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Page 149
I think the appointment of the Duke of Wellington is bad , in a constitutional point
of view ; but as to violence being , in consequence , directed against the liberties
of the country , the fear of such an event I look upon as futile and groundless .
I think the appointment of the Duke of Wellington is bad , in a constitutional point
of view ; but as to violence being , in consequence , directed against the liberties
of the country , the fear of such an event I look upon as futile and groundless .
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To him who can look beyond the abstract numbers , whose eye is not confined to
the mere tables and returns of population , but ranges over the miseries of which
such a diminution is the infallible symptom ; it offers a view of all the forms of ...
To him who can look beyond the abstract numbers , whose eye is not confined to
the mere tables and returns of population , but ranges over the miseries of which
such a diminution is the infallible symptom ; it offers a view of all the forms of ...
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Let but the country have a full and free representation , and to that will men look
for the expression of public opinion , and the press will no more be able to dictate
, as now , when none else can speak the sense of the people . Will its influence ...
Let but the country have a full and free representation , and to that will men look
for the expression of public opinion , and the press will no more be able to dictate
, as now , when none else can speak the sense of the people . Will its influence ...
Page 244
... I do not disguise the intense solicitude which I feel for the event of this Debate ,
because I know full well that the peace of the country is involved in the issue . I
cannot look without dismay at the rejection of the measure . But grievous as may
...
... I do not disguise the intense solicitude which I feel for the event of this Debate ,
because I know full well that the peace of the country is involved in the issue . I
cannot look without dismay at the rejection of the measure . But grievous as may
...
Page 255
... to be an overwhelming majority of all ranks and classes of his Majesty's
subjects , extending even to the very humblest . a When education has made
such progress as it has done , and when I look to the further progress it may
reasonably be ...
... to be an overwhelming majority of all ranks and classes of his Majesty's
subjects , extending even to the very humblest . a When education has made
such progress as it has done , and when I look to the further progress it may
reasonably be ...
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| Title | Selections from the Speeches and Writings of the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: With a Brief Memoir of His Lordship's Life |
| Author | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux |
| Publisher | J. Ridgway, 1832 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 259 pages |
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