So fully was this so, that the class to whom the great body of the ten-pound householders belonged--the lower middle class--was above all classes the one most hardly treated in the imposition of the taxes.
He highlights the financial burdens placed on the lower middle class, who were disproportionately affected by taxation.
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But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.
The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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