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... Reform in the Representation of the People in Par- liament . By William Roscoe , Esq . Liverpool . An Answer to a Letter from Mr. John Merritt on the Subject of Parliamentary Reform . By William Roscoe . 265 III . Biographia Dramatica ...
... reform , but by an heartfelt desire of doing good , he had many difficulties to encounter . To interfere with effect in such matters requires not only zeal and earnestness , but good sense and well - tempered discretion . The world , it ...
... reform , think the result of the practice is right in the main , but desire to see the sanguinary statutes abolished , and other provisions introduced in their place more congenial to the spirit and opinions of the age , and more con ...
... reform that threatens to encum- ber the statute law very grievously , when they would select some of the chief and palpable differences which common sense might point out , in the enormity of the same general offence , and make those ...
... reform . He has the merit of having laid his finger upon the very law at which Sir S. Romilly began his work of improvement ; and as we have had to remark upon the opinions in which these two distinguished persons differ , our read- ers ...