Life of the Right Hon. Jesse Collings |
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acres adopted agricultural workers Allotments Extension amendment Association AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN became Beville Stanier Bill Birmingham Board of Agriculture Booth boys Broadhembury brought carried Chamberlain CHAPTER Charity Commissioners Committee Corn Laws cottage County Council cultivation Devon Election emigration England Exeter Exmouth farms father favour franchise friends gave Gladstone Government House of Commons Industrial School interest Jesse Collings JOSEPH ARCH land reform Land Settlement Facilities landlords large number legislation letter Littleham Lord Lord Salisbury measure ment mother motion National Agricultural Labourers night occupied parish Parliament party passed peasant proprietary poor present President principle proposed proprietors prosperity public meeting received referred regard resolution rural districts Rural Labourers Rural League rural reform Samuel Booth scheme secure ship small holdings Society speech tion told took town Union urged village vote Warwickshire West Lavington whilst wrote
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Page 52 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Page 88 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 144 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 49 - The moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wipe out a word of it.
Page 158 - That in the opinion of this House it is desirable that sex should cease to be a bar to the exercise of the Parliamentary Franchise.
Page 76 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode or proper guardianship or visible means of subsistence...
Page 52 - ... fiftythree. Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came, Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame; Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and her shame.
Page 182 - Majesty for the present relief of these classes, and especially for affording facilities to the agricultural labourers and others in the rural districts to obtain allotments and small holdings on equitable terms as to rent and security of tenure.
Page 20 - I'LL sing you a good old song, Made by a good old pate, Of a fine old English gentleman Who had an old estate, And who kept up his old mansion At a bountiful old rate; With a good old porter to relieve The old poor at his gate, Like a fine old English gentleman All of the olden time.
Page 163 - says Mr. Kay, " it is a notorious fact, that during the last thirty years, and since the peasants became the proprietors of the land, there has been a rapid and continual improvement in the condition of the houses, in the manner of living, in the dress of the peasants, and particularly in the culture of the land. I have twice walked through that part of Saxony called Saxon...