Gentlemen of the House of Commons, Volume 2Hurst, and Blackett, limited, 1902 - Constitutional history |
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Page 63 - OF a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while...
Page 8 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 290 - It is not to be supposed that even a single instance of the kind would be left unimproved by the wits at Brooks's. The Morning Chronicle came out with a long array of epigrams upon this tempting subject. Here is one in which the Prime Minister is supposed to address his colleague — " I cannot see the Speaker, Hal ; can you?" — " Not see the Speaker? — hang it, I see two !" In July of this year we find Mr. Pitt give his mother an account, probably far too favourable, of his health. " Holwood,...
Page 156 - THE Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday : the queen died on Sunday. What a world is this and how does Fortune banter us ! John Barber tells me, you have set your face toward Ireland.
Page 67 - He could not be for bishops, unless they would derive their power from the king, and not vaunt themselves to be Jure Divino.
Page 99 - This country," says the Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant in 1675, "has been perpetually rent and torn, since his Majesty's restoration. I can compare it to nothing better than the flinging the reward on the death of a deer among the pack of hounds — where every one pulls and tears where he can for himself.
Page 8 - That it was not yet gone so far, but all things might be restored again ; and that, if the soldiers were commanded out of the House, and the mace returned, the public affairs might go on in their course." Cromwell rejected this advice, and called Allen to account for some hundred thousand pounds which, as Treasurer of the army, he had embezzled.
Page 210 - ... ample matter, but a little indiscreetly on Fox, with the highest encomiums on his friend, the Lord Advocate, whose speech of that day he pronounced the finest he had ever heard ; a proof of which he said was, that it was the speech which had most galled the Opposition. Sheridan replied wittily, that if those speeches were the best which gave most offence, Rigby himself was the Demosthenes of the House. It was very true — nobody was so apt to provoke by indiscreet violence.
Page 204 - I was at the temple — on the American war, on the King's speech in 1770, and on the privilege of Parliament. He was very great, and very odd. He spoke in a style of conversation, not however what I expected ; it was not a speech, for he never came with a prepared harangue ; his style was not regular oratory, like Cicero, or Demosthenes, but it was very fine, and very elevated, and...
Page 264 - ... noble lord himself, to pause before he again presses it upon the country. If, however, he shall persevere — and if his perseverance shall be successful — and if the results of that success shall be such as I cannot help apprehending — his be the triumph to have precipitated those results — be mine the consolation that to the utmost, and the latest of my power, I have opposed them.