The Reform Bill for England and Wales, Examined Volume 1-12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1831 Excerpt: ... more able and competent individual would have brought forward similar propositions. However, they are now willingly left, waiting your Lordship's judgment, having nothing to recommend them, and asking no other recommendation, than that to which their intrinsic merits may seem to entitle them. I am, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient And very humble servant, ANGLICUS. THE EISiD. PRINTED BY MILLS, JOWETT, AND MILLS, nol.T-COUKT, FLEET-STREET. PROSPECT OF REFORM IN EUROPE. by FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, PUBLISHED AT BOSTON, N.A. JULY 1, 1831. THIRD EDITION. LONDON: O. RICH, 12, RED LION SQUARE, HOLBORN. AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. August, 1831. Prospect of Reform in Europe. It has become a trite remark, that we live in an age of most extraordinary events. It is true, that men are prone to magnify the importance of the events, with which they are themselves connected, either as witnesses or actors. But after all due allowance is made for this exaggeration, we cannot but feel that the history of the civilized world, since the year 1775, has been marked with the most wonderful incidents. How important these incidents are, in all their consequences, we cannot yet say. We behold already the developement of momentous events, drawn along by obvious connexion in the train of the great revolution, of which the first scenes were performed on this side of the Atlantic; but of which the subsequent acts, with fearful disregard of the unities of time and of place, have been brought out on other continents, in disconnected societies of men, and after the original actors had passed from the stage. Much more, of which we can have no conception, will no doubt follow, in its appointed time and place It is not strange that human sagacity is so often at fault in fores...