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... pOR A NATION TO LOVE LIBERTY - , IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE KNOWS IT; AND TO BE FREE, IT IS SUFFICIENT THAT SHE WILLS IT.” M. De La Fayette. ...

WAGES OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

... Or. the first institution of the House of Commons, the members appear to have received wages for attending their duties as senators. In the fourteenth year of the reign of Edward the Second, certain tenants in ancient demesne, laimed to be exempt from paying wages to the knights of the shires, for as much as they and their ancestors, tenants of the same manor, had from time immemorial been ...

THE CHARTIST CIRCULAR

... Parable of the Fig Tree. He spake also this parable : A certain man had a fiff tree p'anted in his vineyard, and came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, behold, these three years I came seeking fruit this fig tree, and find none : cut it down—why cumbereth the ground ? And answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, ti:l I ...

THE CHARTIST CIRCULAR

... lihood with foreign powers; your would have been contented and happy, instead of being obliged to have recourse to subscriptions to keep them from starvation. As it now is, France will soon have the trade of Brazils: you have in your own colonies more cotton and sugar than you want, and, consequently, will not take the productions of the Brazils in exchange for your merchandize. Now the French ...

Glasgow, Saturday, December 26, 1840. Price One-Halfpenny

... tending to have such care and concern for the interests of working men, must have some specific purpose in view by their constant advocacy and regular recommendation of Savings’ Banks. Their purposes—their real purposes, we now propose to develope—to place before our readers, so that they may understand, and be upon their guard. In Britain the whole population is divided into two distinct ...

freemen, the Best Soldiers

... the American War of Independence, so little was known in Britain of the courage of,freemen, or of the character of the people of the United States, that they were believed to be so cowardly and timid that THE CHARTIST CIRCULAR. 1000 men would be sufficient to put down the insurrection in the New England States. The Battle of Bunker’s Hill, which, in some regiments, the youngest ensign in the ...

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