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“THE RIGHTS of WOMEN” or the EFFECTS of FEMALE ENFRANCHISEMENTiii
A HISTORY
OF
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
AND ELECTIONEERING
IN THE OLD DAYS
SHOWING THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY
WARFARE AT THE HUSTINGS AND IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS FROM THE STUARTS TO QUEEN VICTORIA
CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL SQUIBS, LAMPOONS
PICTORIAL SATIRES, AND POPULAR CARICATURES OF THE TIME
BY
JOSEPH GREGO
AUTHOR OF “JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES”
“ROWLANDSON, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND WORKS,” ETC.
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1886
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“I think the Tories love to buy
‘Your Lordships’ and ‘Your Graces,’
By loathing common honesty,
And lauding commonplaces....
I think the Whigs are wicked Knaves
(And very like the Tories)
Who doubt that Britain rules the waves,
And ask the price of glories.”
‘Your Lordships’ and ‘Your Graces,’
By loathing common honesty,
And lauding commonplaces....
I think the Whigs are wicked Knaves
(And very like the Tories)
Who doubt that Britain rules the waves,
And ask the price of glories.”
“A friend to freedom and freeholders—yet
No less a friend to government—he held
That he exactly the just medium hit
’Twixt place and patriotism; albeit compell’d,
Such was his sovereign’s pleasure (though unfit,
He added modestly, when rebels rail’d),
...
No less a friend to government—he held
That he exactly the just medium hit
’Twixt place and patriotism; albeit compell’d,
Such was his sovereign’s pleasure (though unfit,
He added modestly, when rebels rail’d),
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