The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... considerable portion of the people were already familiarised with the Platform by their religious experiences and training , and were ready to adopt as the organ and instrument of their political aspirations and desires the agent which ...
... considerable portion of the people were already familiarised with the Platform by their religious experiences and training , and were ready to adopt as the organ and instrument of their political aspirations and desires the agent which ...
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... considerable number of persons , and when this was the case , it necessitated the people coming together in a meeting , where some order had to 1 A copy is in the British Museum , and of the King's reply . be maintained , some regular ...
... considerable number of persons , and when this was the case , it necessitated the people coming together in a meeting , where some order had to 1 A copy is in the British Museum , and of the King's reply . be maintained , some regular ...
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... considerable period , though not giving evidence of its future development , nor awakening even a suspicion of the part it was to take in the political life of the kingdom . " It was known here under the name of " Hustings . " By the 1 ...
... considerable period , though not giving evidence of its future development , nor awakening even a suspicion of the part it was to take in the political life of the kingdom . " It was known here under the name of " Hustings . " By the 1 ...
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... considerable Liberal element ; for many of the great noblemen of the country were constantly contend- ing for their own power and authority , and were by no means disposed to submit to any encroachments of the authority of the Crown ...
... considerable Liberal element ; for many of the great noblemen of the country were constantly contend- ing for their own power and authority , and were by no means disposed to submit to any encroachments of the authority of the Crown ...
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... was sacred , and no character was spared . " 1 See The Public Advertiser , 14th April 1763. 2 Ibid . 24th April 1763 . That the agitation must have reached a considerable height is 26 THE PLATFORM : ITS RISE AND PROGRESS PART I.
... was sacred , and no character was spared . " 1 See The Public Advertiser , 14th April 1763. 2 Ibid . 24th April 1763 . That the agitation must have reached a considerable height is 26 THE PLATFORM : ITS RISE AND PROGRESS PART I.
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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...