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1829 Aug. 7
Reformists reviewed (2) II Semi-Reformists
Lord Goderich
Learned gentlemen are not the only sort of person in
whom mixture of godliness in so far as it is either given or at
worst unaccompanied with less may reasonably be expected
without any overweaning good issue of human nature be
expected. Ministers Official men in departmental
admonishment, afford constitute another. Witness in the course
of his premiership, Lord Goderich One of the sort of instruments
by which Law elements of justice is effected is that composed
of Law Taxes taxes upon the written instruments employed
in judicial procedure. In the case of every man by By the contents what it will
when the tax when a tax being imposed upon the community by
has not wherewithal to pay for it, the tax is has the effect a prohibition
In his pamphlet entitled Protest against Law Taxes,
the proposition had to Mr Bullen been diminished by
words a few, and clear and that case an English
Minister could find him to turn to the documentation, and entitled
to comprehend it. By the ouster of this tax not only
were all men in the capacity of or content
benefited, but what was of much more consequence, in the way
that has just been mentioned learned gentlemen learned gentlemen
of all sorts and sizes likewise. there was a quantity of prosperity
to be reaped: respect and any the smallest successes
in any shape — Lord Goderich put in for it and reaped
it. In the place situation of Lord Goderich here and there it even
might perhaps have looked out for the individual, to whose
labour he was stood indebted for this the species of benefit so next of kin
to the bubble of which the name is honor. Lord Goderich
was not of the number. Reward in the same shape for this
as for so many other services was received on this occasion
by his Reformists — on the part of him some, hatred, on the part of
others envy, on the part of others jealousy, on the part of the
rest of his contemparies colleagues — indifference and its token and accompaniment,
silence.
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