 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...  Swiftiana ... - Page 46edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1912 - 508 pages
...moneyed interest in opposition to the landed ; 1 for I conceived, there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, that the possessors of the soil...way, funds of credit and South Sea projects would never have been felt nor heard of. I could never discover the necessity of suspending any law upon... | |
 | Philip Arnold Gibbons - Representative government and representation - 1914 - 64 pages
...was only transient and imaginary ; and later, ' there could not be a truer maxim in our government that the possessors of the soil are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom.' It is now time to consider a theory of political representation which, during the period under consideration,... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1922 - 622 pages
...Sir W. Windham (ed. 1753), p. 22. one of those " possessors of the soil," who, according to Swift, " are the best judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom " ; for Tory legislation under Anne excluded the yeoman, as well as the mere merchant, from the right... | |
 | Howard Erskine-Hill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 132 pages
...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 - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...money'd 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...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 436 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 240 pages
...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,"... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - English literature - 1926 - 376 pages
...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...judges of what is for the advantage of the kingdom." To state that Swift's enthusiasm for the Tories was fostered if not inspired by the benefits derived... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - 660 pages
...Swift's opinion uttered ten years after the Act of 1710, that " there could not be a truer maxim in our government than this, that the possessors of the soil...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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