The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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... Representation of Oxford 29 The Gentleman's Magazine on the House of Commons The General Election of 1768 29 31 CHAPTER II THE FIRST GREAT PLATFORM CAMPAIGN John Wilkes The Middlesex Elections of 1768-69 The Appeal to the Platform ...
... Representation of Oxford 29 The Gentleman's Magazine on the House of Commons The General Election of 1768 29 31 CHAPTER II THE FIRST GREAT PLATFORM CAMPAIGN John Wilkes The Middlesex Elections of 1768-69 The Appeal to the Platform ...
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... Representation Meeting at Smithfield ( London ) 362 362 365 366 368 Use of the word " Platform " in modern sense 370 Proclamation against Meetings 371 The Manchester Meeting of 16th August 1819 and Massacre of Peterloo . 372 The ...
... Representation Meeting at Smithfield ( London ) 362 362 365 366 368 Use of the word " Platform " in modern sense 370 Proclamation against Meetings 371 The Manchester Meeting of 16th August 1819 and Massacre of Peterloo . 372 The ...
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... representation then existing . To complete our examination of the position and prospects of the Platform at this period , the reverse of this picture must be given . It can be portrayed in bolder and more decided colours , for arrayed ...
... representation then existing . To complete our examination of the position and prospects of the Platform at this period , the reverse of this picture must be given . It can be portrayed in bolder and more decided colours , for arrayed ...
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... representation existing at the time . At last the final blow of the change of policy was struck , and in October Pitt , the great Minister , was forced to resign - Pitt , who " was called to 20 THE PLATFORM : ITS RISE AND PROGRESS PART I ...
... representation existing at the time . At last the final blow of the change of policy was struck , and in October Pitt , the great Minister , was forced to resign - Pitt , who " was called to 20 THE PLATFORM : ITS RISE AND PROGRESS PART I ...
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... representation , and these contests brought home at least to some sections of the people the import of some of the political questions of the time , awakened their interest , and incited them to take a more active part in political ...
... representation , and these contests brought home at least to some sections of the people the import of some of the political questions of the time , awakened their interest , and incited them to take a more active part in political ...
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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...