Cobbett's Two-penny Trash, Or, Politics for the Poor, Volume 2author, and sold at no. 11, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, and may be had of all Booksllers, 1831 - Great Britain - 288 pages |
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... miserable and degrading system of TRUCK , in order to get the profits of the shop - keeper , the house - owner , the butcher , the baker , and , as in some parts of Stafford and Warwick - shires , even the profits of the barber ! When ...
... miserable and degrading system of TRUCK , in order to get the profits of the shop - keeper , the house - owner , the butcher , the baker , and , as in some parts of Stafford and Warwick - shires , even the profits of the barber ! When ...
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... miserable rags , instead of that good and decent clothing with which their forefathers were covered . 19. Such is a general description of the state of the coun- try , the parliament of which , Sir JAMES GRAHAM tells us , is " the ...
... miserable rags , instead of that good and decent clothing with which their forefathers were covered . 19. Such is a general description of the state of the coun- try , the parliament of which , Sir JAMES GRAHAM tells us , is " the ...
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... miserable potatoes , and this amidst all this corn , and meat , and milk , and butter , and cheese ! Amidst this misery , crime stalke abroad in open day ; the jails have been augmented four - fold in the space of a few years ! At the ...
... miserable potatoes , and this amidst all this corn , and meat , and milk , and butter , and cheese ! Amidst this misery , crime stalke abroad in open day ; the jails have been augmented four - fold in the space of a few years ! At the ...
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... miserable lives , and come to a miser- able end , and this is the firm opinion of one who has had more experience in such matters than any man in England . ONE HAND TIED . ON Wednesday , the 20th of July , as the Morning Chronicle tells ...
... miserable lives , and come to a miser- able end , and this is the firm opinion of one who has had more experience in such matters than any man in England . ONE HAND TIED . ON Wednesday , the 20th of July , as the Morning Chronicle tells ...
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... miserable pittance ; and why is it thus so well in " France ? Because , and only because , there are no rotten " boroughs and no boroughmongers in France ; only because " the people choose their representatives themselves , and " choose ...
... miserable pittance ; and why is it thus so well in " France ? Because , and only because , there are no rotten " boroughs and no boroughmongers in France ; only because " the people choose their representatives themselves , and " choose ...
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Page 154 - For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you ; not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 163 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 163 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 163 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 44 - Brougham applied to the court for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the Rev.
Page 154 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 163 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Page 236 - Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Page 160 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines, contrary to God's word...
Page 161 - Will you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?