 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1874 - 352 pages
...liberty be still to be secured by the laws of our forefathers, or be to lay at the absolute mercy of a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary/or me to describe.' ' One cannot,' so the argument concluded, ' help entertaining a fear... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 pages
...greatest happiness of the greatest number " as the aim of political action. In 1809 Sir Francis Burdett revived the question of Parliamentary Reform. Only...the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. A far greater effect was produced by the perseverance with which Canning pressed year... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 654 pages
...questioning the right of such a house to commit for breach of privilege, seeing that it consisted of " a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." This description of the house of commons, at this time, and for long afterwards, was too happy a definition... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1878 - 602 pages
...appealing to Magna Charta, he contrasted " the laws of our forefathers " with the declarations of " a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." Mr. Lethbridge brought the letter under the notice of the House. Burdett declared that he had never... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1878 - 596 pages
...appealing to Magna Charta, he contrasted "the laws of our forefathers " with the declarations of " a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." Mr. Lethbridge brought the letter under the notice of the House. Burdett declared that he had never... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1880 - 596 pages
...the aim of 078 CHAP. V. England 18O1 1815 r,rar with political action. In 1809 Sir Francis Burdett revived the question of Parliamentary Reform. Only...the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. A far greater effect was produced by the perseverance with which Canning pressed year... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1880 - 562 pages
..." as the aim of VoL. IV.—25 CHAP. V. political action. In 1809 Sir Francis Burdett revived the nd question of Parliamentary Reform. Only fifteen members...the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. A far greater effect was produced by the perseverance with which Canning pressed year... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1881 - 288 pages
...scanty support; and a pamphlet which he afterwards wrote in which he described the members of parliament as " a part of our fellow-subjects collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe," led to reprisals, and his committal to the Tower. He was for a while the idol of the electors, and... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1882 - 504 pages
...greatest happiness of the greatest number" as the aim of political action. In 1809 Sir Francis Burdett revived the question of parliamentary reform. Only...committal to the Tower, where he remained till the prorogating of the parliament. A far greater effect was produced by the perseverance with which Canning... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1883 - 546 pages
...reference to the House of i sot Commons in a pamphlet which he subsequently published, IBIS. as " a p ar j. o f our fellow-subjects collected together by means...the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. A far greater effect was produced by the perseverance with which Canning pressed year... | |
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Commons, in a pamphlet which he subsequently published, as " a part of our fellow-subjects collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe" was met by his committal to the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. 
