Life of the Earl of Derby, K.G.

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W. H. Allen & Company, limited, 1893 - 220 страници
 

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Страница 152 - Let me play the lion too : I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me ; I will roar, that I will make the duke say, Let him roar again, Let him roar again.
Страница 174 - The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path. 'Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, 'ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Страница 130 - Except for preventing or repelling actual invasion of Her Majesty's Indian Possessions, or under other sudden and urgent necessity, the revenues of India shall not, without the consent of both Houses of Parliament, be applicable to defray the expenses of any military operation carried on beyond the external frontiers of such p issessions by Her Majesty's forces charged upon such revenues.
Страница 57 - People sprang up like mushrooms; town suddenly became full. Everybody who had been in office, and everybody who wished to be in office; everybody who had ever had anything, and everybody who ever expected to have anything, were alike visible. All of course by mere accident; one might meet the same men regularly every day for a month, who were only 'passing through town.
Страница 164 - No doubt we are making a great experiment and "taking a leap in the dark," but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong hope that the extended franchise which we are now conferring upon them will be the means of placing the institutions of this country on a firmer basis, and that the passing of this measure will tend to increase the loyalty and contentment of a great portion of Her Majesty's subjects.
Страница 169 - ... operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland to objects of immediate necessity, or involving individual rights, pending the final decision of Parliament. 3. That...
Страница 174 - Remember who these men are. These are the men whom you invited to settle on the soil of Ireland, for the establishment and support of the Protestant religion. These are the men who, at the time of the sorest trial of the Crown of England, came forward to support William the Deliverer, and who at the battle of the Boyne vindicated the freedom of Ireland and the rights of the Protestant religion.
Страница 87 - Peel. I have thus given you my view of the case as put forward by the pamphlet ; and looking back at the whole transaction, I retain the impression that the Conservative party had been led to believe in Sir R. Peel's maintenance of the principle of effective protection; and that they had a right to complain of, and to resent, the course which he took in making a temporary calamity subservient to the object of a total abandonment of a principle which he had led them to believe he would maintain, and...
Страница 169 - That, subject to the foregoing considerations, it is expedient to prevent the creation of new personal interests by the exercise of any public patronage, and to confine the operations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland to objects of immediate necessity, or involving individual rights, pending the final decision of Parliament.

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