The British Parliament ... The pearls and mock pearls of history. Vicissitudes of families ... England and France ... Lady Palmerston. Lord Lansdowne. Lord Dalling and Bulwer. Whist and whist-playersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 |
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... Third Estate is rendered more glaring by the means which More's ready wit suggested for ex- tricating them from the dilemma . Queen Elizabeth expressly prohibited Parliament from meddling with State matters or ecclesiastical causes ...
... Third Estate is rendered more glaring by the means which More's ready wit suggested for ex- tricating them from the dilemma . Queen Elizabeth expressly prohibited Parliament from meddling with State matters or ecclesiastical causes ...
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... third . Of the first of these triumvirates , we can say little or nothing that has not been said already and very recently . Almost the only question touching them that has not been exhaustively treated , is this : will they bear a ...
... third . Of the first of these triumvirates , we can say little or nothing that has not been said already and very recently . Almost the only question touching them that has not been exhaustively treated , is this : will they bear a ...
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... third reading of the Corn - Law Bill that he came after the debate to Lord Lincoln ( the late Duke of Newcastle ) at White- hall Place , and insisted on his carrying a hostile message to Mr. Disraeli . On Lord Lincoln's positive refusal ...
... third reading of the Corn - Law Bill that he came after the debate to Lord Lincoln ( the late Duke of Newcastle ) at White- hall Place , and insisted on his carrying a hostile message to Mr. Disraeli . On Lord Lincoln's positive refusal ...
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... third of five sons ; that he was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates , an eminent surgeon of London ; that , when he set up on his own account , he took part of a small house in the Old Jewry ; then removed to Fetter Lane , and ...
... third of five sons ; that he was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates , an eminent surgeon of London ; that , when he set up on his own account , he took part of a small house in the Old Jewry ; then removed to Fetter Lane , and ...
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... third part of " Henry VI . " : " Et tu Brute ? Wilt thou stab Cæsar too ? " " The history of modern Europe is susceptible of the same threefold division as that of Greece and Rome . It comprises the fabulous , the semi - fabulous , and ...
... third part of " Henry VI . " : " Et tu Brute ? Wilt thou stab Cæsar too ? " " The history of modern Europe is susceptible of the same threefold division as that of Greece and Rome . It comprises the fabulous , the semi - fabulous , and ...
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Página 103 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 4 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
Página 56 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Página 443 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 57 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Página 279 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
Página 100 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Página 70 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 440 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.
Página 101 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.