History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815, Volumen4

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Walker, Wise,, 1866
 

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Página 524 - labor, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter, because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice." It was quite true that there was a popular disposition
Página 512 - proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people." This invitation was valuable as a preparation for the deed to be done by other hands.
Página 507 - sends down his valet, who says in the genteelest manner, « We can have no whining here,' " Mr. Disraeli proceeded : " Protection appears to be in about the same condition that Protestantism was in 1828. 3 The country will draw its moral. For my part, if we are to have free-trade, I, who honor
Página 562 - of October, the Bank received, from the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a letter of warrant to enlarge the amount of their discounts and advances upon approved security, — the condition being, that a rate of interest should be charged sufficiently high to restrain the issues within the narrowest limits consistent with the public
Página 344 - in this adventure of his, to steal from him his small winnings, for a space of sixty years at the shortest. After sixty years, unless your honorable House provide otherwise, they may begin to steal. " And your petitioner will ever pray. ""THOMAS CARLYLE.
Página 344 - that all honest labor is worthy of the chance of recompense ; that the giving and assuring to each man what recompense his labor has actually merited may be said to be the business of all legislation, polity, government, and social arrangement whatever among men, — a business indispensable to attempt, impossible to accomplish accurately,
Página 344 - to accomplish without inaccuracies, that become enormous, unsupportable, and the parent of social confusions which never altogether end. That your petitioner does not undertake to say what recompense in money this labor of his may deserve; whether it deserve any recompense in money, or whether money in any quantity could hire him to do the like.
Página 508 - manœuvres, has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and of a great party. For myself, I care not what may be the result. Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the people, who, I believe, mistrust you. For me there remains this, at
Página 343 - time, some of these evils were becoming evident to the most careless and uninterested. The family of Sir Walter Scott, stripped by his great losses, might be supposed to have an honorable provision in his splendid array of works, which the world was still buying as eagerly as ever; but the term of
Página 403 - I begin now to think that things must be worse before they are better, and that nothing but some great pressure from without will make Christians cast away their idols of sectarianism, — the worst and most mischievous by which Christ's Church has ever been plagued ; " while such were the lamentations of Churchmen of every order, we find

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