Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 32R. Bagshaw, 1817 - Great Britain |
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... interest supposed in the former case , would , at the end of seven years , amount to about eighty - two pounds ! I have here supposed the case of the common day - labourer who receives no more than seven shillings a week ; and , whether ...
... interest supposed in the former case , would , at the end of seven years , amount to about eighty - two pounds ! I have here supposed the case of the common day - labourer who receives no more than seven shillings a week ; and , whether ...
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... interest of all the money they can possess this heritage ? " Why are they to " sibly have saved during the time they " are single . - Are they , therefore , never " to marry ? Are not those rather to " remain single , who do nothing to ...
... interest of all the money they can possess this heritage ? " Why are they to " sibly have saved during the time they " are single . - Are they , therefore , never " to marry ? Are not those rather to " remain single , who do nothing to ...
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... interest of it : but , if principal and interest should fal a little short of half a million of pounds you will confess , at any rate , that this money , if it had remained amongst the people , might have formed a very nic Saving Bank ...
... interest of it : but , if principal and interest should fal a little short of half a million of pounds you will confess , at any rate , that this money , if it had remained amongst the people , might have formed a very nic Saving Bank ...
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... interest of the Debt . What , then , would the Courier recommend ? Nothing short of an act of parliament , I dare say ! Now , let us suppose him sitting down to frame an act to suit his purpose . I am not supposing , that any minister ...
... interest of the Debt . What , then , would the Courier recommend ? Nothing short of an act of parliament , I dare say ! Now , let us suppose him sitting down to frame an act to suit his purpose . I am not supposing , that any minister ...
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... interest of the Debt ; and , they ought to know , that to silence the press could not possibly pro- any other effect , than that despera - single breach of the peace , and that it tion , which would , and which must , end ended not in ...
... interest of the Debt ; and , they ought to know , that to silence the press could not possibly pro- any other effect , than that despera - single breach of the peace , and that it tion , which would , and which must , end ended not in ...
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Page 335 - ... felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 249 - But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left- to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great, as to render this measure expedient...
Page 389 - ... if the persons so unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled, or any of them, shall happen to be killed, maimed, or hurt in the dispersing, seizing, or apprehending, or endeavouring to disperse, seize, or apprehend them, by reason of their resisting the persons so dispersing, seizing, or apprehending, or endeavouring to disperse, seize, or apprehend them, that then every such justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, mayor, bailiff, head officer, high or petty constable...
Page 335 - ... to command all his majesty's subjects of age and ability to be assisting to them therein), to seize and apprehend, and they are hereby required to seize and apprehend, such persons so unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously continuing together after proclamation made as aforesaid, and forthwith to carry the persons so apprehended before one or more of his majesty's justices of the peace of the county or place where...
Page 391 - ... persons so being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, to the number of twelve, as aforesaid, or more, to whom proclamation should or ought to have been made if the same had not been hindered, as...
Page 69 - Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite : for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him ; Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD ; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD.
Page 293 - They have been told that parliamentary reform is no more than a halfmeasure, changing only one set of thieves for another : and that they must go to the land, as nothing short of that would avail them.
Page 333 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 359 - Napoleon is actually in the power of England ; but he neither has been nor is in the power of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, either in fact or of right even according to the laws and customs of England, which never included, in the exchange of prisoners, Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, though united to these powers by treaties of alliance, and making war conjointly with them.
Page 393 - ... that any person who shall at any time hereafter appear, act, or behave him or herself as master or mistress, or as the person having the care, government, or management, of any...