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... wish to see them , if employment were always plenti- ful , wages always high , food always cheap , if a large family were considered not as an encumbrance but as a blessing , the principal objections to Universal Suffrage would , I ...
... wish to see them , if employment were always plenti- ful , wages always high , food always cheap , if a large family were considered not as an encumbrance but as a blessing , the principal objections to Universal Suffrage would , I ...
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... wishes of Manchester , he asks , as much consulted as those of any town which sends Members to Parliament ? Now , Sir , I do not understand how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly ...
... wishes of Manchester , he asks , as much consulted as those of any town which sends Members to Parliament ? Now , Sir , I do not understand how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly ...
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... wishes to dethrone the King ? Who wishes to turn the Lords out of their House ? Here and there a crazy radical , whom the boys in the street point at as he walks along . Who wishes to alter the consti- tution of this House ? The whole ...
... wishes to dethrone the King ? Who wishes to turn the Lords out of their House ? Here and there a crazy radical , whom the boys in the street point at as he walks along . Who wishes to alter the consti- tution of this House ? The whole ...
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... wish it to be ; but it is founded on a great and a sound prin- ciple . It takes away a vast power from a few . It distributes that power through the great mass of the middle order . Every man , therefore , who thinks as I think is bound ...
... wish it to be ; but it is founded on a great and a sound prin- ciple . It takes away a vast power from a few . It distributes that power through the great mass of the middle order . Every man , therefore , who thinks as I think is bound ...
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... wish to uphold the Royal prerogatives and the constitutional rights of the Peers . What facts does my honorable friend produce in support of his opinion ? One fact only ; and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the ...
... wish to uphold the Royal prerogatives and the constitutional rights of the Peers . What facts does my honorable friend produce in support of his opinion ? One fact only ; and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the ...
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Página 477 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Página 469 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Página 544 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Página 469 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 545 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ! Ho ! matrons of Lucerne ! Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls...
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Página 463 - Tall are the oaks whose acorns Drop in dark Auser's rill ; Fat are the stags that champ the boughs Of the Ciminian hill ; Beyond all streams Clitumnus Is to the herdsman dear ; Best of all pools the fowler loves The great Volsinian mere.