The public life of the ... earl of Beaconsfield, Issue 75, Volume 21879 |
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... Boroughs and Counties - The Conservative sacrifice - The House and the Speech - Opposition to the Resolutions- " Forcing the hand " of the Government - Cabinet dissensions - Resignations of Lord Car- narvon , Lord Cranborne , and ...
... Boroughs and Counties - The Conservative sacrifice - The House and the Speech - Opposition to the Resolutions- " Forcing the hand " of the Government - Cabinet dissensions - Resignations of Lord Car- narvon , Lord Cranborne , and ...
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... borough , " when they have succeeded in overcoming resistance , have excepted a few persons as still deserving of punishment , but have with a generous policy extended their clemency to the great body of the people . You have acted upon ...
... borough , " when they have succeeded in overcoming resistance , have excepted a few persons as still deserving of punishment , but have with a generous policy extended their clemency to the great body of the people . You have acted upon ...
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... boroughs returned 330 members by 400,000 electors . It would but aggravate that anomaly to carry such a measure as that proposed by Mr. Locke King . At that time every county member represented 3,300 electors , while every borough ...
... boroughs returned 330 members by 400,000 electors . It would but aggravate that anomaly to carry such a measure as that proposed by Mr. Locke King . At that time every county member represented 3,300 electors , while every borough ...
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... boroughs to sup- port a scheme which if carried out would have intensified all the anomalies and imperfections of the then existing system . Any attempt to deal with the question at all from the Tory point of view , was in the meantime ...
... boroughs to sup- port a scheme which if carried out would have intensified all the anomalies and imperfections of the then existing system . Any attempt to deal with the question at all from the Tory point of view , was in the meantime ...
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... boroughs returning 232 members . The City of London- the city proper - is richer than Manchester , Liverpool and ... borough system of representation in England was originally framed that it should represent all the classes and interests ...
... boroughs returning 232 members . The City of London- the city proper - is richer than Manchester , Liverpool and ... borough system of representation in England was originally framed that it should represent all the classes and interests ...
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Page 311 - In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines.
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Page 452 - Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country.
Page 290 - That it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to alter the law of rating ; and to provide that in every parliamentary borough the occupiers of tenements below a given ratable value be relieved from liability to personal rating...
Page 304 - I think England is safe in the race of men who inhabit her; that she is safe in something much more precious than her accumulated capital — her accumulated experience ; she is safe in her national character, in her fame, in the tradition of a thousand years, and in that glorious future which I believe awaits her.
Page 427 - Her Majesty's new Ministers proceeded in their career like a body of men under the influence of some delirious drug. Not satiated with the spoliation and anarchy of Ireland, they began to attack every institution and every interest, every class and calling in the country.
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