Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 59William Cobbett J.M. Cobbett, 1826 |
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... lands and tenements . - " Catholic emancipa- tion " !!! - Distress . Good God ! Surely my eyes deceive me ! -Na- tional ... land's Glory . " - The Poor Man's Friend . - 8. To the Working People of Black- burn , on the capacity of the Go ...
... lands and tenements . - " Catholic emancipa- tion " !!! - Distress . Good God ! Surely my eyes deceive me ! -Na- tional ... land's Glory . " - The Poor Man's Friend . - 8. To the Working People of Black- burn , on the capacity of the Go ...
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... land . I pray for your happiness neither he nor the sprig of Derby . and prosperity , whether I am pre- I said I could do something . But sent or absent . I pray for the poor Wood , what will he do ? The happiness of your wives and chil ...
... land . I pray for your happiness neither he nor the sprig of Derby . and prosperity , whether I am pre- I said I could do something . But sent or absent . I pray for the poor Wood , what will he do ? The happiness of your wives and chil ...
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... land . don seven per cent . for the use of Events have proved that this money , and were to become the has actually been the case . Not slaves of fundholders to all eter - money - has come from Colombia . nity . Thank God , my friends ...
... land . don seven per cent . for the use of Events have proved that this money , and were to become the has actually been the case . Not slaves of fundholders to all eter - money - has come from Colombia . nity . Thank God , my friends ...
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... a stranger in the these immense multitudes of peo- land . Let us see what sort of an ple ; behold their eager looks , their entrance the rival candidates had . 2 " " To begin with Mr. Stanley : he 89 90 JULY 8 , 1826 .
... a stranger in the these immense multitudes of peo- land . Let us see what sort of an ple ; behold their eager looks , their entrance the rival candidates had . 2 " " To begin with Mr. Stanley : he 89 90 JULY 8 , 1826 .
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... land , if they both men and women was to shake could not gain a livelihood by hands with me . I put my arm their labour . I had been told over the side of the carriage , and that the overseers and magistrates sometimes both arms ...
... land , if they both men and women was to shake could not gain a livelihood by hands with me . I put my arm their labour . I had been told over the side of the carriage , and that the overseers and magistrates sometimes both arms ...
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Page 389 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 773 - Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes ; Yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Page 389 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 609 - Chute." That is to say, the utmost extent of her voyages had been about two and a half miles! Let no one laugh at her, and, above all others, let not me, who am convinced, that the facilities, which now exist of moving human bodies from place to place, are amongst the curses of the country, the destroyers of industry, of morals, and, of course, of happiness.
Page 773 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit...
Page 793 - liberty" indeed; "civil and religious liberty": the Inquisition, with a belly full, is far preferable to a state of things like this. For my own part, I really am ashamed to ride a fat horse, to have a full belly, and to have a clean shirt upon my back, while I look at these wretched countrymen of mine; while I actually see them reeling with weakness; when I see their poor faces present me nothing but skin and bone, while they are toiling to get the wheat and the meat ready to be carried away to...
Page 695 - ... on the latter, by a forfeiture of all his goods and chattels to the king: hoping that his care for either his own reputation, or the welfare of his family, would be some motive to restrain him from so desperate and wicked an act.
Page 711 - The shepherd showed me the way towards Milton; and at the end of about a mile, from the top of a very high part of the down, with a steep slope towards the valley, I first saw this Valley of Avon ; and a most beautiful sight it was ! Villages, hamlets, large farms, towers, steeples, fields, meadows, orchards, and very fine timber trees, scattered all over the valley. The shape of the thing is this: on each side downs, very lofty and steep in some places, and sloping miles back in other places; but...
Page 675 - ... be made up, according to the provisions of the said acts : His majesty, with the advice of his privy council, doth order, and it is hereby accordingly ordered, that foreign oats and oatmeal, rye, pease, and beans, whether warehoused or otherwise, shall, and may, from the date hereof...
Page 713 - ... the folly, the stupidity, the inanity, the presumption, the insufferable emptiness and insolence and barbarity, of those numerous wretches, who have now the audacity, to propose to transport the people of England, upon the principle of the monster Malthus, who has furnished the unfeeling oligarchs, and their toad-eaters, with the pretence, that man has a natural propensity to breed faster, than food can be raised for the increase...