing what they , in our circumstances ...
... institutions . It is now time for us to pay a decent , a rational , a manly reverence to our ancestors , not by superstitiously adhering to what they , in other circum- stances , did , but by doing what they , in our circumstances ...
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... institutions have no hold on the public mind of Eng- land ; that these institutions are regarded with aversion by a decided majority of the middle class . This , Sir , I say , is plainly deducible from his proposition ; for he tells us ...
... institutions have no hold on the public mind of Eng- land ; that these institutions are regarded with aversion by a decided majority of the middle class . This , Sir , I say , is plainly deducible from his proposition ; for he tells us ...
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