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S3V0034P0_1781
The counsel, through the attorney, communicated with the prisoner, and all the circumstances were made known to him as to the character of the witnesses, and as to the prisoner's own position.
1830
null
673,273
S3V0343P0_28687
If we cannot raise the question of principle on the Second Reading, I give notice that we shall raise it probably at greater length on every available opportunity in Committee.
1890
1890-04-30
89,081
S3V0005P0_3445
He had presented petitions from all the great towns in Surrey, and could take it upon him to state, that the feeling of the people of wealth and intelligence of the county of Surrey was unanimous in favour of the principle and details of the Bill.
1830
null
142,347
S3V0186P0_6798
Gentleman the Member for South Lancashire (Mr. Gladstone), referring to my noble Friend behind me (Lord Henry Lennox), alleged, as I understood him, that it was improper to maintain a foreign squadron at so high a rate.
1860
null
716,925
S3V0151P0_12641
Their friends in the south seemed to have a horror of having the municipal body represented in these institutions.
1850
null
901,085
S3V0211P0_6835
Hence, some were urged to vote for the Bill on the ground that women were naturally Conservatives.
1870
null
317,135
S3V0214P0_2372
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1870
null
349,457
S3V0240P0_4904
He hoped nothing of the sort might occur now.
1870
null
953,235
S3V0156P0_1824
But the seventh clause, as originally drawn by the Committee of the other House of Parliament, provided that, unless there was any express provision to the contrary in the will or deed of endowment in favour of any particular creed, and provided there was usage of appointing trustees indiscriminately for twenty-five years, Dissenters would be eligible.
1860
null
1,824
S4V0054P0_3600
Friend we are in possession of the whole of the case, and are able to discuss with advantage and great saving to the time of the House the whole proposal of the Government.
1890
1898-02-28
1,162,820
S3V0107P0_14801
said, there were no new officers created, or new salaries given.
1840
null
979,339
S3V0223P0_25810
said, he perfectly agreed with what the right hon.
1870
null
566,974
S3V0318P0_10843
What is the difference between accommodation land and any other land?
1880
null
1,256,236
S4V0015P0_19459
The question of removing the stores and fitting up the remaining space in the torpedo shop will be considered later in the year with the general works proposals from Devonport.
1890
1898-08-03
493,828
S3V0296P0_5184
There were two of these Metropolitan boroughs which were constituencies of consider- able antiquity.
1880
null
732,436
S3V0142P0_817
He could not admit the accuracy of the description given by the noble and learned Lord, and he would only say that the marriage law in Scotland was in accordance with the wishes of a people at least as intellectual as themselves.
1850
null
646,013
S4V0032P0_16520
I am aware that objections have been raised on the grounds mentioned by the hon.
1890
1895-04-08
701,340
S3V0231P0_118
If, indeed, in the inscrutable events the future may reserve, the Austrian Empire was in some degree divided; if germs we see already pushed into maturity; if Hungary was standing by itself, for anything we know the Vassal Principalities of Turkey might be led to gravitate towards it.
1870
null
739,443
S3V0327P0_20756
What the right hon.
1880
null
1,508,932
S3V0300P0_14813
He thought that, at any rate, the Government ought to put in words indicating the exceptional cases.
1880
null
822,918
S3V0225P0_16508
And while this great unenfranchised multitude, nominally of country folk, but in reality, of townsmen, already equal to the population of many an ancient and famous European State, is growing daily in numbers, it is growing likewise in its appetite for political power and its aptitude for political life.
1870
null
610,331
S3V0081P0_18866
Such a course would not bind the House to any decision on the subject.
1840
null
527,014
S3V0336P0_10186
when it grows to the size that I mean to have it, no possible combination of other bantams in the world will be able to beat it. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
1880
null
1,721,575
S3V0157P0_3252
They were, indeed, unintelligible—and the Government of India had not discovered the errors in the accounts or made any proposal to meet the difficulty.
1860
null
34,728
S4V0004P0_6108
*THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. JACKSON, Leeds, N. ) :
1890
1892-05-09
329,274
S3V0137P0_20292
He would, however, under the circumstances in which the House was now placed, not attempt to detain them by enumerating the many evils Which resulted from the jurisdiction of the present courts, and which imperatively demanded the interference of the Legislature, as that had been done on many former occasions; and the necessity for such interference had been acknowledged, as he had before observed, for a great period of time.
