Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 59-60William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1826 |
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... is pro- posed to meet in Fox - Street , at three ' o'clock ; and those who intend to . join the procession are requested to appear with crimson or scarlet ri hands . B Signed by about thirty - eight of the the melted 3 34 .. JULY 1 , 1826 .
... is pro- posed to meet in Fox - Street , at three ' o'clock ; and those who intend to . join the procession are requested to appear with crimson or scarlet ri hands . B Signed by about thirty - eight of the the melted 3 34 .. JULY 1 , 1826 .
Page 69
... appears to have thought land to those countries where the it wise and prudent to set up a mines of gold and silver ... appear now to be the Colombian agent got for the hastening to that state when the bonds ; so that the goods were ...
... appears to have thought land to those countries where the it wise and prudent to set up a mines of gold and silver ... appear now to be the Colombian agent got for the hastening to that state when the bonds ; so that the goods were ...
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... appear that the at Preston , he spoke truly enough ; King of Spain did pay attention but you will believe , and the to what I said ; for the King of country will believe , that the man Spain has treated the flippant who could , in ...
... appear that the at Preston , he spoke truly enough ; King of Spain did pay attention but you will believe , and the to what I said ; for the King of country will believe , that the man Spain has treated the flippant who could , in ...
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... appears to be energy with gayest and most enchanting sight them ; and judge of my happi- that eyes ever beheld . As we ap - ness to receive smiles from so proached Preston , the shelving many thousands of beautiful faces , grounds ...
... appears to be energy with gayest and most enchanting sight them ; and judge of my happi- that eyes ever beheld . As we ap - ness to receive smiles from so proached Preston , the shelving many thousands of beautiful faces , grounds ...
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... appear some of those dissemblings of love which I afterwards mentioned at the hustings . In short , groups of boys , who were soon afterwards joined by bodies of men , began to salute the ears of the cavalcade with cries of " Cobbett ...
... appear some of those dissemblings of love which I afterwards mentioned at the hustings . In short , groups of boys , who were soon afterwards joined by bodies of men , began to salute the ears of the cavalcade with cries of " Cobbett ...
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Page 377 - 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 377 - 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 137 - Cheltenham, which is what they call a " watering place " ; that is to say, a place to which East India plunderers, West India floggers, English taxgorgers, together with gluttons, drunkards, and debauchees of all descriptions, female as well as male, resort, at the suggestion of silently laughing quacks, in the hope of getting rid of the bodily consequences of their manifold sins and iniquities.
Page 211 - ... franchises were granted as much with a view to preserve the breed of animals, as to indulge the subject. From a similar principle to which, though the forest laws are now mitigated, and by degrees grown entirely obsolete...
Page 699 - His majesty acquaints the house of commons, that his majesty has received an earnest application from the princess regent of Portugal, claiming, in virtue of the ancient obligations of alliance and amity subsisting between his majesty and the crown of Portugal, his majesty's aid against a hostile aggression from Spain.
Page 725 - I then said that I feared that the next war which should be kindled in Europe would be a war not so much of armies as of opinions. Not four years have elapsed, and behold my...
Page 507 - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be prepared, and they will, in due time, be laid before you. I...
Page 719 - ... able working men, and. as many boys, sometimes assisted by the women and stout girls. What a handful of people to raise such a quantity of food ! What injustice, what a hellish system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped on the fund-holders, pensioners, soldiers, dead-weight, and other swarms of tax-eaters ! If such an operation do not need putting an end to, then the devil himself is a saint.
Page 725 - I dread war in a good cause, (and in no other may it be the lot of this country ever to engage!) from a distrust of the strength of the country to commence it, or of her resources to maintain it I dread it, indeed — but upon far other grounds: I dread it from an apprehension of the tremendous consequences which might arise from any hostilities in which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting...
Page 761 - 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...