"Chartist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as with an abstracted air he filled his glass, and sipping the wine, leant back in his chair. "The son of Walter Gerard! A chartist delegate! The best blood in England! What would I ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... public meeting, in the course of a speech about the "five points" of the charter, exclaimed, "Gentlemen, is not one man as good as another?"—"Uv course he is," shouted an excited Irish chartist, ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... that Sir Charles Dilke could date was 'of April 10th, 1848, when the Chartist meeting led to military preparations, during which I' (a boy in his fifth year) 'saw the Duke of Wellington riding through the street, attended by his staff, but all in plain clothes.' In 1850 'No Popery chalked on the walls attracted my attention, but failed to excite ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn |
