This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...as sailors do " the log, throw it overboard to see how far " you sail from it. If your householders are " better than my coachman and gardener, inso-" much as they are nearer to the all, how can you " contend against the Radical that the perfection is " not in going the whole way to the all. If the " ab ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...as sailors do " the log, throw it overboard to see how far " you sail from it. If your householders are " better than my coachman and gardener, inso-" much as they are nearer to the all, how can you " contend against the Radical that the perfection is " not in going the whole way to the all. If the " ab omnibus is too large a term to be filled by " my gardener and coachman, or Lord Fingerfees' " hundred voters, I am sure it is not filled by your " housekeepers." Upon this the Whig waxes wroth: - What, Sir, " would you make me out a Radical? Because I " would gather the fruit of a principle would you " insist on my grubbing to the roots of the tree. " Ne quid nimis, says Terence; half is better than " the whole, says Hesiod; and so say I. Besides, " my constituency including the middle class, will " in a compendious way represent the interests of " the poor--for all that concerns them concerns " the poor." Radical here rushes in again and objects: " But " what concerns the poor does not always concern " the middle classes, and seldom in the same " degree. The weight that presses upon a man " and upon the child may be the same, but the " effect is far different, and so 'it is with the bur-" thens on the richer and the poorer classes. Do " you remember the leather tax, for instance, " which was levied by the weight; the gentleman " wore for luxury his light boot or shoe, and was " lightly taxed accordingly; the tradesman had his " stouter shoe, which paid a little more, enough to " make an injustice, but not enough to affect his " purse to a degree worth thinking about; but the " ploughman and labourer, in his strong heavy " boots, paid the tax in sevenfold proportion, and " ate the less bread in consequence! Here was a " wrong of trifling...
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