The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, 2. köide,1. osa1882 |
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... declared , in a very bitter party mouth . Tavistock will be one of the towns speech , his unabated hostility to the new removed from Schedule B. I have desired Bill . He taunted the Ministers with hav- every information respecting that ...
... declared , in a very bitter party mouth . Tavistock will be one of the towns speech , his unabated hostility to the new removed from Schedule B. I have desired Bill . He taunted the Ministers with hav- every information respecting that ...
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... declared that , in his opinion , it last was Peel's , which , though remarkable , was even a better measure than the Bill was not good . ' Sir Denis , who was present , which the House of Lords had rejected , says , ' The attempt at a ...
... declared that , in his opinion , it last was Peel's , which , though remarkable , was even a better measure than the Bill was not good . ' Sir Denis , who was present , which the House of Lords had rejected , says , ' The attempt at a ...
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... declared that the leaders of the into office - ' I told you then , ' he said , ' that Opposition were unfit to be trusted with you were my Chancellor ; besides , after all , the charge of the Reform Bill . If , indeed , ' the office is ...
... declared that the leaders of the into office - ' I told you then , ' he said , ' that Opposition were unfit to be trusted with you were my Chancellor ; besides , after all , the charge of the Reform Bill . If , indeed , ' the office is ...
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... declared himself ' entirely Very little work is done . The workmen ignorant of the cause which had led to the walk ... declaring that the persons who had advised an efficient form . ' This frank avowal the king to reject the advice of ...
... declared himself ' entirely Very little work is done . The workmen ignorant of the cause which had led to the walk ... declaring that the persons who had advised an efficient form . ' This frank avowal the king to reject the advice of ...
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... declaring that the inhabitants were resolved not to pay taxes unless the Bill was passed un- mutilated . Not a few even ... declared itself in permanent session . It is a significant fact that the Unions received an immense increase to ...
... declaring that the inhabitants were resolved not to pay taxes unless the Bill was passed un- mutilated . Not a few even ... declared itself in permanent session . It is a significant fact that the Unions received an immense increase to ...
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Page 218 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 111 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 18 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean.
Page 197 - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light. To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
Page 21 - MY DEAR LORD, I am honoured with his Majesty's commands to acquaint your lordship that all difficulties to the arrangements in progress will be obviated by a declaration in the House to-night from a sufficient number of peers that, in consequence of the present state of affairs, they have come to the resolution of dropping their further opposition to the Reform Bill, so that it may pass without delay, and as nearly as possible in its present shape.
Page 225 - Instead of being the ignorant man he pretends to be, before he meets the deputation of tallowchandlers in the morning, he sits up half the night talking with Thomas Young about melting and skimming, and then, though he has acquired knowledge enough to work off a whole vat of prime Leicester tallow, he pretends next morning not to know the difference between a dip and a mould. In the same way, when he has been employed in reading acts of parliament, he would persuade you that he has been reading Cleghorn...
Page 17 - Lords to atop 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...
Page 231 - ... In conclusion, we report to your Majesty that there prevails amongst the inhabitants of a great majority of the incorporated towns a general, and, in our opinion, a just dissatisfaction with their municipal institutions ; a distrust of the self-elected municipal councils, whose powers are subject to no popular control, and whose acts...
Page 102 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 162 - ... the Sublime Ottoman Porte the expense and inconvenience which might be occasioned to it by affording substantial aid, will not ask for that aid if circumstances should place the Sublime Porte under the obligation of furnishing it, the Sublime Ottoman Porte, in place of the aid which it is bound to furnish in case of need, according to the principle of reciprocity of the Patent Treaty, shall confine its action in favour of the Imperial Court of Russia to closing the Strait of the Dardanelles,...