 I think the scattered elements may yet be rallied round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in the same manner that the question of slavery has been,...  The Life of Richard Cobden - Page 98by John Morley - 1881 - 640 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1882 - 844 pages
...gathered round the question of the Corn Laws. , It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible " (vol. i., p. 126). The Corn Laws had from the beginning been unpopular with the work-people in Lancashire.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1882 - 782 pages
...rallied round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible." In the autumn of the year in which these wise words were written, the Anti-Corn Law League was founded.... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - 900 pages
...gathered round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible " (Vol. I., p. 126). The Corn Laws had from the beginning been unpopular with the workpeople in Lancashire.... | |
 | 1882 - 528 pages
...rallied round the question of the corn laws. It appears to me that a moral, and even a religious, spirit may be infused into that topic, and, if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible." In the year before these words were penned an Anti-Corn Law Association had been formed in London,... | |
 | Religion - 1882 - 896 pages
...gathered round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible " (Vol. I., p. 126). The Corn Laws had from the beginning been unpopular with the workpeople in Lancashire.... | |
 | James Richard Joy - Biography - 1902 - 290 pages
...rallied round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral, and even a religious, spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible." The purposes of the Manchester Anti-Corn Law Association are thus stated by Morley: "To obtain by all... | |
 | Scotland - 1903 - 1122 pages
...rallied round the question of the corn laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible." Such was the spirit of at least one free-trade leader, and he, admittedly, the most representative... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free trade - 1905 - 240 pages
...rallied round the question of the Corn Laws. It appears to me that a moral and even a religious spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been it will be irresistible'." Cobden's object one with which we can fully sympathise ; he regarded this economic agitation as a means... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1906 - 1020 pages
...a moral and even a religious itpirit may I be infused into iha,t topic, and if agitated vn the name manner that the question of slavery has been, it will...particularly with reference to the Prussian Union." 4 Yet Cobden had in his heart no illusions on the subject of hia countrymen, or their special susceptibility... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1908 - 516 pages
...rallied round the qnestion of the corn laws. It appears to me that a moral, and even a religions spirit may be infused into that topic, and if agitated in...question of slavery has been, it will be irresistible." Morley, Life of Cobden, I. 126. 9 It was enlarged in this year from an Anti-Com-Law Association which... | |
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