The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Band 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... reported at any length in the newspapers . One speech appears to have escaped the general neglect of such Platform oratory as there was at the general election of 1761 , and one or two extracts from it are worth quoting , as it is one ...
... reported at any length in the newspapers . One speech appears to have escaped the general neglect of such Platform oratory as there was at the general election of 1761 , and one or two extracts from it are worth quoting , as it is one ...
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... reported ( about twenty lines ) , the most noticeable sentences in it being , " He heartily wished every man present would stand forth and disclose his opinion without diffidence or reserve . . . that this country was not to be saved by ...
... reported ( about twenty lines ) , the most noticeable sentences in it being , " He heartily wished every man present would stand forth and disclose his opinion without diffidence or reserve . . . that this country was not to be saved by ...
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... reported as attending the meetings as well as of the speakers show this conclusively , and this circumstance is one of those which distinguishes this agitation from that in connection with the Middlesex election . It also marks strongly ...
... reported as attending the meetings as well as of the speakers show this conclusively , and this circumstance is one of those which distinguishes this agitation from that in connection with the Middlesex election . It also marks strongly ...
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... reported in the newspapers , spread far and wide throughout the country a fuller knowledge of political principles . They established on a far stronger and broader basis than ever before the right of publicly dis- cussing and ...
... reported in the newspapers , spread far and wide throughout the country a fuller knowledge of political principles . They established on a far stronger and broader basis than ever before the right of publicly dis- cussing and ...
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... reported at this election than at previous ones , and more elec- tions are referred to at which peeches were stated to have been made . The speeches at the elections for London city , Westminster , Surrey , and Middlesex , are reported ...
... reported at this election than at previous ones , and more elec- tions are referred to at which peeches were stated to have been made . The speeches at the elections for London city , Westminster , Surrey , and Middlesex , are reported ...
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Seite 71 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 70 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 20 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Seite 70 - ... live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention.
Seite 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 71 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect.
Seite 56 - The power of the Crown, almost dead and rotten as prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength and far less odium, under the name of influence.
Seite 102 - I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have in a single instance sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party...
Seite 436 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Seite 133 - II. st. 1, c. 5, that no petition to the king, or either house of parliament, for alteration of matters established by law in church or state...