The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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Page 16
... thousand inhabitants would be left without Representatives in the nineteenth century , merely because it stood on ground which , in the thirteenth century , had been occupied by a few huts . They framed a representa- tive system , which ...
... thousand inhabitants would be left without Representatives in the nineteenth century , merely because it stood on ground which , in the thirteenth century , had been occupied by a few huts . They framed a representa- tive system , which ...
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... thousands of electors who had not forty shilling freeholds . Was that robbery ? How was the fran- chise in the Irish counties fixed ? By the Act of George the Fourth which disfranchised tens of thousands of electors who had not ten ...
... thousands of electors who had not forty shilling freeholds . Was that robbery ? How was the fran- chise in the Irish counties fixed ? By the Act of George the Fourth which disfranchised tens of thousands of electors who had not ten ...
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... thousands of square miles of fir and heath into cornfields and orchards , will continue to operate . Who can say that a hun- dred years hence there may not be , on the shore of some desolate and silent bay in the Hebrides , another ...
... thousands of square miles of fir and heath into cornfields and orchards , will continue to operate . Who can say that a hun- dred years hence there may not be , on the shore of some desolate and silent bay in the Hebrides , another ...
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... thousand insurgents appeared in arms on Blackheath , when a foul murder perpetrated in their presence had raised their passions to madness , when they were looking round for some captain to succeed and avenge him whom they had lost ...
... thousand insurgents appeared in arms on Blackheath , when a foul murder perpetrated in their presence had raised their passions to madness , when they were looking round for some captain to succeed and avenge him whom they had lost ...
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... thousand electors ? " " Yes , " says the noble Marquess , " and much more than that . I will create constituent bodies of forty thousand , sixty thousand , a hundred thousand . I will add Marylebone to Westminster . I will add Lambeth ...
... thousand electors ? " " Yes , " says the noble Marquess , " and much more than that . I will create constituent bodies of forty thousand , sixty thousand , a hundred thousand . I will add Marylebone to Westminster . I will add Lambeth ...
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