An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time : with Notices of Eminent Parliamentary Men, and Examples of Their OratoryH. Cox, 1880 - 530 pages |
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... once comprehensive and readily accessible . An attempt was made some years back , by two fellow - workers who had experienced the want , to supply it , by bringing together , in anecdotal form , " some of the more striking facts in the ...
... once comprehensive and readily accessible . An attempt was made some years back , by two fellow - workers who had experienced the want , to supply it , by bringing together , in anecdotal form , " some of the more striking facts in the ...
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... once popular , and regulated by law and order , while Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent . To any of these colonial Assemblies might probably be applied a remark recently made respecting one of them : " It is ...
... once popular , and regulated by law and order , while Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent . To any of these colonial Assemblies might probably be applied a remark recently made respecting one of them : " It is ...
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... once obliged to adjourn , because the royal commissioner ( Middleton ) was too intoxicated to behave properly in the chair . " The Longest , or Pensionary Parliament . - This Parliament --sometimes called " the Long Parliament , " until ...
... once obliged to adjourn , because the royal commissioner ( Middleton ) was too intoxicated to behave properly in the chair . " The Longest , or Pensionary Parliament . - This Parliament --sometimes called " the Long Parliament , " until ...
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... once petitioned for the libera- tion of their Speaker , as without him they could not proceed , and also of another member who was incarcerated at the same time . The Duke of York's counsel , in the Lords , opposed the application ...
... once petitioned for the libera- tion of their Speaker , as without him they could not proceed , and also of another member who was incarcerated at the same time . The Duke of York's counsel , in the Lords , opposed the application ...
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... Once both met on the narrow bridge , and the question was who should go back , since both could not go on without danger . One sheep gave counsel that the sheep on the bridge should lie on their bellies , and let the bellwether go over ...
... Once both met on the narrow bridge , and the question was who should go back , since both could not go on without danger . One sheep gave counsel that the sheep on the bridge should lie on their bellies , and let the bellwether go over ...
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Page 201 - ... it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to...
Page 148 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 115 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 236 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 146 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious shew ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Page 280 - Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility.
Page 51 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 148 - I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 184 - If the King's servants will not permit a Constitutional question to be decided on according to the forms and on the principles of the Constitution, it must then be decided in some other manner. And rather than it should be given up, rather than the nation should surrender their birthright to a despotic Minister, I hope, my Lords, old as I am, I shall see the question brought to issue and fairly tried between the people and the Government.
Page 56 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction.