Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for Each Article: With an Introduction, Shewing the Necessity of Radical, and the Inadequacy of Moderate, ReformT.J. Wooler, 1817 - 156 pages |
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active talent anno annuality Answer applied appropriate intellectual aptitude appropriate probity argument attendance behold Borough seats boroughs bribery brought to view Candidate cause character Charles Fox constitution County County Seats cracy defalcation degree dependance Earl Grey effect Election Electoral Districts employed exclusion existence expense extent eyes favour given giving Grey hands Honourable House House of Commons House of Lords individual influence instance instrument less look Lord matter of corruption means Members ment mischief mode moderate reform Monarch nature object occasion operation Parl Parliament Parliamentary Reform particular persons possession present principle produced proposed purpose quantity question radical reform regard remedy representation respect seats secrecy seen shape sinister interest Sir Francis Burdett Sir William Jones situation sort speeches sufficient supposed swinish taken terest terrorism thence thing tion universal interest universal suffrage virtually universal vote voter whatsoever Whigs whole word
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Page xl - Treasury, and that, under any probable diminution of its future annual products, which the vicissitudes of commerce may occasion, it will afford an ample fund for the effectual and early extinguishment of the public debt. It has been estimated, that during the year 1816, the actual receipts of revenue at the Treasury, including the balance at the commencement of the year, and excluding...
Page xlvi - Balance — balance — politicians upon roses — to whom, to save the toil of thinking on questions most wide in extent, and most high in importance — an allusion — an emblem — an any thing — so as it has been accepted by others, is accepted as conclusive evidence : what mean ye by this your balance ? Know ye not, that in a machine of any kind, when forces balance each other, the machine is at a stand? Well, and in the machine of government, immobility — the perpetual absence of all motion...
Page xl - It has been estimated, that during the year 1816, the actual receipts of revenue at the Treasury, including the balance at the commencement of the year, and excluding the proceeds of loans and Treasury notes, will amount to about...
Page lxxix - England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires...
Page lxxxix - ... the genuine feeling of every gentleman who hears me, that all the superior classes of the female sex of England must be more capable of exercising the elective suffrage with deliberation and propriety, than the uninformed individuals of the lowest class of men to whom the advocates of universal suffrage would extend it.
Page cxxxiii - I am summoned to meetings, where I sometimes think it my duty to declare them openly before twenty or thirty persons; and the next day I am forced either to vote contrary to them, or to vote with an opposition which I abhor.
Page ccxlvi - As to what is called a revolution-principle, my opinion was this: that whenever those evils which usually attend and follow a violent change of government were not in probability so pernicious as the grievances we suffer under a present power, then the public good will justify such a revolution.
Page ccxlvi - As to parliaments, I adored the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made them annual : and I was confident our liberty could never be placed upon a firm foundation until that ancient law were...