The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... adopted , and are attempting to work out , must , whether it fails or whether it succeeds , attract the closest and most searching attention of rulers and peoples in other countries , and at later times than ours . It is , therefore , I ...
... adopted , and are attempting to work out , must , whether it fails or whether it succeeds , attract the closest and most searching attention of rulers and peoples in other countries , and at later times than ours . It is , therefore , I ...
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... adopt as the organ and instrument of their political aspirations and desires the agent which they had found so well adapted to the needs and circumstances of their religious life . Some little time , however , was still to elapse before ...
... adopt as the organ and instrument of their political aspirations and desires the agent which they had found so well adapted to the needs and circumstances of their religious life . Some little time , however , was still to elapse before ...
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... adopted by Parliament . His tone , however , soon changed , and his true disposition quickly began to make itself apparent . Saturated with the ideas of an autocrat , he determined to be King in fact , and not merely in name ...
... adopted by Parliament . His tone , however , soon changed , and his true disposition quickly began to make itself apparent . Saturated with the ideas of an autocrat , he determined to be King in fact , and not merely in name ...
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... adopted by the English people as that which would best secure them the self- government they so dearly prized , should have sufficed for CHAP . I 23 THE NEED FOR THE PLATFORM The need for the Platform The First Platform Agitation—the Cider.
... adopted by the English people as that which would best secure them the self- government they so dearly prized , should have sufficed for CHAP . I 23 THE NEED FOR THE PLATFORM The need for the Platform The First Platform Agitation—the Cider.
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... adopted by the popular party as a weapon both of defence and offence , and was employed as a political engine , with the deliberate and avowed object of directly contesting and influencing the action of Parliament . Many people who up ...
... adopted by the popular party as a weapon both of defence and offence , and was employed as a political engine , with the deliberate and avowed object of directly contesting and influencing the action of Parliament . Many people who up ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 88 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...