Resolutions were now proposed and passed, which exposed the glaring injustice of paying away enormous sums of the public money to sinecure placemen and unworthy pensioners, &c.
Here, then, we have a proof, an experimental proof, of the practicability of conducting a government without giving placemen seats in the Legislature.
Many Tory country gentlemen, who had looked on Seymour as their leader in the war against placemen and Dutchmen, were moved to indignation by learning that he had become a courtier.
The Tories hooted the twoplacemen who were raising great estates out of the plunder of the poor overburdened nation.
One was a law excluding placemen from the House of Commons.
The exclusion of pensioners & placemen in Engl^d is founded on a consideration not existing here.
A bill of the same gentleman to limit the number of placemen in the house had so far worse success, that it did not reach the Serbonian bog.
Exclusion of placemen and pensioners from parliament.
No check was put on the number or quality of placemen in the lower house.
I feel not the least alarm-- No placemen ever dare do me harm; For though they vote her and me a bore, They love their own heads, and their places more.
All placemen who had voted against the peace were dismissed.
During the war little was achieved, though a revival of the old complaints about placemen in parliament was among the first symptoms of the rising sentiment.
His Radical friends were denouncing placemen and jobbery, and Cobbett began to perceive what was at the bottom of the evil.
I saw no placemen and pensioners, riding the people under foot.
Therefore for all these Reasons, I must insist, that Courtiers and Placemen ought to be excepted against, as being not sufficiently unbiassed, or disinterested to determine impartially on the present Subject.
Neither from elections thus conducted, nor from rotten Borough Addressers, nor from County-meetings, promoted by Placemenand Pensioners, can the sense of the nation be known.
Still it is unquestionable that Eldon's Cabinet dinners were suitably expensive; and that he never grudged his choicest port to the old attorneys and subordinate placemen who were his obsequious companions towards the close of his career.
To punish the masters for their delinquencies was not enough; greater sacrifices than a few comparatively obscure placemenwere demanded by the suitors and wards whose money had been squandered by the fraudulent trustees.
While those placemen and pensioners never can work; or, at least, it is clear that they never intend to do it.
But the complaints of these persons against you are the more unreasonable, because they say not a word against the sums paid to sinecure placemen and pensioners.
They do not propose, far from it, to check the breeding of sinecure placemen and pensioners, who are supported in part by the taxes which you help to pay.
But I should be glad to know how the sinecure placemen and lady pensioners have assisted to create food and raiment, or the means of producing them.
By another wise measure placemen were removed from the Assembly; that is to say, permanent officials, such as judges and registrars, could not hold their positions and be members of parliament.
That we observe the names of all those Placemen and Pensioners voting against Mr. Wardle's motion.
They do not purpose--far from it--to check the breeding of sinecure placemen and pensioners, who are supported in part by the taxes which you help to pay.
Artificers, herdsmen, cavaliers, priests, laborers, and placemen made up the motley groups which were seen on all sides.
He then intimates that more care should be exercised in the selection of placemen sent to the colony, for the enterprise had suffered already from unfitness in such matters.
Before ever I knew the court, placemen were not more settled in their posts than since.
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