The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... society was convulsed by political dissension , and when the foundations of government were shaking , were heard by an excited audience with sympathy and applause , may , now that the passions of all parties have subsided , be thought ...
... society was convulsed by political dissension , and when the foundations of government were shaking , were heard by an excited audience with sympathy and applause , may , now that the passions of all parties have subsided , be thought ...
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... societies in which every man may safely be admitted to vote . Gentlemen may cheer , but such is my opinion . I say , Sir , that there are countries in which the condition of the * Sir John Walsh . labouring classes is such that they may ...
... societies in which every man may safely be admitted to vote . Gentlemen may cheer , but such is my opinion . I say , Sir , that there are countries in which the condition of the * Sir John Walsh . labouring classes is such that they may ...
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... society , for the sake of the labouring classes themselves , I hold it to be clearly expedient that , in a country like this , the right of suffrage should depend on a pecuniary qualification . But , Sir , every argument which would ...
... society , for the sake of the labouring classes themselves , I hold it to be clearly expedient that , in a country like this , the right of suffrage should depend on a pecuniary qualification . But , Sir , every argument which would ...
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... society rose into importance . There were in our rural districts rich cultivators , who were not freeholders . There were in our capital rich traders , who were not liverymen . Towns shrank into villages . Villages swelled into cities ...
... society rose into importance . There were in our rural districts rich cultivators , who were not freeholders . There were in our capital rich traders , who were not liverymen . Towns shrank into villages . Villages swelled into cities ...
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... society under the old 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 ...
... society under the old 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 ...
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