Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 59-60William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1826 |
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... effect of an apparition upon bles , who were now restored to the multitude . They dispersed in authority , went into the crowd consternation ; some threw down and apprehended , without resist- their bludgeons - others ran to se - ance ...
... effect of an apparition upon bles , who were now restored to the multitude . They dispersed in authority , went into the crowd consternation ; some threw down and apprehended , without resist- their bludgeons - others ran to se - ance ...
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... effect , and I defy Another circumstance I regret ex- any man to say that I have fa- ceedingly - the unsatisfactory con- voured any measure , or any at- clusion of the poll ; for there re - tempt that could interrupt the main doubts on ...
... effect , and I defy Another circumstance I regret ex- any man to say that I have fa- ceedingly - the unsatisfactory con- voured any measure , or any at- clusion of the poll ; for there re - tempt that could interrupt the main doubts on ...
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... effect : -Gentlemen , you all know that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong . What you have this day witness- ed proves the truth of the saying . The cup , however , is not won , and depend upon it we shall have ...
... effect : -Gentlemen , you all know that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong . What you have this day witness- ed proves the truth of the saying . The cup , however , is not won , and depend upon it we shall have ...
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... effect which should be observed that early last they anticipated , Captain Barrie's week the friends of Mr. Wood got friends waited for the first oppor- an intimation that every opportunity to make a hostile overture . tunity would be ...
... effect which should be observed that early last they anticipated , Captain Barrie's week the friends of Mr. Wood got friends waited for the first oppor- an intimation that every opportunity to make a hostile overture . tunity would be ...
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... effect had been made use of by Mr. Wood immediately left his Mr. Wood , wrote to him on Sa- box , and went out to the Hall , at turday , requesting an explana- the back of the hustings , accom- tion ; and at the same time inti - panied ...
... effect had been made use of by Mr. Wood immediately left his Mr. Wood , wrote to him on Sa- box , and went out to the Hall , at turday , requesting an explana- the back of the hustings , accom- tion ; and at the same time inti - panied ...
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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...