Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections. 1st [-3rd] SerLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1874 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... bill . They pro- strated themselves like slaves before the Crown . They crouched like menials , and bent uncovered , like vassals owing suit and service , before the Lords . They re- ceived wages from their constituents : like other ...
... bill . They pro- strated themselves like slaves before the Crown . They crouched like menials , and bent uncovered , like vassals owing suit and service , before the Lords . They re- ceived wages from their constituents : like other ...
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... bill to pass ? ' and laying his hand on Mon- tague's head , then on his knees , ' Get my bill passed by to - morrow , or else to - morrow this head of yours shall be off . ' The bill was passed on the morrow . To complete the ...
... bill to pass ? ' and laying his hand on Mon- tague's head , then on his knees , ' Get my bill passed by to - morrow , or else to - morrow this head of yours shall be off . ' The bill was passed on the morrow . To complete the ...
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... were to recognise the fact that the real sovereignty of England had departed from the Crown . During the Reform Bill agitation of 1831 , an enthusiastically loyal orator1 at Nottingham called on the lieges to ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 5.
... were to recognise the fact that the real sovereignty of England had departed from the Crown . During the Reform Bill agitation of 1831 , an enthusiastically loyal orator1 at Nottingham called on the lieges to ITS HISTORY AND ELOQUENCE . 5.
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... Bill for dissolving his Majesty's marriage with 1 The late Nathaniel Goldsmid , an Oxonian and barrister of some note in his time , much esteemed by his friends . He was also re- ported to have declaimed against the heroes of the July ...
... Bill for dissolving his Majesty's marriage with 1 The late Nathaniel Goldsmid , an Oxonian and barrister of some note in his time , much esteemed by his friends . He was also re- ported to have declaimed against the heroes of the July ...
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... Bill for annulling the royal grants of forfeited property , and sought to force it intact through the Lords by coupling it with a money Bill . The Lords passed amendments : the Commons rejected them : the Lords passed them a second time ...
... Bill for annulling the royal grants of forfeited property , and sought to force it intact through the Lords by coupling it with a money Bill . The Lords passed amendments : the Commons rejected them : the Lords passed them a second time ...
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الصفحة 382 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
الصفحة 53 - Romanus sum,' so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
الصفحة 257 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
الصفحة 27 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
الصفحة 32 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies...
الصفحة 48 - I invoke the Genius of the Constitution. From the tapestry, that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this Noble Lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In vain did he defend the liberty, and establish the religion of Britain, against the tyranny of Rome, if these worse than Popish cruelties and Inquisitorial practices are endured among us.
الصفحة 65 - Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
الصفحة 390 - It seemed as if their mother Earth Had swallowed up her warlike birth. The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon, and plaid, and plumage fair — The next but swept a lone...
الصفحة 77 - 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.j The right hon.
الصفحة 11 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, 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 show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...