borough-monger

Updated: May 23, 2025

I say, hurrah for the Pope; I value no religion three halfpence, as I said before, but if I were to adopt any, it should be the Popish as it's called, because I conceives the Popish to be the grand enemy of the Church of England, of the beggarly aristocracy, and the borough-monger system, so I won't hear the Pope abused while I am by. Come, don't look fierce.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

He allows a pension of three hundred a year to Lord S . True; he was his man of business for twenty years, and before then S was rather a prudent fellow, and had fifteen thousand a year. He has helped on, too, many a clever young man, the best borough-monger you ever knew. He likes having friends in parliament.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - My Novel — Complete

He allows a pension of three hundred a year to Lord S . True; he was his man of business for twenty years, and before then S was rather a prudent fellow, and had fifteen thousand a year. He has helped on, too, many a clever young man, the best borough-monger you ever knew. He likes having friends in parliament.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - My Novel — Volume 10

I value no religion three halfpence, as I said before, but if I were to adopt any, it should be the Popish, as it's called, because I conceives the Popish to be the grand enemy of the Church of England, of the beggarly aristocracy, and the borough-monger system, so I won't hear the Pope abused while I am by. Come, don't look fierce.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Lord Fitz-Warene well understood how to avail himself of these occasions; it was astonishing how conscientious and scrupulous he became during Walcheren expeditions, Manchester massacres, Queen's trials. Every scrape of the government was a step in the ladder to the great borough-monger.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil, or the Two Nations

I say, hurrah for the Pope; I value no religion three halfpence, as I said before, but if I were to adopt any, it should be the Popish as it’s called, because I conceives the Popish to be the grand enemy of the Church of England, of the beggarly aristocracy, and the borough-monger system, so I won’t hear the Pope abused while I am by. Come, don’t look fierce.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Perceval brought in a bill to check the sale and brokerage of offices, nor did Castlereagh himself escape the charge of having procured the election of Lord Clancarty to parliament by the offer of an Indian writership to a borough-monger. A frank explanation saved him from censure, especially as it appeared that the offer had never taken effect.

George C. (George Charles) Brodrick - The Political History of England - Vol XI: From Addington's Administration to the close of William: IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

In 1861 J. W. Croker wrote to his patron, the great borough-monger Lord Hertford: "There can be no doubt that the Reform Bill is a stepping-stone in England to a republic, and in Ireland to separation. Both may happen without the Bill, but with it they are inevitable." Next year the Bill became law.

George William Erskine Russell - Prime Ministers and Some Others: A Book of Reminiscences

Lord Wharton took to Ireland Clayton to write him musical entertainments, and a train of parasites of quality. He was a great borough-monger, and is said at one critical time to have returned thirty members. He had no difficulty, therefore, in finding Addison a seat, and made him in that year, 1709, M.P. for Malmesbury.

Joseph Addison - The Spectator, Volume 1: Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays