On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to William Smith, 1817.-On the rise and progress of popular disaffection, 1817.-On the means of improving the people, 1818.-Two letters concerning Lord Byron, 1822-1824.-On emigration, 1828.-On the Catholic question, 1809, 1812, 1828John Murray, 1832 |
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Σελίδα 12
... enemy . Such would be the consequence of making the government subordinate to public opinion . Pub- * 1 Samuel , c . xxii . v . 2 . lic opinion has already attained in this country the utmost 12 ON SIR F. BURDETT'S MOTION.
... enemy . Such would be the consequence of making the government subordinate to public opinion . Pub- * 1 Samuel , c . xxii . v . 2 . lic opinion has already attained in this country the utmost 12 ON SIR F. BURDETT'S MOTION.
Σελίδα 17
... upon our dilapidated resources and in- tolerable burdens , the irresistible strength of the enemy , and the necessity of making peace with a C power which it is impossible for us to withstand . FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . 17.
... upon our dilapidated resources and in- tolerable burdens , the irresistible strength of the enemy , and the necessity of making peace with a C power which it is impossible for us to withstand . FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . 17.
Σελίδα 20
... employ more men than are barely sufficient to match the enemy in the field , in those countries which we have designed to wrest from him , .. as if it would be an unfair advantage to send more troops 20 ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR .
... employ more men than are barely sufficient to match the enemy in the field , in those countries which we have designed to wrest from him , .. as if it would be an unfair advantage to send more troops 20 ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR .
Σελίδα 21
... enemy whom an addi- tional force would have frightened into submis- sion ; .. and for its ruinous consequences in other cases , it is needless to refer to examples which are still too fresh in remembrance . This inadequacy of force has ...
... enemy whom an addi- tional force would have frightened into submis- sion ; .. and for its ruinous consequences in other cases , it is needless to refer to examples which are still too fresh in remembrance . This inadequacy of force has ...
Σελίδα 22
... enemy was increasing in strength ; .. this also is demonstrably a certain road to ruin . We have at this time an efficient re- gular army of upwards of 250,000 men . then , if we could lay this island alongside France , should prevent ...
... enemy was increasing in strength ; .. this also is demonstrably a certain road to ruin . We have at this time an efficient re- gular army of upwards of 250,000 men . then , if we could lay this island alongside France , should prevent ...
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On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of ... Robert Southey Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1832 |
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Σελίδα 375 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Σελίδα 421 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Σελίδα 174 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Σελίδα 184 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Σελίδα 85 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Σελίδα 11 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Σελίδα 174 - Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Σελίδα 92 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders...
Σελίδα 373 - More saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter, for, being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most of any man in that presence and company. So Master More called this old aged man unto him, and said, father...
Σελίδα 173 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...