Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 1W. Blackwood, 1850 - 2060 sivua |
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... quarter , and that it can be laid down on the quay of any harbour in Britain at from 33s . to 40s . , it may easily be anticipated what a revolution in prices will , in the first instance , be effected by this measure . We say in the ...
... quarter , and that it can be laid down on the quay of any harbour in Britain at from 33s . to 40s . , it may easily be anticipated what a revolution in prices will , in the first instance , be effected by this measure . We say in the ...
Sivu 54
... quarter . The repeal of the Corn Laws , therefore , is calculated to inflict a permanent wound on the agricultural resources of the empire , and permanently injure all the numerous classes who depend on that branch of industry , and con ...
... quarter . The repeal of the Corn Laws , therefore , is calculated to inflict a permanent wound on the agricultural resources of the empire , and permanently injure all the numerous classes who depend on that branch of industry , and con ...
Sivu 55
... quarter , or about half its present standard . Let it be supposed that the stagnation , want of employment , and misery , consequent upon a large portion of our agricultural labourers being thrown out of employment , is got over ; that ...
... quarter , or about half its present standard . Let it be supposed that the stagnation , want of employment , and misery , consequent upon a large portion of our agricultural labourers being thrown out of employment , is got over ; that ...
Sivu 56
Archibald Alison. If wheat be permanently lowered from 60s . to 30s . a quarter , or in any considerable though lesser degree , the first consequence must be , that the money price of every article must fall . As the price of grain ...
Archibald Alison. If wheat be permanently lowered from 60s . to 30s . a quarter , or in any considerable though lesser degree , the first consequence must be , that the money price of every article must fall . As the price of grain ...
Sivu 59
... quarter , they can only get 30s . But the evil is too serious and widespread to admit of any such feeling ; and there is no class whose future state , under the conse- If wheat be permanently lowered from 60s . to 30s THE REFORM BILL . 59.
... quarter , they can only get 30s . But the evil is too serious and widespread to admit of any such feeling ; and there is no class whose future state , under the conse- If wheat be permanently lowered from 60s . to 30s THE REFORM BILL . 59.
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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.