The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lordt has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he represents , was not larger in the time of Edward the First than it is at present . The line of its walls , he assures ...
... means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lordt has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he represents , was not larger in the time of Edward the First than it is at present . The line of its walls , he assures ...
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... means that ever supported a Cabinet . My honorable friend , the Member for the University of Oxford , tells us , that if we pass this law , England will soon be a republic . The reformed House of Commons will , ac- cording to him ...
... means that ever supported a Cabinet . My honorable friend , the Member for the University of Oxford , tells us , that if we pass this law , England will soon be a republic . The reformed House of Commons will , ac- cording to him ...
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... means , and not as ends . The end of government is the happiness of the people : and I do not conceive that , in a country like this , the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of government in which the middle classes place ...
... means , and not as ends . The end of government is the happiness of the people : and I do not conceive that , in a country like this , the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of government in which the middle classes place ...
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... mean to say that a Tory Reform Bill will leave no anomalies in the representative system ? For my own part , I trouble myself not at all about anomalies , considered merely as anomalies . I would not take the trouble of lifting up my ...
... mean to say that a Tory Reform Bill will leave no anomalies in the representative system ? For my own part , I trouble myself not at all about anomalies , considered merely as anomalies . I would not take the trouble of lifting up my ...
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... means intend to encourage those chimerical hopes which the honorable and learned Member for Rye * , who has so much distinguished himself in this debate , has imputed to the Reformers . The people , he says , are for the bill , because ...
... means intend to encourage those chimerical hopes which the honorable and learned Member for Rye * , who has so much distinguished himself in this debate , has imputed to the Reformers . The people , he says , are for the bill , because ...
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