The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... prove that , by the ancient constitution of the realm , this House ought to be a tool of the king and of the aristocracy , than the Benevolences and the Shipmoney prove their own legality , or than those unjustifiable arrests , which ...
... prove that , by the ancient constitution of the realm , this House ought to be a tool of the king and of the aristocracy , than the Benevolences and the Shipmoney prove their own legality , or than those unjustifiable arrests , which ...
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... proved that these expedients were mere palliatives . You are at the end of your palliatives . The evil remains . It ... prove this , he would have succeeded in bringing an argument for democracy , infinitely stronger than any that is to ...
... proved that these expedients were mere palliatives . You are at the end of your palliatives . The evil remains . It ... prove this , he would have succeeded in bringing an argument for democracy , infinitely stronger than any that is to ...
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... proved against the voters in the closed boroughs ; that no crime is even im- puted to them in the preamble of the bill ; and that therefore to disfranchise them without compensation would be an act of revolutionary tyranny . The ...
... proved against the voters in the closed boroughs ; that no crime is even im- puted to them in the preamble of the bill ; and that therefore to disfranchise them without compensation would be an act of revolutionary tyranny . The ...
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... proved , or a com- pensation given , be robbery , was there ever such an act of robbery as the disfranchising of the Irish forty shilling free- holders ? Was any pecuniary compensation given to them ? Is it declared in the preamble of ...
... proved , or a com- pensation given , be robbery , was there ever such an act of robbery as the disfranchising of the Irish forty shilling free- holders ? Was any pecuniary compensation given to them ? Is it declared in the preamble of ...
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... prove . You begin by ascribing to the franchises of Old Sarum the sacredness of property ; and you end , na- turally enough , I must own , by treating the rights of pro- perty as lightly as I should be inclined to treat the franchises ...
... prove . You begin by ascribing to the franchises of Old Sarum the sacredness of property ; and you end , na- turally enough , I must own , by treating the rights of pro- perty as lightly as I should be inclined to treat the franchises ...
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