The Passing of the Great Reform BillLongmans, Green, 1914 - 454 pàgines |
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April aristocracy Attwood ballot believed Birmingham boroughs Brougham Brougham Memoirs Burdett Cabinet Canningites Cobbett Committee considered Constitution Correspondence create peers Croker Papers Crown declared Despatches disfranchisement Duke of Wellington Duke's Durham election England excitement favour feeling Francis Place Government Graham Greville Memoirs Hansard 3rd series held Hobhouse Holland hope House of Commons House of Lords Howick Papers influence January King King's labour Lambton Papers Lansdowne leaders letter London Lord Grey Lord Grey's Lord John Russell Lyndhurst Manchester Manchester Guardian March measure meeting Melbourne ment ministers ministry moderate Morning Chronicle National National Political Union never November October opinion Opposition organised Palmerston Parliament Parliamentary Reform party passed Peel petition Pitt Place pledge Political Union popular principles proposed question Radicals Recollections Reform Bill refused revolution riots rotten boroughs second reading society speech tion Tories towns viii vote wages Wharncliffe Whigs wrote
Passatges populars
Pàgina 298 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Pàgina 104 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Pàgina 2 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Pàgina 14 - The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract.
Pàgina 264 - There can be no doubt that the middle rank, which gives to science, to art and to legislation itself, their most distinguished ornaments, the chief source of all that has exalted and refined human nature...
Pàgina 14 - Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
Pàgina 283 - Grave — intelligent — rational — fond of thinking for themselves — they consider a subject long before they make up their minds on it; and the opinions they are thus slow to form, they are not swift to abandon.
Pàgina 205 - We set up a shout that you might have heard to Charing Cross, waving our hats, stamping against the floor, and clapping our hands. The tellers scarcely got through the crowd; for the House was thronged up to the table, and all the floor was fluctuating with heads like the pit of a theatre. But you might have heard a pin drop as Duncannon read the members. Then again the shouts broke out, and many of us shed tears.
Pàgina 257 - There is nothing so revolutionary, because there is nothing so unnatural and so convulsive to society as the strain to keep things fixed, when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress ; and the cause of all the evils of the world may be traced to that natural but most deadly error of human indolence and corruption, that our business is to preserve and not to improve.
Pàgina 283 - I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure. By all you hold most dear, — by all the ties that bind every one of us to our common order, and our common country, I solemnly adjure you, — I warn you, — I implore you, — yea, on my bended knees, I supplicate you, —reject not this bill ! X.— THE LOSS OF THE ARCTIC.