The Grey ministry. The Melbourne ministry. The interregnum. Sir R. Peel's ministry. The Melbourne ministryR. Bentley, 1837 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abuses according authority Ballot beer better Bishops body Catholic cause Chancellor character Cheers Church confidence constitution course declared desire dispositions Duke effect election electoral enemy England error Establishment evil exercise friends give Government Grey Ministry hands hereditary Herr Von Raumer hold honour House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers improvement injustice institution interests Ireland Irish irresponsible judgment justice King legislation Legislature Lord Althorp Lord Brougham Lord Grey Lord John Russell Lord Lyndhurst Lord Melbourne Lord Stanley majority measures Melbourne Ministry ment Ministers mischief Municipal nation necessary never O'Connell object observed opposed opposition Parliament party Peel's Peerage political poor popular present principle professions proposed public opinion question Radicals Reform Bill religious instruction Second Chamber Sir James Graham Sir Robert Peel spirit suppose sure things tion Tories truth Upper House vote Whigs
Passagens conhecidas
Página 56 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Página 120 - His station is there ; and he works on the crowd, He sways them with harmony merry and loud ; He fills with his power all their hearts to the brim, Was aught ever heard like his fiddle and him...
Página 121 - That tall Man, a Giant in bulk and in height, Not an inch of his body is free from delight ; Can he keep himself still, if he would ? oh, not he ! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree.
Página 306 - Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a free government, but without municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Página 175 - Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights, the correction of proved abuses, and the redress of real grievances, in that case I can, for myself and colleagues, undertake to act in such a spirit, and with such intentions.
Página 114 - My noble and learned friend (lord Brougham) has been pleased to give some advice, which, I have no doubt, he deems very sound, to some classes of persons — I know none such — who evince too strong a desire to get rid of ancient abuses, and fretful impatience in awaiting the remedies of them. Now I frankly confess that I am one of those persons who see with regret every hour which passes over the existence of recognised and unreformed abuses.
Página 174 - Bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question — a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insiduous means.
Página 121 - That Mother, whose spirit in fetters is bound, While she dandles the Babe in her arms to the sound. Now, coaches and chariots ! roar on like a stream ; Here are twenty souls happy as souls in a dream : They are deaf to your murmurs — they care not for you, Nor what ye are flying, nor what ye pursue ! STAR-GAZERS.
Página 309 - The government of a democracy brings the notion of political rights to the level of the humblest citizens, just as the dissemination of wealth brings the notion of property within the reach of all men; to my mind, this is one of its greatest advantages. I do not...
Página 173 - I cannot give my consent to the alienating of Church property, in any part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiastical purposes.