 | Howard Erskine-Hill - 1993 - Liczba stron: 132
...wealth in stocks, and supported a landed interest on the ground that (as Swift himself put it in 1721): 'the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom' (Correspondence, II. 373). Swift moved from the Whig to the Tory area of the political arena in 1709-10... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - Liczba stron: 252
...years old) of setting up a money'd Interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this,...advantage of the kingdom: If others had thought the same, Funds of Credit and South-sea Projects would neither have been felt nor heard of. (SP IX, p. 32) From... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - Liczba stron: 436
...he "adored" the wisdom of "that Gothic Institution" the annual parliament. The landed interests were "the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom," while the "moneyed" interest was responsible for disasters such as the South Sea Bubble. The thing... | |
 | Susan Glover - 2006 - Liczba stron: 240
...often identified as the Augustan spokesman for the orthodoxy of land-based political power, the view that "the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom."30 One does not have to look far in this early writing to find attacks on the "monied interest,"... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - Liczba stron: 660
...Kxaminer, were in keeping with Swift's opinion uttered ten years after the Act of 1710, that " there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this,...the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom3." While technically the law was stringently enforced,, it never restricted membership to the... | |
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I ever abominated that scheme of politics (now about thirty years old) of setting up a monied interest in opposition to the landed. For I conceived, there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, That the possessors of the soil are the... 
