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Page 5 - No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
Page 21 - We are compelled to accompany that acceptance with the sorrowful declaration that the differences, not of a temporary or casual nature merely, but differences of conviction, differences of prepossession, differences of mental habit, and differences of fundamental tendency, between the House of Lords and the House of Commons, appear to have reached a development in the present year such as to create a state of things of which we are compelled to say that, in our judgment, it cannot continue. Sir,...
Page 29 - What then was the duty of an English minister ? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That was the Irish question in its integrity...
Page 25 - It is not with the House of Commons to pronounce a judgment on this subject. The House of Commons is itself a party in the case. I have no difficulty in pronouncing a judgment on behalf of the Ministry in the issues that have been raised throughout this year between the two Houses. We take frankly, fully, and finally the side of the House of Commons.
Page 21 - The issue which is raised between a deliberative assembly, elected by the votes of more than six million people, and a deliberative assembly occupied by many men of virtue, by many men of talent, of course with considerable diversities and varieties, is a controversy which, when once raised, must go forward to an issue.
Page 21 - It has been postponed in many cases to a considerable degree by that discretion, circumspection, and reserve in the use of enormous privileges which the House of Lords on various occasions in my recollection, in the time of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Aberdeen and other periods, have shown. But I am afraid, Sir, that the epoch, the age of that reserve and circumspection may have gone by. I will not abandon all hope of it, but I must say of the present — I do not like to say that the situation...
Page 8 - Calendar as issued. (d) At the end of the year the Pamphlets and Leaflets of the year, indexed, on superior paper, and specially bound for Subscribers in half-cloth.
Page 30 - With reference, however, to that passage which has been quoted from a speech made by me. I may remark that it appeared to me at the time I made it that nobody listened to it. It seemed to me that I was pouring water upon sand, but it seems now that the water came from a golden goblet.
Page 25 - I feel that in some way or other a solution will have to be found for this tremendous contrariety and incessant conflict upon matters of high principle and profound importance between the representatives of the people and those who fill a nominated chamber.
Page 22 - Houses. We take frankly, fully, and finally the side of the House of Commons. The House of Commons could not be a final judge in its own case, and I am by no means anxious...