Political Pamphlets
by George Saintsbury
★★★★★No ratings yet
Language: English
Sign in to rate this book.
Sign in to shelve this book.
About this eBook
- Editor
- Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933
- Credits
- Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Cori Samuel and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Great Britain -- Politics and government
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13943
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13943
- Release Date
- November 3, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.POLITICAL PAMPHLETS — Edited By
- 2.GEORGE SAINTSBURY — INTRODUCTION — I.—'LETTER TO A DISSENTER' — BY GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX — A LETTER TO A DISSENTER, UPON OCCASION OF HIS MAJESTY'S LATE GRACIOUS DECLARATION OF INDULGENCE — II.—'THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS' — BY DANIEL DEFOE — III.—THE 'DRAPIER'S LETTERS' — BY JONATHAN SWIFT — I — TO THE TRADESMEN, SHOP-KEEPERS, FARMERS, AND COMMON-PEOPLE IN GENERAL, OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND; CONCERNING THE BRASS HALF-PENCE COINED BY MR. WOOD. — II. — A LETTER TO MR. HARDING THE PRINTER, UPON OCCASION OF A PARAGRAPH IN HIS NEWS-PAPER OF AUGUST 1, 1724, RELATING TO MR. WOOD'S HALF-PENCE. — IV.—'SECOND LETTER ON A REGICIDE PEACE' — BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE — V.—'PETER PLYMLEY'S LETTERS' — BY SYDNEY SMITH — LETTER II. — LETTER VI. — LETTER VII. — LETTER IX. — VI.—'LETTER TO THE JOURNEYMEN AND LABOURERS OF ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. LETTER TO JACK HARROW.' — BY WILLIAM COBBETT — LETTER TO THE JOURNEYMEN AND LABOURERS OF ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, ON THE CAUSE OF THEIR PRESENT MISERIES; ON THE MEASURES WHICH HAVE PRODUCED THAT CAUSE; ON THE REMEDIES WHICH SOME FOOLISH AND SOME CRUEL AND INSOLENT MEN HAVE PROPOSED; AND ON THE LINE OF CONDUCT WHICH JOURNEYMEN AND LABOURERS OUGHT TO PURSUE, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN EFFECTUAL RELIEF, AND TO ASSIST IN PROMOTING THE TRANQUILLITY AND RESTORING THE HAPPINESS OF THEIR COUNTRY. — TO JACK HARROW, AN ENGLISH LABOURER — On the new Cheat which is now on foot, and which goes under the name of Savings Banks — VII.—'THE LETTERS OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER' — BY SIR WALTER SCOTT — A LETTER ON THE PROPOSED CHANGE OF CURRENCY — POSTSCRIPT — NOTES
Community reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet.