 | John McMahon - 1913 - 466 pàgines
...that the Parliament would never listen to their petition. How could they think of it ? AG oveniir.cn t in every country should be just like a Corporation ; and in this country it is rcad« up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented. As for the rabble, who... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 490 pàgines
...trial, stated the Tory view in plain terms when he told the jury: " The Government in this country is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented. As for rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them ?" As at all the other... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 pàgines
...address to the jury at the close of the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition, at Edinburgh in August 1793: ''A Government in every country should be just like...Country it is made up of the landed interest, which a. ne has a right to be represented. As for the rabble, who hve nothing but personal property, what... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1924 - 1276 pàgines
...address to the jury at the close of the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition, at Edinburgh in August 1793: "A Government in every country should be just like...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation upon them? What security for the payment of their taxes? They may pack up all their property... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 288 pàgines
...lordship, " but now I hate them." And yet a little further on : "A government in any country should be like a corporation; and in this country it is made...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them? They may pack up their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling... | |
 | Frederick Charles Dietz - 1927 - 812 pàgines
...preach the necessity of reform at a time of excitement was seditious. "The landed interest alone had a right to be represented. As for the rabble who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation on them?" Lord Abercromby declared in another case, "Gentlemen, the right of universal suffrage... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 pàgines
...lordship, "but now I hate them." And yet a little farther on: "A government in any country should be like a corporation; and in this country it is made...have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them? They may pack up their property on their backs, and leave the country in the twinkling... | |
 | Frank Murcot Bladen - 1893 - 980 pàgines
...have told them that the Parliament would never listen to their petition. How could they think of it? A government in every country should be just like a corporation ; and in this country it is iniule up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented. As for the rabble, who... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1991 - 640 pàgines
...the Edinburgh treason trials, used a different metaphor but to similar effect. 'A government in svery country should be just like a corporation, and in...is made up of the landed interest, which alone has the right to be represented. As for the rabble who have nothing but personal property, what hold has... | |
 | James Vernon - 1996 - 284 pàgines
...world'. As for political representation, the landed interest alone had the right to representation; 'as for the rabble, who have nothing but personal property, what hold has the nation of them?' 45 'Bring me prisoners, and I'll find you law', Braxfield was reported to have told... | |
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A Government in every country should be just like a Corporation,* and in this country it is made up of the landed interest which alone has a right to be represented. 
