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... hands , to declare on whom it had fallen , and if , after that , a poll was demanded , to fix the day for such poll . I remember at this nomination rather an amusing incident in a small way . The show of hands was in my favour ...
... hands , to declare on whom it had fallen , and if , after that , a poll was demanded , to fix the day for such poll . I remember at this nomination rather an amusing incident in a small way . The show of hands was in my favour ...
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... hands , they would drop a sufficient number of potatoes to enable him to plant much of his land . ' One of the old Cambridge stories which I have heard about him is that when an undergraduate he was summoned before one of the University ...
... hands , they would drop a sufficient number of potatoes to enable him to plant much of his land . ' One of the old Cambridge stories which I have heard about him is that when an undergraduate he was summoned before one of the University ...
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... hand . On the 28th February , Disraeli unfolded the ministerial plan . It was a fanciful performance . The Government , said the Chancellor of the Exchequer , proposed , not to alter the limits of the franchise , but to introduce into ...
... hand . On the 28th February , Disraeli unfolded the ministerial plan . It was a fanciful performance . The Government , said the Chancellor of the Exchequer , proposed , not to alter the limits of the franchise , but to introduce into ...
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... hand , and gave Lord John a slight help up . This , I suppose , was held to indicate unity . The meeting passed off well enough - a little grumbling ( there could not be a Liberal meeting without some grumbling ) , but a general ...
... hand , and gave Lord John a slight help up . This , I suppose , was held to indicate unity . The meeting passed off well enough - a little grumbling ( there could not be a Liberal meeting without some grumbling ) , but a general ...
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... hand , that when Palmerston was trying to get him into the Government , and meeting all Cobden's objections in a light and airy way - Cobden at length said : " But , my Lord , I am in earnest . " That closed the conversation ...
... hand , that when Palmerston was trying to get him into the Government , and meeting all Cobden's objections in a light and airy way - Cobden at length said : " But , my Lord , I am in earnest . " That closed the conversation ...
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Page 180 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 67 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 134 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 56 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Page 56 - We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South ; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army ; they are making, it appears, a navy ; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation.
Page 86 - The Queen is most anxious to enlist every-one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Page 186 - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
Page 22 - ... a year. Lodgers, graduates, ministers of religion, solicitors, doctors, and schoolmasters were, under certain conditions, enfranchised, and the Government proposed to recognize the principle of identity of suffrage between the counties and towns. Two members of the Government promptly resigned rather than be parties to these proposals. Lord John Russell moved an amendment condemning interference with the franchise which enabled freeholders in boroughs to vote in counties, and demanding a wider...