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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... object , as explained in their Preface , has been attained . They have produced an amusing , useful , and interest- VOL . II . ll B 16 ing work ; nor is it well possible for any THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT: ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE.
... object , as explained in their Preface , has been attained . They have produced an amusing , useful , and interest- VOL . II . ll B 16 ing work ; nor is it well possible for any THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT: ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE.
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... object- ing to the ministerial policy in his hearing , he took him aside and bluntly asked , ' What do you want ? ' Next to Lord Castlereagh , the person who was most instrumental in bringing undue influence to bear upon the last Irish ...
... object- ing to the ministerial policy in his hearing , he took him aside and bluntly asked , ' What do you want ? ' Next to Lord Castlereagh , the person who was most instrumental in bringing undue influence to bear upon the last Irish ...
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... objects in view and were subject to the same influences . The course taken by the House of Lords in 1783 , when they threw out the India Bill , can hardly be considered an exception , for this was done by the express desire of the King ...
... objects in view and were subject to the same influences . The course taken by the House of Lords in 1783 , when they threw out the India Bill , can hardly be considered an exception , for this was done by the express desire of the King ...
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... object in taking a peerage was to cut up any further views of ambition by the roots . Brougham , in the Lords , after three or four exciting years , was like Samson with his hair cut . There is a letter from Charles Fox to the first ...
... object in taking a peerage was to cut up any further views of ambition by the roots . Brougham , in the Lords , after three or four exciting years , was like Samson with his hair cut . There is a letter from Charles Fox to the first ...
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... object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that Shaftesbury's ascendency was felt . He is never vehement or de- clamatory . He never appeals to the passions of his audience : he ...
... object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that Shaftesbury's ascendency was felt . He is never vehement or de- clamatory . He never appeals to the passions of his audience : he ...
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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.