 ... the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. And, give them but a House of Commons constructed on their own principles, — the peerage and the throne may exist for a day,...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1111859Full view - About this book
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1825 - 462 pages
...own history, — that the prerogatives of the crown and the privileges of the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy....the earth by the first angry vote of such a House of Conations. It is, therefore, utterly unnecessary for the reformers to declare hostility to the crown... | |
 | 1829 - 476 pages
...our own history—that the prerogatives of the crown and the privileges of the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy....them but a house of commons constructed on their own principles—the peerage and the throne may exist for a day, hut may be swept from the face of the... | |
 | John Styles, Roger Therry - 1830 - 466 pages
...prerogatives of the crown and t he privileges of the peernge wonld be bnt as dust in the balance ngainst a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. And, give them bnt a honse ol commons constructed on their own principles — the peernge and the throne may exist... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 510 pages
...Commons " alone was the object of their denunciation. " And why ? Because they well knew that with " a House of Commons constructed on their own " principles, the Peerage and the Throne might " exist for a day, but might be swept away at " any moment from the face of the earth by the... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 512 pages
...Commons " alone was the object of their denunciation. " And why ? Because they well knew that with " a House of Commons constructed on their own " principles, the Peerage and the Throne might " exist for a day, but might be swept away at " any moment from the face of the earth by the... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 510 pages
...Commons " alone was the object of their denunciation. " And why ? Because they well knew that with " a House of Commons constructed on their own " principles, the Peerage and the Throne might " exist for a day, but might be swept away at " any moment from the face of the earth by the... | |
 | 1838 - 634 pages
...our own history, that the prerogatives of the crown, and the privileges of the peerage, would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. Give them but a House of Commons constructed on their own principles, — the peerage and the throne... | |
 | Robert Bell - Politicians - 1846 - 376 pages
...reformers mean democracy," he exclaimed, in his celebrated speech at Liverpool on this subject, in 1818; "they mean democracy, and nothing else ; and give...the first angry vote of such a House of Commons." His whole theory is enclosed in .these few words ; making no account whatever of that principle of... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1850 - 640 pages
...our own history, that the prerogatives of the Crown and the privileges of the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy....them but a House of Commons constructed on their own princiEles — the peerage and the throne may exist for a day, but may e swept from the face of the... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 722 pages
...in our history, that the prerogatives of the Crown, and the privileges of the nobility, would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. Give them a House of Commons constructed on their own principles, the peerage and the throne may exist... | |
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