1850
null
522,498
S3V0252P0_16397
In dealing with this question, he (Sir R. Assheton Cross) desired that the course taken by the late Government should be pursued by the present one, and a great many hon.
1880
null
57,622
S3V0161P0_9830
said, he thought the suggestion a valuable one; the only difficulty was as to the arrangement of machinery to give it effect with economy and despatch.
1860
null
126,359
S3V0231P0_4316
By expressions sonorous, ambiguous, and magnificent, he led this House, and the country, and the nations of Europe, to suppose that the moral, if not the material support of England, was being given to the Turks.
1870
null
743,641
S3V0121P0_8011
Whatever might be the opinions of those hon.
1850
null
202,458
S3V0133P0_11705
It was impossible to hear the speech of the right hon.
1850
null
428,448
S3V0284P0_25528
It was not the Committee that was the object of attack—
1880
null
606,779
S3V0245P0_15146
said, the Bill had come on him by surprise, and he therefore thought he should be consulted.
1870
null
1,076,861
S3V0034P0_15909
If they did not, what right had they to compel the people to pay for the diffusion of doctrines they believed to be false?
1830
null
687,401
S3V0302P0_15132
I appear here to-day on behalf of the colliery proprietors; and I wish to remind the House that in many cases when an accident happens in a colliery all evidence of carelessness or negligence is swept away by the accident itself.
1880
null
848,897
S3V0198P0_5751
said, that he considered it his duty to challenge the impartiality of these Estimates.
1860
null
1,021,777
S3V0045P0_3829
The noble Viscount answered with great hesitation.
1830
null
864,936
S2V0002P0_136
Those very ministers who threatened the queen, who brought charges, as they expressed it, of a serious nature against her, and who, believing those charges, thought that she ought to be deprived of her rank and dignity, agreed in a resolution to address her majesty, humbly beseeching her majesty """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""not to press farther those propositions on which any material difference of opinion remains. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
1820
null
19,268
S3V0251P0_290
The Assistant Commissioners at home have prepared and sent in their Reports; but they are by no means exhaustive of the subject.
1880
null
24,125
S4V0028P0_6153
The schools of the foundation are public elementary schools in connection with the Church of England.
1890
1894-08-06
608,598
S3V0119P0_13611
Now, he could assure the House they had done no such thing.
1850
null
169,646
S3V0284P0_12375
Friend the Prime Minister, I rise to make the Motion which stands in his name for the revival of the Resolutions of the House of the 1st of December, 1882, relating to the constitution and proceedings of Standing Committees.
1880
null
593,626
S3V0047P0_12311
Such, he could imagine, might have been the tone of the suggestions made to his noble Friend at the time when the measure of negro emancipation was yet untried.
1830
null
907,997
S3V0201P0_12783
But this statement, I understand, taken by itself, would convey a very inadequate and erroneous impression of the exertions of the police.
1870
null
68,694
S3V0084P0_2809
It seemed to him at least that he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was in a similar position, and he should be very glad to hear from him why he did not pursue a similar course of conduct.
1840
null
571,587
S3V0220P0_990
They would not have their pensions unless they served their full time.
1870
null
474,511
S3V0246P0_19161
He rose for the purpose of calling attention to the deplorable and unendurable condition of the landed interest in Ireland.
1870
null
1,109,071
S1V0024P0_3831
It appeared that the Petition now offered was founded upon a fabrication; it originated in a disgraceful forgery, and the House was called upon to listen to the language of those who had been cheated into a resistance to those claims, which, but for the gross imposition, they might have supported.
1810
null
70,692
S3V0114P0_6895
There were certainly claims pending and in the course of negotiation on the part of British subjects against several other States of Spanish America.
1850
null
102,158
S3V0003P0_15521
and learned Gentleman before the change of the law, resembled the state of the middle classes throughout the country at present.
1830
null
111,048
S3V0183P0_2070
Hops were a delicate production, and could not be exposed like other articles to the outward air, and the only real test was after the hops were in the copper and became beer.
1860
null
655,674
S3V0089P0_10502
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1840
null
676,269
S4V0011P0_9444
Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham with bringing an indictment against the common-sense of two nations, because he had imagined that there might be a number of cases where the exercise of Imperial control on the one hand would be absolutely indispensable, and on the other band would cause considerable friction in Ireland.
1890
1893-04-17
426,300
S3V0080P0_3921
Does the right rev.
