The School for Statesmen: Or, The Public Man's Manual: Being a Complete Guide to the Constitution Since the Reform Bill |
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Σελίδα 274 - In some counties property is more,' and in others it is less subdivided. In Cheshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and one or two other counties, there are comparatively few small proprietors ; but the latter predominate in most parts of the West of England, in the North, and generally throughout the country. On the whole, we believe it may be safely affirmed, that by far the largest portion of the kingdom is parcelled into properties of less than 1,000/. a year. It is not difficult to account for...
Σελίδα 147 - The personal exemptions do indeed for the most part continue. A clergyman cannot be compelled to serve on a jury, nor to appear at a court'leet...
Σελίδα 106 - ... of supports, equal in size, touching each other at the top, so as to leave flat quadrilateral spaces, circular in all their horizontal sections and forming two half arches, diverging from each other, in every vertical section through the spring. Since I have considered the subject of vaulting in the point of view in which I have endeavoured to place it before you, I have been less inclined than formerly to prefer to the English system, complicated as it may appear at first sight, the simpler...
Σελίδα 211 - it is better that a guilty man should escape than that an innocent man should suffer.
Σελίδα 142 - ... reports), that no man is privileged to publish, and offer for general sale, matter which is libellous, notwithstanding such matter be printed for a report to the House of Commons. Upon this decision, the House of Commons instituted a Committee of Privileges, who made a report, confirming the right of the House of Commons to authorize a general publication of its reports (10).
Σελίδα 5 - You will perceive that without sound principles of moral action — of philosophy — politics are but a paltry material. If you do not understand this, you have studied to little purpose, and have not communed aright with the great minds that have lately engaged your attention. Leave to dull pert sophists * See " Notices of Motions" in any Parliamentary Sessions
Σελίδα 251 - Whigs," but become identified with the Radicals. There is then an end of the Whig party. They are merged in the Radical body. The former Tory party has, as you say, been forced to profess itself a " reforming body" since the Reform charter. Well, their reform extends in principle merely to wholesome improvement and correction of abuses, and not to a subversion of the constitution. As a reforming body then they are what the old Whigs were. * See the " Historical Note
Σελίδα 67 - bank restriction" is a terrible thing even, (as it was in the time of Pitt,) with the authority of government, and a country fully taxed to pay the interest of the debt. But only imagine the contingency of a revolutionary cessation of all public resources ! Of all payments into the exchequer! — Of the funds! Who would willingly support any democratic measure that could promote such a result?
Σελίδα 3 - I was not a little amused at your answer to the sober sadness of my "experience!" It is difficult to face the chaste but somewhat demure aspect of Truth, after gazing on the dazzling illusions of Fancy. I do not wonder, with your mind heated with the harangues of antiquity, — with the glowing sentiments breathed through those pages which your recent academical pursuits have busied you over, —that you should wish to display a little of the ardour with which they have imbued you, and that you feel...
Σελίδα 66 - French revolution any subversion of the form of government, — any annihilation of monarchy? No! no such thing! A mere substitution of a better set of ministers, and a better trustee of the charge of monarchy, than was found in the former abjured set! So that the "triumphant testimony" fails in its cogency of proof.