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III Experience
II Ireland
(2) §.7 J.B. Parl. Cat. confirmed
Well do I remember the effect produced by the then existing circumstance
in the language held in the House of Lords. +. But + ☞ Insert here passage in
another sheet?
having at that time as at all times declined taking a part
in the schemes or measures of any party declined all mixture in party
politics, I neither obtained received nor sought any particular reformation
in detail relative either to the particular causes or the consequences of that this extraordinary and always
unscrupulous phenomenon
a momentary for obsequiousness of the ruling (as to the interest and desires of the subject manydeference to the general will of
the contemplation of which
was so delightful to me, on the part of the ruling few
a momentary obsequiousness to the interest and will of
the subject many — a momentary fulfilment of an everlasting
duty of that which, if in point mouths of rulers the
everywhere but in a representative democracy the word
duty were any thing better than a mockery would be an
everlasting duty.
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Well remembers he
the sensation experienced
from the power-resigning
speeches in
the Lords. [ Passage from
the other sheet] But
having at all times
declined taking part
with party, neither
causes nor consequences;
did he
scrutinize into:
absorbed in the delight
of seeing the ruling
few for a moment
fulfil performing their
duty to subject many,
if any every where
else but in a representative
democracy
duty were not a
mockery.
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radicalism not dangerous |
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radicalism not dangerous |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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