A History of Modern England, Volume 3Macmillan, 1905 - Great Britain |
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... never prevailed in England . No Secretary of State possesses as such any re- strictive or coercive power . He can interfere with the employments of private persons only when some statute gives him authority to do so , and in 1865 such ...
... never prevailed in England . No Secretary of State possesses as such any re- strictive or coercive power . He can interfere with the employments of private persons only when some statute gives him authority to do so , and in 1865 such ...
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... never crossed swords with a more formidable antagonist . In many respects the combatants were well matched . Lowe and Both were Oxford men and trained logicians . Both were classical scholars , with Virgil in particular at their fingers ...
... never crossed swords with a more formidable antagonist . In many respects the combatants were well matched . Lowe and Both were Oxford men and trained logicians . Both were classical scholars , with Virgil in particular at their fingers ...
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... never more proudly sensitive than in 1866 . It had indeed reached the summit of its power . From its thraldom to the House of Lords it was emancipated in 1832. The mass of the people were still without votes , and the constituencies ...
... never more proudly sensitive than in 1866 . It had indeed reached the summit of its power . From its thraldom to the House of Lords it was emancipated in 1832. The mass of the people were still without votes , and the constituencies ...
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... Never had it been more excited . Never had it been so crowded . Six hundred and thirty - one Members being pre- sent , the Government were saved from defeat by five votes alone . No wonder the Conservatives cheered themselves hoarse ...
... Never had it been more excited . Never had it been so crowded . Six hundred and thirty - one Members being pre- sent , the Government were saved from defeat by five votes alone . No wonder the Conservatives cheered themselves hoarse ...
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... too impetuous , and though never intentionally dis- courteous , he did not make sufficient allowance for Defeat of the Govern- ment , June 19 . Mr. the slowness of ordinary minds . With the country 1866 38 HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND.
... too impetuous , and though never intentionally dis- courteous , he did not make sufficient allowance for Defeat of the Govern- ment , June 19 . Mr. the slowness of ordinary minds . With the country 1866 38 HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND.
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Page 161 - Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, 'ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Page 257 - Yet it is quite evident that the effect of such doctrine, and of any proceeding which, with or without avowal, is founded upon it, is to bring the entire authority and efficacy of treaties under the discretionary control of each one of the Powers who may have signed them ; the result of which would be the entire destruction of treaties in their essence.
Page 32 - You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. The great social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty, and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impede or disturb— those great social forces are against you : they are marshalled on our side...
Page 354 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Page 23 - When that information is complete the attention of parliament will be called to the result thus obtained, with a view to such improvements in the laws which regulate the right of voting in the election of members of the House of Commons as may tend to strengthen our free institutions and conduce to the public welfare.
Page 299 - As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.
Page 32 - ... this fight, though perhaps at some moment it may droop over our sinking heads, yet it soon again will float in the eye of Heaven, and it will be borne by the firm hands of the united people of the three kingdoms, perhaps not to an easy, but to a certain and to a not far distant victory.
Page 26 - Gentlemen, we may hope to see for the first time in Parliament a party perfectly harmonious and distinguished by mutual and unbroken trust. But there is one difficulty which it is impossible to remove. This party of two reminds me of the Scotch terrier, which was so covered with hair that you could not tell which was the head and which was the tail of it.
Page 415 - ... no one can become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another ; and when she has equally repudiated modern thought and ancient history.
Page 31 - I was bred under the shadow of the great name of Canning, every influence connected with that name governed the politics of my childhood and of my youth ; with Canning I rejoiced in the removal of religious disabilities, and in the character which he gave to our policy abroad ; with Canning I rejoiced in the opening...