Richard Cobden and the Free TradersTyne Publishing Company, 1881 - 298 стор. |
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Сторінка 37 - He seems not to have considered that in the political body the natural effort which every man is continually making to better his own condition is a principle of preservation capable of preventing and correcting, in many respects, the bad effects of a political economy, in some degree both partial and oppressive.
Сторінка 207 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labor and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice.
Сторінка 39 - Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
Сторінка 38 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and .capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.
Сторінка 179 - For my part, if we are to have Free Trade, I, who honour genius, prefer that such measures should be proposed by the hon. member for Stockport [Mr. Cobden] than by one who through skilful Parliamentary manoeuvres has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and a great party.
Сторінка 72 - CAGED RATS. Ye coop us up, and tax our bread, And wonder why we pine; But ye are fat, and round, and red, And filled with tax-bought wine. Thus twelve rats starve while three rats thrive. (Like you on mine and me,) When fifteen rats are caged alive, With food for nine and three. Haste ! Havoe's torch begins to glow — The ending is begun ; Make haste! Destruction thinks ye slow; Make haste to be undone ! Why are ye called ' my Lord,' and ' Squire,' While fed by mine and me, And wringing food, and...
Сторінка 234 - ... view of the advantages of its position, we shall adopt a similar motto for our policy ; and then we shall hear no more mention of that costly chimera...
Сторінка 196 - It is no easy task to ensure the united action of an ancient monarchy, a proud aristocracy and a reformed constituency.
Сторінка 239 - That this House has heard with concern of the conflicts which have occurred between the British and Chinese authorities in the Canton river, and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid npon the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair...
Сторінка 110 - It will be for you to consider whether some of these duties are not so trifling in amount as to be unproductive to the revenue, while they are vexatious to commerce.