The Derby Ministry: A Series of Cabinet PicturesG. Routledge & Company, 1858 - 264 páginas |
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... I have begun several times many things , and I have often succeeded at -last . I shall sit down now ; but the time will come when you will hear me . " It is , we repeat , a distinct prediction , a prediction of which we have long since ...
... I have begun several times many things , and I have often succeeded at -last . I shall sit down now ; but the time will come when you will hear me . " It is , we repeat , a distinct prediction , a prediction of which we have long since ...
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Página 73 - I do not fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more,— I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right...
Página 19 - That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign, and her Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety may be established among us for all generations.
Página 12 - ... heel of pastime; that he would giggle away the Great Charter, and decide by the method of tee-totum whether my Lords the Bishops should or should not retain their seats in the House of Lords. All this is the mere vanity of surprising, and making us believe...
Página 24 - In the reign of Queen Anne there was a sage and grave critic of the name of Dennis, who in his old age got it into his head that he wrote all the good plays that were acted at that time.
Página 184 - One after one the lords of time advance, — Here Stanley meets, — how Stanley scorns, the glance ! The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, — the Rupert of Debate ! Nor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still leaves all Eton in the boy ; — First in the class, and keenest in the ring, He saps like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring...
Página 60 - Such a system may break the spirit in ' another place,' and it may lower the tone in this ; ' another place ' may be drilled into a guard-room, and the House of Commons may be degraded into a vestry.
Página 73 - ... house, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Página 184 - Plants a sly bruiser on the nose of Bob; Decorous Bob, too friendly to reprove, Suggests fresh fighting in the next remove, And prompts his chum, in hopes the vein to cool, To the prim benches of the Upper School: Yet who not listens, with delighted smile, To the pure Saxon of that silver style ; In the clear style a heart as clear is seen, Prompt to the rash — revolting from the mean.