Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 59-60William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1826 |
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... interest- 79g bagangdi neofia nadal for off of even to the last day of his being ing particulars of the latter part bewaitros elgoodT 2010 at Preston ; he has had so many of the election . dood l a 15 mut all le no consleib aldanebiego ...
... interest- 79g bagangdi neofia nadal for off of even to the last day of his being ing particulars of the latter part bewaitros elgoodT 2010 at Preston ; he has had so many of the election . dood l a 15 mut all le no consleib aldanebiego ...
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... interest of each A should have access to that only , which was appropriated to the candidate of his choice . Why should that compact be violated ? But if all the other doors were not as freely opened as the Mayor now wished that Mr ...
... interest of each A should have access to that only , which was appropriated to the candidate of his choice . Why should that compact be violated ? But if all the other doors were not as freely opened as the Mayor now wished that Mr ...
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... interest on the hundred pounds until the bond should be paid off and the holder get his hundred pounds again . This was famous In the meanwhile , those amiable creatures called loan - jobbers , who had set to work the several Govern ...
... interest on the hundred pounds until the bond should be paid off and the holder get his hundred pounds again . This was famous In the meanwhile , those amiable creatures called loan - jobbers , who had set to work the several Govern ...
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... interest on the bonds ; this scheme has been blown into not a farthing has come either for air ; and , though we are compel that purpose or for that of paying led to bear the intolerable burden off the bonds ; so that , the goods of a ...
... interest on the bonds ; this scheme has been blown into not a farthing has come either for air ; and , though we are compel that purpose or for that of paying led to bear the intolerable burden off the bonds ; so that , the goods of a ...
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... interest , insert the article before I make was not worth a farthing , unless any further remarks upon the sub- " some interest were paid upon ject of it . I beg you to have the " it . I declared , when Spanish goodness to read it with ...
... interest , insert the article before I make was not worth a farthing , unless any further remarks upon the sub- " some interest were paid upon ject of it . I beg you to have the " it . I declared , when Spanish goodness to read it with ...
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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...