The Rise and Growth of Democracy in Great BritainStone, 1898 - 252 sider |
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adopted affairs agitation agricultural aims amidst aroused artisans Bentham Birmingham Birmingham Political Union British cause champions Chartist chief claims classes Cobbett constitution demands democracy democratic desire discontent Disraeli districts duty effect efforts Eight Hours Bill election electoral endeavoured enfranchised England English favour Feargus O'Connor force foreign policy franchise gained Gladstone Gladstone's Hetherington House of Commons industrial influence interests John Bright John Stuart Mill Joseph Sturge labour land landlords leaders legislation Liberal London Lord John Russell Lovett measure ment ministry misery moral moral-force movement nature O'Connor Owen paper Parliament parliamentary party peace Peel People's Charter physical-force political Poor-law popular principle programme proposed question Radical redistribution Reform Bill result Robert Owen seemed Sir Robert Peel social society speedily Sturge suffrage taxes thinkers tion Tory towns trade Trade-unionism Union United Kingdom unstamped Vincent votes wages wealth Westminster Whig working-classes working-men
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Side 171 - So graced the sunshine of that day. The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage ; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise, In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height...
Side 158 - So complete was my father's reliance on the influence of reason over the minds of mankind, whenever it is allowed to reach them, that he felt as if all would be gained if the whole population were taught to read, if all sorts of opinions were allowed to be addressed to them by word and in writing, and if by means of the suffrage they could nominate a legislature to give effect to the opinions they adopted.
Side 82 - Next cool, and all unconscious of reproach, Comes the calm "Johnny who upset the coach."* How formed to lead, if not too proud to please, — His fame would fire you, but his manners freeze. Like or dislike, he does not care a jot; He wants your vote, but your...
Side 229 - They put on record at the same time, however, that their object was the "collective ownership and control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
Side 174 - You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. The great social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty, and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impede or disturb— those great social forces are against you : they are marshalled on our side ; and the banner which we now carry...
Side 48 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community; and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men, who are a part only of that community...
Side 122 - For no subject of England can be constrained to pay any aids or taxes, even for the defence of the realm or the support of government, but such as are imposed by his own consent, or that of his representatives in parliament.
Side 44 - Wages should form the price of goods ; Yes, wages should be all, Then we who work to make the goods Should justly have them all ; But if their price be made of rent. Tithes, taxes, profits all. Then we who work to make the goods Shall have — just none at all.
Side 159 - ... identity of partialities, passions, and prejudices ; and to give to any one set of partialities, passions, and prejudices, absolute power, without counterbalance from partialities, passions, and prejudices of a different sort, is the way to render the correction of any of those imperfections hopeless; to make one narrow, mean type of human nature universal and perpetual, and to crush every influence which tends to the further improvement of man's intellectual and moral nature.