Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Speeches. IndexHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the laboring classes can possibly ... effects - those effects which it would produce on the Ameri- cans , or on any other people - that it blinds their ...
... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the laboring classes can possibly ... effects - those effects which it would produce on the Ameri- cans , or on any other people - that it blinds their ...
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... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , I have read history to little purpose . Sir , this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year . If there be any ...
... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , I have read history to little purpose . Sir , this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year . If there be any ...
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... fact only , and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the question . The effect of this Reform , he tells us , would be to make the House of Com- mons all - powerful . It was all - powerful PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . 27.
... fact only , and that a fact which has ab- solutely nothing to do with the question . The effect of this Reform , he tells us , would be to make the House of Com- mons all - powerful . It was all - powerful PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . 27.
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... effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which was with difficulty kept in a state of sullen tranquillity by military force , it has fallen to our lot to accomplish PARLIAMENTARY ...
... effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which was with difficulty kept in a state of sullen tranquillity by military force , it has fallen to our lot to accomplish PARLIAMENTARY ...
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... effect . Recol- lect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Rec- ollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day ...
... effect . Recol- lect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Rec- ollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day ...
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Página 285 - Lord John Russell moved for a Committee of the whole House to take into consideration the state of Ireland.
Página 434 - Not the exuberance of soil; not the mildness of climate ; not mines, nor havens, nor rivers. These things are indeed valuable when put to their proper use by human intelligence: but human intelligence can do much without them ; and they without human intelligence can do nothing. They exist in the highest degree in regions of which the inhabitants are few, and squalid, and barbarous, and naked, and starving; while on sterile rocks, amidst unwholesome marshes, and under inclement skies, may be found...
Página 95 - September, 1831, the Bill to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales was read a third time, at an early hour and in a thin house, without any debate.
Página 131 - An act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government of his Majesty's Indian territories, till the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Página 333 - I am confident that the three right honourable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer
Página 91 - In peace or in convulsion, by the law, or in spite of the law, through the Parliament, or over the Parliament, Reform must be carried. Therefore be content to guide that movement which you cannot stop.
Página 121 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us, if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?