English Radical LeadersG. P. Putnam's sons, 1875 - 374 стор. |
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Сторінка 209 - And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Сторінка 261 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Сторінка 228 - The Toleration Act renders that which was illegal before, now legal. The Dissenters' way of worship is permitted and allowed by this act. It is not only exempted from punishment, but rendered innocent and lawful. It is established; it is put under the protection, and is not merely under the connivance of the law.
Сторінка 355 - There shall be provided for every school district a sufficient amount of accommodation in Public Elementary Schools available for all the children resident in such district for whose elementary education efficient and suitable provision is not otherwise made...
Сторінка 268 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Сторінка 351 - Ha! ha! ha! I understand: you took them in a round, while they supposed themselves going forward; and so you have at last brought them home again. Tony. You shall hear. I first took them down Featherbed Lane, where we stuck fast in the mud.
Сторінка 351 - Lane, where we stuck fast in the mud. I then rattled them crack over the stones of Up-and-down Hill. I then introduced them to the gibbet on Heavy-tree Heath; and from that, with a circumbendibus I fairly lodged them in the horse-pond at the bottom of the garden.
Сторінка 30 - Well, if you can show me a fair chance that a republic here will be free from the political corruption that hangs about the monarchy, I say, for my part — and I believe that the middle classes in general will say — let it come.'1 This part of the speech caused a furore of indignation. Sir Charles' words were twisted and many newspapers alleged that he was 'threatening to overthrow the monarchy'.
Сторінка 278 - Good people,' cried the preacher, 'things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride?
Сторінка 352 - Local authorities shall be compelled by law to see that sufficient school accommodation is provided for every child in their district. 2. The cost of founding and maintaining such schools as may be required shall be provided out of local rates, supplemented by Government grants.