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tlie fact thilt they saw religion disfigured qunckish impostures and degraded into engine state policy The very ..

... many visionary schemes but think tliere was more than enougli ballast the constitution witlistand the impulse and far may speak the face living witnesses what know only written report most the reforms avowedly souglit that time were nccessury themselves ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Monday instant came

... labourers the ..-of the committee for whose maintenance even the most rediiccd scale large sum must reqiur Green-room report speaks very favourably tlie new farce produccd to-nig and which understand the production literary character considerable eminence ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1516 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

flinty . 1 ' or tlic _people h . _iMnR _reserved to thcin _' _. _clviiii _( lie clioicr of

... the _resolutions _, observed : — Of _the _nature and _extent ol ' public _dislress in . _tiuspl-. ice , _I am _enabled to speak with some _dCirr-J ' p . . of precision . —The _liynt _^ olent disposition _ol _the _more _opulent piir _^ ol ' Ilie _wiliibicints ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4791 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

that the greater _portion of them _would be _permanent . _Me _denied that _tirorc was any Sinking _Kind , and

... virtually and oporativcly tlicra vias _no Sinking Fund . —He said _thin , _because _the _lirtit duty of _Parliament _was to speak truth to _the _people , and _( lie _next wa _: > , by _the strictest _economy to reduce the public cxpcncos . The House _ought ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1453 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Da _ADAM SMITH lias told us , that Kings anil _Ministers arc _always , _and without any _exception ,

... Eiicli we hold iiny assertion to be wliich is disproved by _all _experience . Dr Smith , wlio wrote _, in _1775 , after _speaking of _the most _expensive war in wliich this _country _lind at _that-time ever _bi- _^ n _mgaiscd , _and mentioning how _f ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3037 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

which Pitt nnd Wilberforcc had _been _seeking , in _co-operation with Mr Tooke , ten or _twelve _years _before

... _the _period to which I _liavcjust alluded , the Social . Order men did not _content _themselvMi _liowcvcr , with writing , _speaking-and associating . Great ai _were tlic _advantages tliat tliey _possessed in this way , they _ihired not _rely upon _them ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1046 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

\ CRANIOLOGY

... our Scotish nristoeratical _fiimilics who liavo tlie all ' air of _Representation in tlieil own _lands , it is idle t _( _speak ol ' , _them . Their _organs of pride arc of as _absurd n magnitude we _believe _, as those of tlie _Turkish _IJaih-WE _, or ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1016 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... _where no net of _discontent had _been even in _.-inifostrd , _were p . _i ? i _, cd _over without _coirmeiit . But they _are _speaking _rvidciws _of _the _quiet _disposition of tile great mass of tile _nation , tliou _^ l' siii . irting _under iiic . _ilcnhblr ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5359 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

broken down , but iiiuintaiiied at its present _establishment _of fiOOOrncn . _Of roiiiw , n _i . _irgu reduction

... side of _the _House , and then _six _Gentlemen from the _oilier _side—and certainly nothing _could , _aritlunc _' tically speaking , be _more _exact , with _reference to the two parties ; _liut _( lien , if _they _wore to look _to tlie working of tlic ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5987 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Now , _aa tlie present times exhibit , in all _these _respects , a _complete _contruat to the _times of

... _circumstances , and _probably _his _health . _No man could venture to lift his voice _against _oppression .. _Tire liberty of speaking or writing would ibe , at an end , and the power of thinking would soon follow . Capital _would soon be consumed _; industry ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3268 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

KIRKINTILLOCH PETITION

... Reform could _have but _recently _expected from the _coldness , caution _, _and _patience of northern _politicians , not to speak of the torovgli _subservience , _which we know shuts so many mouths . In proof of this growing spirit of _northern _independence ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1817
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 706 | Page: 7 | Tags: none