 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1802 - 550 pages
...juftices of Middlefcx were generally the fcum of the earth; carpenters,.brick-makers, and fhoe-makers; fome of whom were .notorioufly men of fuch infamous...the popular meeting on the 6th of April, as a moft refpectable one, and faid the Dukes of Devonfhire and Portland, and other diftinguifhed perfonages,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...t'i? earth ; carpenters, brick-makers, ami shoe-makers ; sonic of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters, that they were unworthy of any employ whatever ; and others so ignorant, that they could scarcely write their own naraet. Mr. Burke described the popular meeting... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb - County government - 1906 - 738 pages
...of the earth — carpenters, brickmakers, and shoemakers ; some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters that they were unworthy of any employ whatever, and others so ignorant that they could scarcely write their own names." 8 But whether the motive was political... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - Drainage - 1922 - 548 pages
...of the earth — carpenters, brickmakers and shoemakers ; some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters that they were unworthy of any employ whatever, and others so ignorant that they could scarcely write their own names." 4 Thus we find, up and down the 1 Pamphlet... | |
 | Francis Place - Biography & Autobiography - 1972 - 362 pages
...scum of the earth, carpenters, brick-makers and shoe-makers, some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters, that they were unworthy of any employ whatever, and others so ignorant that they could scarcly write their names. Mr Rigby defended the Middlesex Magistrates,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Social Science - 1988 - 466 pages
...of the earth — carpenters, brickmakers, and shoemakers; some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters that they were unworthy of any employ whatever, and others so ignorant that they could scarcely write their own names.'7 Fielding's most famous predecessor, Sir... | |
 | Hal Gladfelder - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 308 pages
...thirty years later: "carpenters, brickmakers, and shoemakers; some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters that they were unworthy of any employ whatever, and others so ignorant that they could scarcely write their own names."1 Through his anti-Jacobite journalism... | |
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The Justices of Middlesex," said Burke without contradiction in 1780, "were generally the scum of the earth — carpenters, brickmakers, and shoemakers ; some of whom were notoriously men of such infamous characters that they were unworthy of any employ... 