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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... five hundred kings in the House of Commons ; they'll quickly tame you . ' When the Prince ( Charles I. ) and Buckingham were promoting the impeachment of the Earl of Middlesex , the canny old King told his son that he would live to have ...
... five hundred kings in the House of Commons ; they'll quickly tame you . ' When the Prince ( Charles I. ) and Buckingham were promoting the impeachment of the Earl of Middlesex , the canny old King told his son that he would live to have ...
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... five hundred members , including the episcopal bench and the representative peers ; yet the augmentation has hardly kept pace with the increase of wealth and population . The silken barons , who replaced the iron barons , were most of ...
... five hundred members , including the episcopal bench and the representative peers ; yet the augmentation has hardly kept pace with the increase of wealth and population . The silken barons , who replaced the iron barons , were most of ...
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... , 1830 ) , which caused his resignation , thirty Tories , headed by Mr. Bankes and Sir Charles Wetherell , voted in the majority . VOL . II . C Earl Stanhope , after enumerating thirty - five instances , ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 17.
... , 1830 ) , which caused his resignation , thirty Tories , headed by Mr. Bankes and Sir Charles Wetherell , voted in the majority . VOL . II . C Earl Stanhope , after enumerating thirty - five instances , ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 17.
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Abraham Hayward. Earl Stanhope , after enumerating thirty - five instances , remarks : These hereditary seats , combining in some degree the permanence of peerage with the popularity of elections - these bulwarks against any sudden and ...
Abraham Hayward. Earl Stanhope , after enumerating thirty - five instances , remarks : These hereditary seats , combining in some degree the permanence of peerage with the popularity of elections - these bulwarks against any sudden and ...
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... five shil- lings a head . In one of his powerful speeches against Parliamentary Reform , Mr. Lowe , after reading a list of sums allowed as legitimate expenses ( ranging from eight thousand pounds up to twenty - seven thousand ) , said ...
... five shil- lings a head . In one of his powerful speeches against Parliamentary Reform , Mr. Lowe , after reading a list of sums allowed as legitimate expenses ( ranging from eight thousand pounds up to twenty - seven thousand ) , said ...
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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.