“It is agreed to by all really disinterested persons, that the government of England—not any individual government, but the general system—is one mass of immorality in practice, whatever it may be in theory. The whole working is founded on a system of conventional hypocrisy from first to last. The general modes of doing business are … Continue reading English government summarised
Tag: Nineteenth century
A Radical Journalist on Teachers in the early Nineteenth Century
The Examiner was among the greatest Radical newspapers published in England during the early nineteenth century; and its best writer was Albany Fonblanque, whose articles mixed a nimble wit with the most biting and impressive political analysis. In one article from 1827 he addressed the fate of teachers; and for a text of nearly two … Continue reading A Radical Journalist on Teachers in the early Nineteenth Century
Notes in the Margins of the Days 