History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an Introduction 1800 to 1815, Volume 2Walker, Wise,, 1865 - Great Britain |
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... Reform . Writings of Cobbett . Hampden Clubs . Spenceans .. Address of the City . 45 Outrage on the Prince Regent .... 119 • Alarm 120 47 50 Reports of Secret Committees ... 121 ... March of the Blanketeers . 123 53 • • 54 Derby ...
... Reform . Writings of Cobbett . Hampden Clubs . Spenceans .. Address of the City . 45 Outrage on the Prince Regent .... 119 • Alarm 120 47 50 Reports of Secret Committees ... 121 ... March of the Blanketeers . 123 53 • • 54 Derby ...
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... Reform Agitation .. 219 Catholic Claims . 269 Ashantee War . 272 Burmese War 273 Oregon 273 Aliens 278 Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson .. 364 The Debt and Taxation .. 279 Commercial Policy . 280 Spitalfields and Navigation Acts .. 376 ...
... Reform Agitation .. 219 Catholic Claims . 269 Ashantee War . 272 Burmese War 273 Oregon 273 Aliens 278 Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson .. 364 The Debt and Taxation .. 279 Commercial Policy . 280 Spitalfields and Navigation Acts .. 376 ...
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... Reform .. Government moves for Inquiry Report of Commissioners . 397 Mr. O'Connell .. 453 402 455 • • 456 • · • 456 • • 405 406 458 459 461 .. 462 • • • 464 ·· 467 • 413 Lord Eldon 468 • 414 Bill proposed 468 • 415 Jurors in India . 469 ...
... Reform .. Government moves for Inquiry Report of Commissioners . 397 Mr. O'Connell .. 453 402 455 • • 456 • · • 456 • • 405 406 458 459 461 .. 462 • • • 464 ·· 467 • 413 Lord Eldon 468 • 414 Bill proposed 468 • 415 Jurors in India . 469 ...
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... reform of our hateful and inoperative penal laws , he will do what the most accomplished and versatile debater would have left undone . He will persevere , as he has persevered , amidst neglect , calumny , the frowns of power , the ...
... reform of our hateful and inoperative penal laws , he will do what the most accomplished and versatile debater would have left undone . He will persevere , as he has persevered , amidst neglect , calumny , the frowns of power , the ...
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... reform , was carried . In the House of Lords a motion of Earl Grosvenor , " that a committee be ap- pointed to consider what places and offices may be abolished , consistent with the public safety , " was negatived by a large majority ...
... reform , was carried . In the House of Lords a motion of Earl Grosvenor , " that a committee be ap- pointed to consider what places and offices may be abolished , consistent with the public safety , " was negatived by a large majority ...
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Page 186 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression.
Page 341 - I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 336 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent...
Page 439 - That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
Page 2 - The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed innocence from heaven descend.
Page 138 - They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin...
Page 384 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 436 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II. ; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 253 - ... whilst over the whole field, were strewed caps, bonnets, hats, shawls, and shoes, and other parts of male and female dress; trampled, torn, and bloody. The yeomanry had dismounted, — some were easing their horses...
Page 98 - Egypt for badness: and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.