Biographical studies, ed. by R.H. Hutton1881 |
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... minister to shoot as a compensation . Lord Eldon lived under the belief that he had nearly been the victim himself , and told some story of a borrowed hat and an assistant's greatcoat to which he ascribed his preservation . The whole ...
... minister to shoot as a compensation . Lord Eldon lived under the belief that he had nearly been the victim himself , and told some story of a borrowed hat and an assistant's greatcoat to which he ascribed his preservation . The whole ...
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... Minister be able to judge of the course of policy with regard to India , unless he be cognisant of all the current important correspondence ? In the case of Ire- land and the Home Department it is the same . Then the Prime Minister has ...
... Minister be able to judge of the course of policy with regard to India , unless he be cognisant of all the current important correspondence ? In the case of Ire- land and the Home Department it is the same . Then the Prime Minister has ...
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... minister in the Hebrides , than from a statesman who , ever since he was one - and - twenty , had been a distinguished debater in the House of Commons . ' But it may well be doubted whether there is not in the same pursuit a deeper evil ...
... minister in the Hebrides , than from a statesman who , ever since he was one - and - twenty , had been a distinguished debater in the House of Commons . ' But it may well be doubted whether there is not in the same pursuit a deeper evil ...
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... minister , I asked him often in the course of many years for situations for my sons , which situations were vacant and in his immediate gift . I sub- join three letters which I received from him on these subjects ; they were written ...
... minister , I asked him often in the course of many years for situations for my sons , which situations were vacant and in his immediate gift . I sub- join three letters which I received from him on these subjects ; they were written ...
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... minister , involves him in nothing but embar- Ever affectionately yours , rassment . ROBERT PEEL . I publish one more letter of the same kind , because all these letters exhibit the character of the writer , and contain matters of some ...
... minister , involves him in nothing but embar- Ever affectionately yours , rassment . ROBERT PEEL . I publish one more letter of the same kind , because all these letters exhibit the character of the writer , and contain matters of some ...
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الصفحة 100 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
الصفحة 250 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
الصفحة 137 - in the room of the Right Honourable William Pitt, who, since his election, has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
الصفحة 38 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
الصفحة 298 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
الصفحة 75 - I WAITED for the train at Coventry ; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires ; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this : — Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past; not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well And loathed to see them...
الصفحة 274 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
الصفحة 249 - Upon this subject he followed the plan that seems to be suggested by Montesquieu; endeavouring to trace the gradual progress of jurisprudence, both public and private, from the rudest to the most refined ages, and to point out the effects of those arts which contribute to subsistence, and to the accumulation of property, in producing correspondent improvements or alterations in law and government.
الصفحة 284 - The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans, or the English, which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created.