Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 751
... bill ; and I cannot , I think , better explain those reasons than by passing in review , as rapidly as I can , the chief objections which have been made to the bill here and elsewhere . The objectors , Sir , may be divided into three ...
... bill ; and I cannot , I think , better explain those reasons than by passing in review , as rapidly as I can , the chief objections which have been made to the bill here and elsewhere . The objectors , Sir , may be divided into three ...
Page 760
... Bill which he and his colleagues had pretended that they thought indispensable to the welfare of the State . And where is that bill now ? Flung away ; condemned by its own authors ; pronounced by them to be so oppressive , so ...
... Bill which he and his colleagues had pretended that they thought indispensable to the welfare of the State . And where is that bill now ? Flung away ; condemned by its own authors ; pronounced by them to be so oppressive , so ...
Page 763
... bill , nor any other bill regulating the hours of labour , can be defended . This , they say , is one of those matters about which we ought not to legislate at all ; one of those matters which settle themselves far better than any ...
... bill , nor any other bill regulating the hours of labour , can be defended . This , they say , is one of those matters about which we ought not to legislate at all ; one of those matters which settle themselves far better than any ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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