A Letter to the Electors of Westminster, Tema 1J. Hearne, 1850 - 100 páginas |
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... at com- mand , sets to work to traduce the labouring classes , and plumes himself on every penny he can pilfer from the poor . ARISTOCRAT . There is , Madam , but too much 11 even to understand. How interesting is that anec- ...
... at com- mand , sets to work to traduce the labouring classes , and plumes himself on every penny he can pilfer from the poor . ARISTOCRAT . There is , Madam , but too much 11 even to understand. How interesting is that anec- ...
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... poor by the rich ; this rendering unto Cæsar the things that are not Cæsar's ; this taking ( as the Psalmist says ) " the labours of the people in possession " ; this is the system which our pharasaical charlatans call " universal ...
... poor by the rich ; this rendering unto Cæsar the things that are not Cæsar's ; this taking ( as the Psalmist says ) " the labours of the people in possession " ; this is the system which our pharasaical charlatans call " universal ...
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... poor Albion , with not a friend , was glad to slink away unperceived ; leaving no trace of her former influence , but the name 66 66 at which the world grew pale , To point a moral , or adorn - a tale ! " PROTECTION . Upon my word , Sir ...
... poor Albion , with not a friend , was glad to slink away unperceived ; leaving no trace of her former influence , but the name 66 66 at which the world grew pale , To point a moral , or adorn - a tale ! " PROTECTION . Upon my word , Sir ...
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... poor - rate , and supported in unwilling idleness , at the cost of the land , which can no longer employ them . Surely , Madam , after this , it is not difficult to understand how injurious " cheap foreign corn , " may prove to the mass ...
... poor - rate , and supported in unwilling idleness , at the cost of the land , which can no longer employ them . Surely , Madam , after this , it is not difficult to understand how injurious " cheap foreign corn , " may prove to the mass ...
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... poor more poor . PROTECTION . But did not Mr. Villiers inform us , on the first night of the session , that the people , during the last three years , had saved ninety millions sterling , in the cost of bread ? ARISTOCRAT . Is it not ...
... poor more poor . PROTECTION . But did not Mr. Villiers inform us , on the first night of the session , that the people , during the last three years , had saved ninety millions sterling , in the cost of bread ? ARISTOCRAT . Is it not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith agricultural agst Albion ARISTOCRAT assure Belle France Bill of 19 Bouncing Bess British farmer British industry capital cent cheap bread cheap foreign corn classes Cobden competition Corn Laws cracy cries dear Debt displace Don Whiskerandos Electors of Westminster employed England exchange exploded sophism Exports fair feel fellow fixed duty Foreign Bottoms foreign commodities foreign trade Frau Zollverein free importation friends give heart Jonathan Joyeuse Grisette labour land Letter look Lord John Lord John Russell low price machinery Madam male adults mean merry England Nation neutral markets never peace Peelites Petite Belge Philanthropy political poor population Porter's Progress Pray produce PROTECTION Protectionist Proudhon prove quarters of wheat reduce regard revenue ruin scarcely selfish sigh Sir James Graham Sir Robert Peel smiling Spitalfields statesmen sure surplus tail taxed tell throw Tiffin truth undersell wages Wealth Whigs whole
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Página 57 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 26 - The capital which sends Scotch manufactures to London, and brings back English corn and manufactures to Edinburgh, necessarily replaces by етегу such operation, two British capitals which had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of Great Britain. The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals; but one of them only is employed...
Página 67 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Página 75 - ... Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont> And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light : While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.
Página 26 - The capital employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, when this purchase is made with the produce of domestic industry, replaces, too, by every such operation, two distinct capitals, but one of them only is employed in supporting domestic industry. The capital which sends British goods to Portugal, and brings back Portuguese goods to Great Britain, replaces by every such operation only one British capital. The other is a Portuguese one. Though the returns, therefore, of the foreign...
Página 55 - ... renewed. But even in peace, the habitual dependence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own population, not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy.
Página 23 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 72 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 55 - I admit, that if unlimited foreign import, which the war had suspended, were now again allowed, bread might be a little, though a very little cheaper, than it now is, for a year or two. But what would follow ? The small farmer would be ruined ; improvements would...
Página 75 - And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself.