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S3V0339P0_21739 | But I have a third proposition to make, and it is with reference to the action of these gentlemen in connection with the files of newspapers. | 1880 | null | 1,791,334 |
S3V0204P0_14996 | If Her Majesty's Government, with their full knowledge of the facts, had put it to the House that the safety of Ireland required the immediate adoption of remedial measures, no hon. | 1870 | null | 143,250 |
S3V0174P0_15843 | """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I have to report that at ten o'clock a. m. on the 1st inst. , two men, names unknown, went into a field in the above townland, where Michael Coughlan, his two brothers, and seven men (in the employment of Coughlan) were ploughing, and told Coughlan 'that he had no right to come there without first settling with John Doorley (the former tenant, who had been evicted from that farm in December last), and that if he did not settle with Doorley, that he, Doorley, would, if it was to go for three or five years, get a man to go into the field and shoot him. ' | 1860 | null | 434,076 |
S3V0324P0_7174 | Gentleman had produced, or could produce. | 1880 | null | 1,411,967 |
S3V0096P0_7748 | Gentleman who was now Secretary of State for the Home Department, on that occasion urged the necessity of providing some remedy for the evil, and supported the Motion. | 1840 | null | 798,344 |
S3V0088P0_4844 | In the cultivation of indigo, cotton, lac, and the other products of the soil, the native can only be a labourer. | 1840 | null | 656,808 |
S3V0339P0_5785 | Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales will, no doubt, have the main voice in the disposal of this money, but we are also putting it in the hands of official trustees, and we do not know what views they may take of the manner in which the money is to be allocated in the future. | 1880 | null | 1,775,380 |
S3V0305P0_25239 | Certainty not. | 1880 | null | 943,532 |
S4V0020P0_9589 | Rules which might do very well in London might be simply ridiculous as applied to rural constituencies. | 1890 | 1893-12-28 | 513,505 |
S3V0253P0_217 | What could he more disastrous to the Church than that, for the first time in our history, there should be drawn a line of demarcation across our old churchyards, and that if a stranger should ask its meaning he should be told that on one side reposed the bodies of English Churchmen and on the other the bodies of English Christians? | 1880 | null | 68,516 |
S2V0022P0_10474 | In other Canal Bills, however, he had certainly had an interest. | 1830 | null | 10,474 |
S3V0234P0_28445 | At one time, however, some boys had been admitted by passing the weak-test examination only, but they were then much wanted in the Service. | 1870 | null | 838,953 |
S3V0239P0_14475 | What strikes me most in connection with the present crisis is the pitiful impotence of European statesmanship. | 1870 | null | 936,242 |
S3V0138P0_27180 | I think it a great thing for the noble Lord opposite to be able to say that there are two Members of his Cabinet whom the House of Commons has not condemned. | 1850 | null | 558,376 |
S3V0250P0_8503 | My first word is an expression of the deepest sympathy on behalf of the Irish people suffering from this distress. | 1880 | null | 8,503 |
S3V0056P0_2275 | The hon. | 1840 | null | 73,143 |
S3V0343P0_18631 | It is perfectly impossible to make any two of them agree. | 1890 | 1890-04-22 | 79,025 |
S3V0356P0_2039 | This power has been given to a Judge, and, perhaps, also—though this is not free from doubt—to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction. | 1890 | 1891-07-30 | 246,224 |
S3V0126P0_15461 | Their condition, he was bound to admit, and happy to admit, was at present somewhat improved as compared with what it had been. | 1850 | null | 292,901 |
S3V0035P0_16322 | It had often been made a complaint against the Dutch, that they paid too narrow an attention to their own interests, in their intercourse with other nations. | 1830 | null | 705,940 |
S3V0039P0_12910 | Possessed, and on the defensive as he is, he will not be obliged to prove his special merit in order to justify the act of legal discretion. | 1830 | null | 783,612 |
S3V0172P0_12258 | He was bound to say that the inconvenience to which he referred had to a great extent been avoided by the moderation and good sense of the old Directors who had seats in Parliament; but the difficulty must have been felt more or less; and when the remodelling of the system was proposed, the House determined by a large majority, upon a review of the whole question, that the members of Council should not have seats in the House. | 1860 | null | 409,800 |
S3V0337P0_10987 | The salary will be as laid down in the Bill as now drawn, and, under the powers of the Bill as asked for by the Government, I do not wish to add another such office of profit, because I believe the money may be easily saved by amalgamating the Office of Board of Works, or that of the Lord President of the Council, with that of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. | 1880 | null | 1,751,975 |
S3V0290P0_25190 | That was all very well, and so it might be if it were some charge made in an English Office of some stuff being a yard too short; but here they were dealing with the head of the crimes discovery department in Ireland, and they were dealing with an Irish Member of Parliament and the editor of one of the most powerful and popular journals in the country. | 1880 | null | 690,473 |
S3V0341P0_21601 | The question is a very grave one, and one that involves the country in a very large expenditure. | 1890 | 1890-02-27 | 21,601 |
S3V0101P0_1596 | It so happened that he never was a member of the Anti-Slavery Society; he never even subscribed to it, he never attended their councils. | 1840 | null | 874,626 |
S3V0261P0_10602 | The right hon. | 1880 | null | 154,348 |
S3V0310P0_3253 | These are the monuments of the reign of Queen Victoria. | 1880 | null | 1,036,966 |
S3V0009P0_11851 | thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; E'en them, who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not. | 1830 | null | 219,602 |
S3V0228P0_16539 | Well, the Navy will cost £11, 289, 000, the Civil Service £13, 309, 000, the Customs £2, 730, 000, and the Post Office Service £3, 120, 000. | 1870 | null | 674,437 |
S3V0126P0_5847 | Well now, Sir, I am not anxious to trouble the House with details of this kind, but I think that this is an occasion on which they ought to be noticed. | 1850 | null | 283,287 |
S3V0224P0_24093 | He hoped, however, it would not be repeated. | 1870 | null | 592,169 |
S3V0194P0_15244 | that if the Government thought it right to reduce the army to the extent of 11, 000 men they have done it in the best manner. | 1860 | null | 923,926 |
S3V0144P0_28212 | I gave my vote on that single issue. | 1850 | null | 720,666 |
S3V0283P0_22359 | He desired to confine his remarks to the question of Public Works—a question second to none in its importance. | 1880 | null | 579,626 |
S3V0139P0_21324 | I will state hereafter why I hold this opinion; and I now want to know, in the first place, whether this Convention has been submitted to the law officers of the Crown, whether they approve of its language and are ready to give their opinions as to its legal meaning and operation? | 1850 | null | 581,133 |
S3V0032P0_9393 | His right hon. | 1830 | null | 643,969 |
S3V0181P0_25127 | With reference to the second part of the Question, the noble Lord was aware that the correspondence had only recently taken place, and, as it was now under the consideration of a Select Committee, he must decline to produce it pending the inquiry. | 1860 | null | 620,681 |
S3V0280P0_13907 | The attitude assumed by the Premier in this matter was one that tended to lower the morality of the House, and to put Irish Members on their mettle. | 1880 | null | 483,127 |
S3V0342P0_3234 | It tells us first to thank the Judges for their impartiality and justice. | 1890 | 1890-03-21 | 32,914 |
S3V0244P0_5090 | Member who started the question was not a county Member, but a borough. | 1870 | null | 1,037,547 |
S3V0201P0_13756 | Unfortunately, that Bill was brought forward—like all measures relating to Indian affairs—towards the very close of the Session, when the House was remarkable only for empty Benches; and he accordingly determined not to bring forward his Motion under such circumstances, but to postpone it to the present Session. | 1870 | null | 69,667 |
S3V0191P0_9867 | It is very difficult to know which of the two guides we ought to follow in the conduct of the debate; but my feeling on the whole is, that as we may have future opportunities of dealing with the Motion and sentiments of the right hon. | 1860 | null | 830,961 |
S3V0228P0_7569 | said, that the Amendment was not an enacting clause, but merely gave power to Her Majesty to include her colonial dominions and to recognize her colonies as part of her Empire. | 1870 | null | 665,467 |
S3V0163P0_315 | Another cause of much of the mischief which had occurred was to be found in a merely nominal and fictitious extension of English laws to the natives. | 1860 | null | 181,439 |
S3V0284P0_21425 | The men who issued these placards had admitted the illegality of the placards. | 1880 | null | 602,676 |
S3V0085P0_3563 | It was beginning at the wrong end; it would be far better to revise the system of licenses. | 1840 | null | 594,086 |
S3V0002P0_2670 | agreed, that the more proper course was, to abstain from any discussion of the subject at present, nor was it his intention to enter upon it. | 1830 | null | 79,158 |
S3V0094P0_7441 | He was sure that his noble Friend, Lord Stanley, who proposed the measure for that purpose, would not say that he saw any disinclination on his part to diminish a superabundent episcopacy in Ireland. | 1840 | null | 767,843 |
S3V0290P0_10268 | On the other hand, my hon. | 1880 | null | 675,551 |
S4V0051P0_22703 | Question put and agreed to. | 1890 | 1897-07-29 | 1,128,268 |
S4V0038P0_4821 | But there was always a fear that a reaction would follow large expenditure. | 1890 | 1896-03-05 | 819,865 |
S3V0076P0_1505 | This rule is unjust to the defendant, for he is punished when he may be innocent, and it is unjust to the public, as it must have a tendency to fetter free discussion, and prevent the disclosure of facts in which the public are interested. | 1840 | null | 401,066 |
S3V0339P0_20442 | I am afraid that the introduction of a new word which actually means the same thing will only lead to confusion. | 1880 | null | 1,790,037 |
S3V0335P0_29738 | HALLEY STEWART (Lincolnshire, Spalding) : | 1880 | null | 1,710,315 |
S3V0103P0_8530 | The House had been told that it was not likely that other countries would year after year keep their ports hermetically sealed. | 1840 | null | 911,890 |
S3V0324P0_20056 | Friend is always in the belief that the majority of the people are inclined to go wrong—that the majority of the people do not know what is best for them—and, in these circumstances, he wants to secure some plan by which superior persons of prominence and ability—who are not popular enough to get elected | 1880 | null | 1,424,849 |
S3V0085P0_7933 | Now, it is to be recollected, that although these Commissioners were very good judges with regard to the state of Ireland as it then was, and with regard to what they knew of its wants, they were not equally good judges with respect to a system of outdoor relief: a system of outdoor relief having never been established in Ireland, I think it was not likely that they, having no experience on that subject, should be able to tell all the evils of that system. | 1840 | null | 598,456 |
S3V0183P0_19556 | Member said that the difference between £50 and £10 was too great, that he was not pledged to £10, and that if the general feeling was in favour of a £20 franchise, he would bring in a Bill proposing that amount; and a voice in a crowd said, """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""And quite low enough. | 1860 | null | 673,160 |
S3V0204P0_23898 | For a long time the mummery of fines and recoveries existed, by which, when a man desired to settle his estate, he had first, by a legal fiction, to see it forfeited to the Crown, and by a second legal fiction to see it re-granted, both processes involving considerable expense. | 1870 | null | 152,152 |
S3V0147P0_17695 | c. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1850 | null | 793,753 |
S3V0340P0_8291 | I think it due to the Committee that I should at once utter a few words in regard to this Amendment. | 1880 | null | 1,807,069 |
S3V0136P0_3937 | As regards the Crimean medal, it is intended, as explained the other day, that all those concerned with this campaign, from the first down to the present time, should receive that medal. | 1850 | null | 477,582 |
S3V0327P0_11874 | Member for Flintshire (Mr. S. Smith) had in bringing forward this clause. | 1880 | null | 1,500,050 |
S3V0320P0_3091 | I beg to move the following New Clause:— """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1880 | null | 1,310,684 |
S3V0266P0_36 | Throughout these transactions Abdurrahman has shown himself to be anxious to be on friendly relations with the British Government. | 1880 | null | 238,175 |
S3V0067P0_7896 | thought that most of the reductions mentioned by the hon. | 1840 | null | 293,904 |
S3V0324P0_12452 | You must look at the number of years' purchase which land will fetch, and not merely at the annual value. | 1880 | null | 1,417,245 |
S3V0245P0_7099 | The question of appeal was extremely important; but then there was this difficulty—that if they gave the prisoner the right of appeal, they must give it also to the other side—the Crown; and the question altogether was so large and difficult, that he thought it would have been bettor not to have introduced it into the present measure, but to have dealt with it by a separate Bill; the same observation would apply to the provisions for new trials. | 1870 | null | 1,068,814 |
S4V0001P0_10575 | Member for South Tyrone will find that there have been exceedingly few cases in which the labourers have been prosecuted and evicted for non-payment of rent. | 1890 | 1892-02-17 | 276,108 |
S3V0224P0_12678 | He feared that if the measure were passed, so far from forming a basis for a local budget, the question of the amount to be advanced to the local authorities would be brought more immediately and directly under the control of party and political influences, and henceforth money would be advanced or withheld, not according to the merits of the case, but according as the Representatives of the borough seeking to borrow were supporters or the op-posers of the Government of the day. | 1870 | null | 580,754 |
S3V0128P0_14579 | In reply to Question 2, 528 of the Report, Sir Erskine Perry, when asked his opinion with respect to the amalgamation of the two systems, stated that he was favourable to the amalgamation, if it could be done in a large and comprehensive measure forming a part of an organic change in the system of government, and, above all, passed in this country. | 1850 | null | 330,873 |
S3V0278P0_5483 | It is not the case, Sir, that the veterinary surgeon refused to pass the mules in question. | 1880 | null | 420,425 |
S3V0016P0_11225 | Would they put a stop to noon-day murder and midnight assassination? | 1830 | null | 348,157 |
S3V0097P0_17525 | He wished that those hon. | 1840 | null | 828,105 |
S3V0341P0_2229 | The great majority of the House, I may say the House unanimously, has always been desirous to find a reasonable road, if it could be found, out of the necessity of taking notice of these breaches of privilege. | 1890 | 1890-02-11 | 2,229 |
S3V0024P0_9399 | They were not responsible for his disagreement with the Government. | 1830 | null | 495,847 |
