After a most ingenious speech, he concluded by moving, that the present meeting was of opinion, that the right of voting for Members of Parliament could be safely and practicably extended only to householders paying direct taxes to Church and State, and that it should be recommended to the Reformers throughout the country to petition for a Reform of the Commons' House of Parliament, upon the plan of householder suffrage.
"Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3"
Henry Hunt
One would have thought the natural method in a plan of reformation would be, to take the present existing estimates as they stand; and then to show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from them.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Yet these were very practicably compatible with the alternations of importance in being driven about in her father's barouche, taking Aggie Townsend up on the road, and "setting her down at the small gray house."
"The Other Girls"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney