Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test. Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million,... Speeches and Letters on Reform: With a Preface - Page 164by Robert Lowe Sherbrooke (Viscount) - 1867 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1860 - 1124 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a lull meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and sometimes a litilo rioting; but it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power... | |
| English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and...little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. The supremo power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select — of an educated class —... | |
| Anonymous - 1861 - 604 pages
...monstrous iniquity that one man should have a "Billion while another cannot get a full meal. In bad ye/irs there is plenty of grumbling here, and sometimes a...sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is m the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select — of an educated cj*a— of a class which is... | |
| Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 676 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and...supreme power is ' in the hands of a class, numerous ipdeed, but select; of an educated class; of a class which is, and knows itself to be, deeply interested... | |
| Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 670 pages
...administration. But these last were the very conditions, which Macaulay eulogizes, to wit: "The supreme power was in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select; of an educated class; of a class, which was, and knew itself to be, deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order."... | |
| John Lord - History - 1896 - 644 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and...rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order ; accordingly the malcontents... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 488 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity'that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and...rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class, immerous indeed, but select ; of an educated class ; of a class which is, and knows itself to be, deeply... | |
| Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...universal suffrage. England he felt was safe, for he hoasted that in England, to use his own words, "The supreme power is in the hands of a class, numerous indeed, hut select, of an educated class, of a class which is, and knows itself to he, deeply interested in... | |
| Education - 1920 - 392 pages
...it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million while another cannot get a full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and...rulers. The supreme power is in the hands of a class deeply interested in the security of property and the maintenance of order ; accordingly the malcontents... | |
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