S3V0246P0_1402 | It seems to me they utterly deceive themselves; and neither reflect with care upon the slender means which exist for the attainment of their purpose, nor the urgent motives which may lead the authorities of Russia to defeat it. | 1870 | null | 1,091,312 |
S4V0036P0_12744 | The Commission laid down a scale, and that was that the salaries should begin at £150 and increase to £300. | 1890 | 1895-08-26 | 777,961 |
S3V0038P0_17310 | Member for Tamworth, who said, do not get rid of this tax— | 1830 | null | 763,058 |
S3V0052P0_4778 | What were those grounds? | 1840 | null | 23,050 |
S3V0280P0_9757 | He understood the hon. and learned Solicitor General was opposed to the second reading of the Bill. | 1880 | null | 478,977 |
S3V0246P0_4781 | Sir, a partial Return, such as the hon. | 1870 | null | 1,094,691 |
S2V0008P0_18169 | He would net trespass on the time of the House by referring particularly to the papers on the table. | 1820 | null | 156,312 |
S3V0181P0_24944 | said, he rose to move certain Amendments of Standing Orders and certain new Standing Orders of which he had given notice. | 1860 | null | 620,498 |
S4V0028P0_4104 | Friend thinks the information incorrect I will make further inquiry. | 1890 | 1894-08-03 | 606,549 |
S3V0312P0_13178 | I do not intend to occupy much of the time of the Committee, not more than five minutes; but, as I represent a Dockyard constituency, I should like to be allowed to say just half-a-dozen words. | 1880 | null | 1,105,363 |
S4V0046P0_6002 | Member for Northampton was perfectly justified in his assumption that the proposed addition to the Army was directly connected with the occupation of Egypt. | 1890 | 1897-02-12 | 1,011,514 |
S3V0169P0_21133 | I will prove it, because one attack which has been made upon the Government is that we did not let the Greeks know that by our diplomatic engagements, and by considerations of our own, Prince Alfred could not accept the crown of Greece, and that we did not thus prevent his election. | 1860 | null | 336,748 |
S4V0042P0_650 | He held that it would be far better not to put into operation the proposed provision for the prohibition of the sale of fish unless they could obtain a general agreement among all the Towers fishing in the North Sea to the establishment of sanctuaries in the sea where these small fish might grow to maturity unharmed. | 1890 | 1896-07-06 | 920,944 |
S3V0141P0_22991 | Then follow a series of truisms, which were truisms months before, and 1645 might just as well have suggested themselves then to the noble Lord's imagination— """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""It is plain that without assistance the whole Turkish force in Asia must be destroyed or captured. | 1850 | null | 639,947 |
S3V0160P0_8364 | He believed that where prejudices did exist in the minds of such men they were generally in the right direction. | 1860 | null | 100,999 |
S3V0339P0_24656 | Before the sittings of the Commission there was the O'Donnell trial, and I presume these experts were consulted in reference to that trial, for the Attorney General declared that he had the best information that could be got in respect to the letters. | 1880 | null | 1,794,251 |
S3V0006P0_12835 | The freemen of Newcastle had declared, that although they regretted such a clause had been introduced into the Bill, yet if a retention of their privileges was considered a bar to its passing, they were willing to resign all their own views to ensure its success. | 1830 | null | 170,988 |
S3V0243P0_396 | I put it to your Lordships whether that paragraph was not likely to lead to the erroneous impression that Lord North-brook desired to make an engagement somewhat similar to that which the Ameer desired, but before doing so he referred home for permission; that he got instructions, which were opposed to his proposal; that, therefore, he did not give the assurances which he wished to give, and that he postponed the discussion to a more convenient season? | 1870 | null | 1,004,489 |
S3V0040P0_12085 | Member for Cockermouth, for the recovery of tenements, ought also to be referred to the same Committee, as the subject of all the three Bills was intimately connected. | 1830 | null | 803,360 |
S4V0076P0_740 | He has filled a most important position during a time of exceptional difficulty, and has shown on more than one occasion how much can be done by a High Commissioner in South Africa merely through force of character. | 1890 | 1899-08-07 | 1,399,884 |
S3V0180P0_13026 | and learned Gentleman said that the appointment of Mr. Bethell was announced on the 24th; but two days afterwards the Lord Chancellor announced that he would do nothing for his son. | 1860 | null | 592,414 |
S3V0185P0_19063 | said, that some nights ago, in Committee of the House, a sum of £6, 000 was voted for excess of expenditure, and he wanted to ask the Secretary of the Treasury what this was for? | 1860 | null | 702,296 |
S3V0091P0_12160 | Such an example ought to be a warning to those who were inclined by (so called) liberal opinions to promote the separation of the Church from the State of this country; a measure which, whilst it would impair the efficiency of the Church, would unchristianize the State; and such was the tendency of the Bill before the House. | 1840 | null | 715,255 |