1840
null
492,455
S4V0038P0_391
The policy of the Council was that it should not be passed over in this matter, that the outside areas should be treated separately, and that their respective authorities should provide them with water.
1890
1896-03-16
815,435
S4V0032P0_16542
I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether his attention has been called to the refusal of the petitions from Savoch and other quoad sacra parishes (possessing School Boards) to be constituted parishes for Parish Council purposes; and whether he will give an assurance that full opportunity will be afforded before the next Parish Council Election takes place for a renewal of such applications, and that, if necessary, legislation will be introduced to facilitate such applications?
1890
1895-04-08
701,362
S1V0014P0_3642
It was enough for him, however, to state, that the practice did not exist now; and his worthy friend who preceded him in his office, would, he believed, be ready to say, that it had not existed in his time.
1800
null
65,572
S3V0227P0_21344
It was with 800 such veterans that the father of the hon. and gallant Gentleman to whom he referred took Cawnpore, which a distinguished Crimean officer, General Wyndham, found himself unable to keep with six, or eight, or ten times the number of unseasoned troops.
1870
null
652,388
S3V0222P0_1473
The right rev.
1870
null
516,208
S3V0272P0_16458
Gentleman not think it harder still for parties who are waiting to have their cases heard?
1880
null
339,274
S2V0007P0_19818
He himself was in the majority against the first motion, and for the second.
1820
null
131,225
S4V0070P0_15149
It would not be a practical danger in a House like this, but I do not think that an ordinary borough council would be improved by the sort of addition I have in my mind.
1890
1899-05-04
1,336,166
S3V0036P0_6445
And I declare that after contemplating the dangers which surround this country, and in the face of the combination, dangerous as I think and unnatural, which I see on the benches opposite, the vindication of my conduct is easy.
1830
null
713,355
S3V0177P0_7722
He hoped that his right hon.
1860
null
515,736
S3V0143P0_8535
There is one reflection which I wish to make in passing: hereditary peerages, from the abstinence of the Crown in respect to new creations, are rapidly diminishing, and if you come to granting peerages for life the independence of the House of Lords will he incurably swamped.
1850
null
681,692
S3V0029P0_1921
The prayer of the petition, he repeated, was, that their Lordships might be pleased to pass unimpaired and unaffected the measure of Corporation Reform about to be presented for their consideration.
1830
null
578,390
S3V0091P0_1044
That is rather the part of the Ministry which appointed them.
1840
null
704,139
S4V0056P0_1283
Member used language more exaggerated than any that has been used in the course of this Debate about the prison system in England.
1890
1898-04-04
1,208,893
S2V0022P0_1916
Mr. Canning repeatedly urged the Powers of Europe to remain tranquil, and to aid the establishment of the Constitution by the countenance extended by their several Ambassadors at Lisbon, on the assurance that England would not at all interfere in its maintenance, and that it did not, as he had said, originate with the British Government.
1830
null
1,916
S3V0109P0_17345
Gentleman alluded to the great good which might be done by the reduction of the size of the vessels, that he (Mr. G. Berkeley) had been in correspondence with a person connected with this question, and intimately connected with Africa, and he stated that there were steam slavers employed on the African coast that set at defiance sailing vessels, and were capable of carrying from 1, 400 to 2, 000 men; and if they carried their trade on the coast of Africa to a greater extent than ever—as to another remark of the hon.
1850
null
35,951
S3V0090P0_7528
then rose to move for leave to introduce a Bill for repealing the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Bill.
1840
null
692,219
S3V0235P0_25679
He did not admit, however, that they had failed, or that there was any statistical proof of a deficiency of University education in Ireland.
1870
null
865,363
S3V0208P0_17310
That Order, so far as I am acquainted with it — and what has appeared has never been contradicted—instead of fixing the responsibility, as it ought to be fixed, solely upon the head of the First Lord of the Admiralty, who has the control over his subordinates in his office, and can dismiss them if they do not do their duty, and surround himself with men competent to advise—divides it among several persons.
1870
null
250,610
S3V0157P0_19038
said, he understood that the Rate Books had a column for gross rental as well as for rateable value; but his right hon.
1860
null
50,514
S1V0037P0_1116
He would undertake to state with reference to this town in particular, that the alarm which was excited among the disaffected by the passing of those bills had materially checked their proceedings.
