Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... vast armaments of the war - is not , of itself , any sure criterion of general prosperity ; but , coupled with a corresponding or greater increase of national wealth and general prosperity , it is a most decisive proof . Whatever may be ...
... vast armaments of the war - is not , of itself , any sure criterion of general prosperity ; but , coupled with a corresponding or greater increase of national wealth and general prosperity , it is a most decisive proof . Whatever may be ...
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... vast improvement of the cultivation during the last fifteen years : an improvement which is most remarkable - even greater than took place during the high prices of the war . recollection were purple with 10 THE REFORM BILL .
... vast improvement of the cultivation during the last fifteen years : an improvement which is most remarkable - even greater than took place during the high prices of the war . recollection were purple with 10 THE REFORM BILL .
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... vast empire over all the world , by means of the gateway which is now to be closed for ever . America was lost by refusing it a direct voice in the legis- lature the other colonies have only been preserved by the unobtrusive but ...
... vast empire over all the world , by means of the gateway which is now to be closed for ever . America was lost by refusing it a direct voice in the legis- lature the other colonies have only been preserved by the unobtrusive but ...
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... of reformation should induce the change , not the desire of change induce the reformation . " - BACON , x . 66 , De Innovationibus . from the vast increase of our manufacturing population . Crowded 40 THE REFORM BILL .
... of reformation should induce the change , not the desire of change induce the reformation . " - BACON , x . 66 , De Innovationibus . from the vast increase of our manufacturing population . Crowded 40 THE REFORM BILL .
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... vast numbers , any journals which they support must necessarily have ten times the circulation which those enjoy who support the aristo- cratic side of the question . Hence the prodigious increase of the revolutionary journals of the ...
... vast numbers , any journals which they support must necessarily have ten times the circulation which those enjoy who support the aristo- cratic side of the question . Hence the prodigious increase of the revolutionary journals of the ...
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a-year agricultural ambition amidst amount aristocracy Bank Bank of England become BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE boroughs Britain British British empire brought capital cause Charles X civilisation classes colonies commercial consequence Conservative party constitution convicts Corn Laws crime criminals currency democratic despotism destroyed destruction distress duty effect electors emancipation empire England English established Europe evil existence exports fatal favour force foreign France free trade free-trade freedom French French Revolution grain House of Commons House of Peers human immense importation increase industry influence interests Ireland Irish islands labour land legislature Liberal liberty Lord Louis Philippe manufacturing measures ment millions multitude National Guard never opinion Paris Parliament party passions Peers period political popular population principles produce progress prosperity quarter Reform Bill rendered Revolution revolutionary ruin Scotland slaves society suffering tion tonnage vast wealth West India Whigs whole
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Sivu 391 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Sivu 467 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Sivu 237 - ... 2. That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his majesty's subjects.
Sivu 467 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Sivu 467 - ... loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...
Sivu 538 - Lochiel, False wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan: Their swords are a thousand; their bosoms are one. They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Sivu 94 - Divinity, now discover in that personage only a newly-created despot without any of the accessories or advantages which give, even to despotism, some hold on public opinion. A reaction has accordingly taken place: and men are in consequence prepared to listen to things against which, previously, they, adderwise, closed their ears, and remained deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Sivu 338 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Sivu 143 - Asia, by the desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit of liberty and the notions of private right.
Sivu 95 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.