The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... wish to see them , if employment were always plenti- ful , wages always high , food always cheap , if a large family were considered not as an encumbrance but as a blessing , the principal objections to Universal Suffrage would , I ...
... wish to see them , if employment were always plenti- ful , wages always high , food always cheap , if a large family were considered not as an encumbrance but as a blessing , the principal objections to Universal Suffrage would , I ...
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... wishes of Manchester , he asks , as much consulted as those of any town which sends Members to Parliament ? Now , Sir , I do not understand how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly ...
... wishes of Manchester , he asks , as much consulted as those of any town which sends Members to Parliament ? Now , Sir , I do not understand how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly ...
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... wishes to dethrone the King ? Who wishes to turn the Lords out of their House ? Here and there a crazy radical , whom the boys in the street point at as he walks along . Who wishes to alter the consti- tution of this House ? The whole ...
... wishes to dethrone the King ? Who wishes to turn the Lords out of their House ? Here and there a crazy radical , whom the boys in the street point at as he walks along . Who wishes to alter the consti- tution of this House ? The whole ...
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... wish it to be ; but it is founded on a great and a sound prin- ciple . It takes away a vast power from a few . It distributes that power through the great mass of the middle order . Every man , therefore , who thinks as I think is bound ...
... wish it to be ; but it is founded on a great and a sound prin- ciple . It takes away a vast power from a few . It distributes that power through the great mass of the middle order . Every man , therefore , who thinks as I think is bound ...
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... wish to uphold the Royal prerogatives and the constitutional rights of the Peers . What facts does my honorable friend produce in support of his opinion ? One fact only ; and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the ...
... wish to uphold the Royal prerogatives and the constitutional rights of the Peers . What facts does my honorable friend produce in support of his opinion ? One fact only ; and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the ...
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