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... living solely on snipes . ' Determined to be distinguished , he even made a show , and not a bad one , in the hunting field . Writing from Southend in 1834 , he says , ' Hunted the other day with Sir H. Smythe's hounds , and though not ...
... living solely on snipes . ' Determined to be distinguished , he even made a show , and not a bad one , in the hunting field . Writing from Southend in 1834 , he says , ' Hunted the other day with Sir H. Smythe's hounds , and though not ...
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... living lie . He is the most degraded of his species and kind , and England is degraded in tolerating and having on the face of her society a miscreant of his abominable , foul , and atrocious nature . His name shows that he is by ...
... living lie . He is the most degraded of his species and kind , and England is degraded in tolerating and having on the face of her society a miscreant of his abominable , foul , and atrocious nature . His name shows that he is by ...
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... living rose along with them . The compulsory apprentice system was dropped , and the children were dragged up in squalor upon the streets . Discontent broke out in ugly forms : ricks were burnt in the country , and in the northern ...
... living rose along with them . The compulsory apprentice system was dropped , and the children were dragged up in squalor upon the streets . Discontent broke out in ugly forms : ricks were burnt in the country , and in the northern ...
Page 79
... living unheard of since the Roman Empire , and extort the means of this extravagance by an arbitrary law . You say you must have a revenue to maintain your fleets and armies , and that it cannot be raised except by customs duties . Your ...
... living unheard of since the Roman Empire , and extort the means of this extravagance by an arbitrary law . You say you must have a revenue to maintain your fleets and armies , and that it cannot be raised except by customs duties . Your ...
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... living at the mercy of its rivals . Christianity had failed to extinguish war . It was not likely that commerce would succeed better , and the accidents of a single campaign , the successful blockade of our ports even for a month or a ...
... living at the mercy of its rivals . Christianity had failed to extinguish war . It was not likely that commerce would succeed better , and the accidents of a single campaign , the successful blockade of our ports even for a month or a ...
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Page 106 - ... to me of conservative principles; but he does not inform me what they are. I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are concessionary, not conservative principles. This party treats institutions as we do our pheasants, they preserve only to destroy them.
Page 107 - We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the Church; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts; and the borough-mongering of our own times.