... the sweat of the people; and it was distinctly stated, during the Session of Parliament before the last, that the widows and children of insane officers were to have the same treatment as the rest! Here is the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration... Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 7491821Full view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1820 - 684 pages
...Constitution." JUDGE. — What ! Can rotten boroughs be the soundest part of the Constitution, which is " the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world " > Mr. CANNING.- (. fellow is a Radical himself.) Yes, they may, and they are, and the rottener they... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1821 - 792 pages
...WARWICK-JAIL and, second, the fact, as stated by the Agricultural Committee, that (under a constitution which is the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world) farms arc become not worth cultivating; that being the fair meaning of the second paragraph of the... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 844 pages
...quantity of punishment awarded to him? — and this too in London, the metropolis of a country which is, " the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world!" Really this is too much! But I dare say they have parallel cases in Algiers and Turkey; and while a... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...intolerance as this : a system under which Кпц1Ыш1сп who boast of living under я (¡overnmcnt which is " the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world," can be trans|K>rted from a country, at the distance of half the globe, without trial by judge or jury,... | |
 | 1824 - 846 pages
...quantity of punishment awarded to him? — and this too in London, the metropolis of a country which is, " the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world!" Really this is too much! But 1 dare say tkey have parallel cases in Algiers and Turkey; and while a... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pages
...that the widows and children of insane officers were to have the same treatment as the rest ! Here is the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world ! In addition, then, to twenty thousand parsons, more than twenty thousand stock-brokers and stock-jobbers... | |
 | William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 524 pages
...or publisher in the realm, and has a« good reason to rejoice at living under " a Constitution that is the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world." But how is he to get the hundred pounds P He Im a them not; mind that, my Lord. He must borrow them... | |
 | 1835 - 1034 pages
...Luky Ewing — (pointing to the Moth). — Gentlemen, I now propose a very particular toast. — It is, " The envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world." The Calf here sang Jenny's bawbee ! Secretary Wathins. — Gentlemen, we are really neglecting the... | |
 | James Grant - Political Science - 1836 - 850 pages
...consecrated in his eyes as those parts of the Constitution which, laying all irony aside, are really the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world. " What ever is, is right," was his- grand maxim in such cases. Not even the criminal code, sanguinary and... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...for the slight degree of egotism attributable to honest John Bull ? He boasts 44 a constitution which is the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world." And «ben.it is remembered that many compliments to this effect have reached his patriotic ear, it... | |
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