Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Parte 1G. P. Putnam's sons, 1908 - 416 páginas |
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Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Parte 1 Sir Henry William Lucy Visualização integral - 1908 |
Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Parte 1 Sir Henry William Lucy Visualização integral - 1908 |
Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Parte 1 Sir Henry William Lucy Visualização integral - 1908 |
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Arthur Balfour Balfour Bradlaugh Cabinet career Chamber Chamberlain Chancellor cheer close colleagues Committee Conservative course Courtney debate dinner Disraeli Disraeli's division Division Lobby Election Fourth Party galleries Gangway gentleman Gladstone Gladstone's Government hand head heard Henry Wolff Home Rule Bill hour House of Commons House of Lords Ireland Irish Members Labour later Leader Liberal Party Lobby looked Lord Beaconsfield Lord Hartington Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury majority manner matter ment Ministerial Morley morning never night o'clock occasion opening Parlia Parliament Parliamentary Parnell Peel peer political position Premier Premiership present Prime Minister Queen question scene seat Secretary Serjeant-at-Arms Session side Sir Charles Dilke Sir Stafford Sir William Harcourt sitting Speaker speech Stafford Northcote standing statesman stood success things tion took Treasury Bench Unionist voice vote W. H. Smith Westminster whilst writes young
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Página 287 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Página 88 - I might as well attempt to gather up the foam of the sea, as to convey an idea of the extraordinary language in which he clothed his description. There were, at least, five words in every sentence that must have been very much astonished at the use they were put to, and yet no others apparently could so well have conveyed his idea. He talked like a race-horse approaching the winning-post, every muscle in action, and the utmost energy of expression flung out in every burst.
Página 89 - I avoided LEL, who looked the very personification of Brompton — pink satin dress and white satin shoes, red cheeks, snub nose, and her hair a la Sappho.
Página 324 - Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland — we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out : ' Let us have no party questions, but fixity of tenure.
Página 410 - Liberals to power in 1880 he was appointed President of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the cabinet.
Página 395 - Gentlemen of the jury,' the learned gentleman said, with a tremor of genuine emotion in his voice, ' it will be for you to say whether this defendant shall be allowed to come into court with unblushing footsteps, with the cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my client's pocket with impunity.
Página 95 - Party," which Disraeli did not live long enough to see in actual being. " Rouse yourselves in the hour of doubt and danger," the young man cried aloud to the slumbering constituency. " Rid yourselves of all the political jargon and factious slang of Whig and Tory, and unite in forming a great national party which can alone save the country from impending destruction.
Página 98 - ... he often appeared as if trying with what celerity he could move his body from one side to another, and throw his hands out and draw them in again. At other times he flourished one hand before his face, and then the other. His voice, too, is of a very unusual kind : it is powerful, and had every justice done to it in the way of exercise ; but there is something peculiar in it which I am at a loss to characterise. His utterance is rapid, and he never seemed at a loss for words.
Página 105 - Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt and a rattle} indeed, gifted with a volubility I should think unequalled, and of which I can convey no idea. She told me she liked silent, melancholy men. I answered that I had no doubt of it.
Página 77 - I have also the fame of being the first who ever passed the Straits with two canes, a morning and an evening cane. I change my cane as the gun fires, and hope to carry them both on to Cairo. It is wonderful the effect these magical wands produce. I owe to them even more attention than to being the supposed author of — what is it — I forget!