The British Parliament ... The pearls and mock pearls of history. Vicissitudes of families ... England and France ... Lady Palmerston. Lord Lansdowne. Lord Dalling and Bulwer. Whist and whist-playersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 |
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... John Trevor , Speaker and First Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1690 , Burnet says : Being a Tory in principle , he undertook to manage that party , provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes : and ...
... John Trevor , Speaker and First Commissioner of the Great Seal in 1690 , Burnet says : Being a Tory in principle , he undertook to manage that party , provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes : and ...
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... John , the Solicitor - General , said : ' It is true , we give law to hares and deer , for they are beasts of chase , but it was never accounted either cruel or unfair to VOL . II . D destroy foxes or wolves wherever they can be found ...
... John , the Solicitor - General , said : ' It is true , we give law to hares and deer , for they are beasts of chase , but it was never accounted either cruel or unfair to VOL . II . D destroy foxes or wolves wherever they can be found ...
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... John Somers.1 6 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
... John Somers.1 6 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
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... John , who was surnamed Sans Terre , and was by his father , King Henry II . , made Lord of Ireland , which grant was confirmed by the Pope , who sent him a crown of peacocks ' feathers in derision of his power and the poverty of his ...
... John , who was surnamed Sans Terre , and was by his father , King Henry II . , made Lord of Ireland , which grant was confirmed by the Pope , who sent him a crown of peacocks ' feathers in derision of his power and the poverty of his ...
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... John Somers.1 6 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
... John Somers.1 6 We are compelled to take the oratorical reputation of each of them upon trust . Lord Campbell says of Somers , that although he sat in Parliament from the beginning of the year 1689 till his death , not much short of ...
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Page 101 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 4 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Page 54 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Page 441 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 55 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 277 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
Page 98 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 68 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 438 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.
Page 99 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.