The History of Reform: A Record of the Struggle for the Representation of the People in ParliamentRoutledge, 1884 - 278 pages |
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Page 39 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 21 - Dunning to carry the celebrated motion declaring " that the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
Page 165 - God is our guide ! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom, We come our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom ; And hark ! we raise from sea to sea, The sacred watchword, Liberty. God is our guide ! no swords we draw, We kindle not war's battle fires ; By union, justice, reason, law, We claim the birthright of our sires ; We raise the watchword, Liberty, We will, we will, we will be free...
Page 39 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 231 - One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a Voter, and, when registered, to vote for a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for a Borough, who is qualified as follows; (that is to say,) 1.
Page 235 - An Act to amend the Representation of the People in Scotland ; " and in Schedule A of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868. 61. The provisions of the Act of the session of the second and third years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-five...
Page 241 - board of guardians" shall, as respects Ireland, mean a board of guardians elected under the Act of the Session of the first and second years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fifty-six, intituled " An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland...
Page 231 - Where a man himself inhabits any dwelling-house by virtue of any office, service, or employment, and the dwelling-house is not inhabited by any person under whom such man serves in such office, service, or employment, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act and of the Representation of the People Acts to be an inhabitant occupier of such dwelling-house as a tenant.
Page 107 - I am fully convinced that the country possesses at the present moment a legislature which answers all the good purposes of legislation, and this to a greater degree than any legislature ever has answered in any country whatever.
Page 219 - I take my stand on the broad principle that the enfranchisement of capable citizens, be they few or be they many — and if they be many so much the better — gives an addition of strength to the State.