The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Հատոր 1Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
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Henry Lorenzo Jephson. liberties of this country . You see , gentlemen , I speak my mind freely ; a decent freedom is the first privilege of a mem- ber of Parliament , and , therefore , I hope I may give no offence whatsoever . I am sure ...
Henry Lorenzo Jephson. liberties of this country . You see , gentlemen , I speak my mind freely ; a decent freedom is the first privilege of a mem- ber of Parliament , and , therefore , I hope I may give no offence whatsoever . I am sure ...
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... speaking began , and the rise of the Platform became inevitable . It might be contended that the system of representative government which was originally devised and adopted by the English people as that which would best secure them the ...
... speaking began , and the rise of the Platform became inevitable . It might be contended that the system of representative government which was originally devised and adopted by the English people as that which would best secure them the ...
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... speak . Bad as it was , it was forgotten under or condoned by the per- secution he endured . It is strange how often in history a person of indifferent or even bad character is the champion or figurehead of a great principle . From 1769 ...
... speak . Bad as it was , it was forgotten under or condoned by the per- secution he endured . It is strange how often in history a person of indifferent or even bad character is the champion or figurehead of a great principle . From 1769 ...
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... speak it boldly - it were better for them to perish in a glorious contention for their rights than to purchase a slavish tranquillity at the expense of a single iota of the Constitution . . . . Great pains have been taken to alarm us ...
... speak it boldly - it were better for them to perish in a glorious contention for their rights than to purchase a slavish tranquillity at the expense of a single iota of the Constitution . . . . Great pains have been taken to alarm us ...
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... speaking was not to be all on one side , and , for- tunately for the liberties of Englishmen , free speech , though much hampered out of doors , was still permitted in the House of Commons . Sir G. Savile , one of the popular members ...
... speaking was not to be all on one side , and , for- tunately for the liberties of Englishmen , free speech , though much hampered out of doors , was still permitted in the House of Commons . Sir G. Savile , one of the popular members ...
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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...