1810
null
153,617
S2V0010P0_4086
He was happy to say, however, that the difference was at this time a matter of negotiation between the two countries, and that it had been entered into on both sides in an amicable spirit, with a view merely to secure mutual interests.
1820
null
182,078
S3V0084P0_16827
Member for Finsbury with respect to the supply of food, that in cases of urgent necessity, very ample arrangements had been made by the Government to meet that necessity; and when the proper time arrived, Government would ask for the sanction of Parliament to the steps which had been taken, availing themselves of their responsibility to make such provision.
1840
null
585,605
S3V0091P0_14886
Religious teaching by schoolmasters was a system which had been unsuccessfully tried in Holland; but in a year or two after introducing it, they were obliged to alter it.
1840
null
717,981
S4V0068P0_19414
There is a most glaring case of imperfect safeguard in clause 8.
1890
1899-03-21
1,320,385
S3V0174P0_17079
Then, when my noble Friend Lord Russell was removed to the House of Lords—the dignity of the peerage having been conferred upon him as a mark and reward of his long and distinguished services, and also from the circumstance that his health had suffered materially by his labours in the House of Commons—
1860
null
435,312
S4V0077P0_8918
I cannot give the absolute date.
1890
1899-10-25
1,411,488
S3V0341P0_26041
Do they identify themselves with acts which up to 1885 they condemned?
1890
1890-03-03
26,041
S3V0084P0_5450
But you will say that the quantity grown in Denmark is insufficient to supply the wants of our population.
1840
null
574,228
S3V0205P0_13266
But a fertile source of future danger would have remained open; and they could hardly have hoped to hold Russia, who would always have been looking forward to possible contingencies that might favour her objects, permanently down to the terms of the Treaty.
1870
null
169,063
S3V0193P0_397
There are many such who have laboriously earned preferment, and are only waiting for some contingency to receive their reward; but who will be visited with injustice and injury should this Bill receive your Lordships' sanction.
1860
null
882,276
S4V0011P0_22863
in the Income Tax, and who cannot be held responsible for any of those movements which have resulted in such a vast expenditure.
1890
1893-04-27
439,719
S3V0149P0_6401
rose, and was about to address the House: when
1850
null
833,920
S3V0031P0_16868
Besides, the proposal of the hon.
1830
null
632,434
S3V0091P0_17780
He had already risen twenty times, and had not been able to speak, and, therefore, he thought himself entitled at once to refer to the treatment of the Roman Catholics.
1840
null
720,875
S3V0329P0_27240
MR.
1880
null
1,543,463
S3V0175P0_15242
Hong Kong had been made by us a free port, and the experiment had succeeded; but the fact of our doing so was a cause of considerable annoyance to the Chinese Government, and it was only after a long war, in which the Chinese were defeated, that we obtained the cession of Hong Kong.
1860
null
461,483
S3V0222P0_4380
In the case, for example, of the borough of Stafford there was a vacancy in May, 1835, occasioned by the acceptance by the sitting Member of the Chiltern Hundreds, and the strength of that case lay in the fact, that it was not by reason of any corruption which had been proved as having occurred in the existing, but in the previous Parliament, between 1832 and 1834, that the House in the exercise of its discretion absolutely suspended the issue of a writ from the 18th of May, 1835, to the 13th of February, 1837.
1870
null
519,115
S3V0037P0_14106
He (Mr. Hume) had often heard the noble Lord, when on this side of the House, point out, in able and eloquent terms, the evils which had resulted from the system which had formerly existed, of refusing civil rights on the ground of religious faith; and he was at a loss to account for the strange perversion of reasoning which had led the noble Lord now to go back from his former sentiments.
1830
null
740,032
S3V0317P0_19289
MR.
1880
null
1,232,265
S3V0156P0_9144
This case, which was a charge of having used traitorous words—a case not at all likely to be favoured in those days—was removed after verdict, and the Court of Queen's Bench granted a new trial.
1860
null
9,144
S3V0215P0_14288
Only a day or two ago the right hon.
1870
null
389,797
S3V0186P0_14786
So long, therefore, as piracy existed we must maintain a force there for the protection of a commerce—which, great as it is, is yet but in its infancy.
1860
null
724,913
S3V0156P0_20460
Gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) that this was the object which those who sit opposite have in view
1860
null
20,460
S4V0010P0_4885
I answered that in the negative.
1890
1893-03-16
391,147
S3V0329P0_22065
That did not say the letter was genuine or forged.
1880
null
1,538,288