Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 69-70William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... seen forty extracts from letters upon this subject , starving in the midst of abundance , and that we can find room but for six . ] It is undoubt- therefore my bare assertion of the fact might edly true that in that year there was a ...
... seen forty extracts from letters upon this subject , starving in the midst of abundance , and that we can find room but for six . ] It is undoubt- therefore my bare assertion of the fact might edly true that in that year there was a ...
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... seen since . In short , Sir , if thousands are not immediately sent into these counties , particularly to Mayo and the west of Galway , without the fear of contradiction , I say that large proportions must die . It is now become so bad ...
... seen since . In short , Sir , if thousands are not immediately sent into these counties , particularly to Mayo and the west of Galway , without the fear of contradiction , I say that large proportions must die . It is now become so bad ...
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... seen . There get to Nottingham a day before it was was not a single degenerate plant in the held , and then I intended to go off to whole field ; and the plants were sur- Norwich , be at the Meeting , and then prisingly uniform in size ...
... seen . There get to Nottingham a day before it was was not a single degenerate plant in the held , and then I intended to go off to whole field ; and the plants were sur- Norwich , be at the Meeting , and then prisingly uniform in size ...
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... seen in many of the fields in Surrey and in Hampshire . Yes , the stakes put up in the fields , twisted round with straw , and then covered over with garments to frighten away the birds , I have never seen covered with such miserable ...
... seen in many of the fields in Surrey and in Hampshire . Yes , the stakes put up in the fields , twisted round with straw , and then covered over with garments to frighten away the birds , I have never seen covered with such miserable ...
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... seen since I left London . Here , as elsewhere , all the trouble was taken off our hands ; the theatre was prepared in a very nice manner ; and the house was full , boxes , pit , and gallery . We had no trouble of any sort . In my ...
... seen since I left London . Here , as elsewhere , all the trouble was taken off our hands ; the theatre was prepared in a very nice manner ; and the house was full , boxes , pit , and gallery . We had no trouble of any sort . In my ...
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Page 641 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 501 - Enter them, and look at the bits of chairs or stools; the wretched boards tacked together, to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags on the backs of the wretched inhabitants...
Page 597 - ... even the cottagers, deprived of the commons on which they formerly fed their cattle, were reduced to misery : and a decay of people, as well as a diminution of the former plenty, was remarked in the kingdom...
Page 177 - I have directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. They have been framed with every attention to economy which the circumstances of the country will permit...
Page 101 - Judicial forms do not easily lend themselves to an effectual repression. This truth has long since struck reflecting minds ; it has lately become still more evident. To satisfy the wants which caused its institution, the repression ought to be prompt and strong; it has been slow, weak, and almost null. When it interferes, the mischief is already done, and the punishment, far from repairing it, only adds the scandal of the discussion.