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... House of Commons in 1837 , as member for Maidstone . In 1841 , he left that borough and became the representative of Shrewsbury . Speedly attaining Parlia- mentary rank , by means of his very clever and bitter criti- cisms on the policy ...
... House of Commons in 1837 , as member for Maidstone . In 1841 , he left that borough and became the representative of Shrewsbury . Speedly attaining Parlia- mentary rank , by means of his very clever and bitter criti- cisms on the policy ...
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... House of Commons , and who fairly won his place among the nobles of England , should have committed himself to the hopeless task of converting his great office into an imitation of that held by the servant and minister of some Oriental ...
... House of Commons , and who fairly won his place among the nobles of England , should have committed himself to the hopeless task of converting his great office into an imitation of that held by the servant and minister of some Oriental ...
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... House of Commons as Grand Viziers played with the mob of Bagdad or Constantinople in former days , -treating it to alternate doses of sweet - meats and drugs ; now exhibiting a studied contempt for its rights , and now overwhelming it ...
... House of Commons as Grand Viziers played with the mob of Bagdad or Constantinople in former days , -treating it to alternate doses of sweet - meats and drugs ; now exhibiting a studied contempt for its rights , and now overwhelming it ...
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... House of Commons . I have heard Spurgeon at his best , letting every man in his vast Taber- nacle hear each syllable as it fell from his lips . I remember , too , the mellifluous tones of Wilberforce ; and I am familiar with the silken ...
... House of Commons . I have heard Spurgeon at his best , letting every man in his vast Taber- nacle hear each syllable as it fell from his lips . I remember , too , the mellifluous tones of Wilberforce ; and I am familiar with the silken ...
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... House of Commons is as strict in his rule of life as Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden Castle . Both as a man and a politician , a great and abiding reverence for conscience is his distinguishing characteristic . Next to this characteristic , I ...
... House of Commons is as strict in his rule of life as Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden Castle . Both as a man and a politician , a great and abiding reverence for conscience is his distinguishing characteristic . Next to this characteristic , I ...
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Page 81 - Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power...
Page 91 - ... final adoption of Free Trade ; the abolition of the taxes upon knowledge, of the religious disabilities of the Jews, of the restrictions on the borough franchise, and of the limitation of the University privileges; the disestablishment of the Irish Church ; the reform of the Irish land system ; ihe remodelling of the Army ; the adoption of the Ballot ; the introduction of a national system of 'Education; and the substitution of arbitration for war as a means of settling international controversies....
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Page 205 - His own life was to a large extent — I speak it with reverence and with hesitation — a sermon based upon that best, that greatest of all sermons. His was a life of perpetual selfsacrifice.
Page ix - In the case of Members of Parliament, I have wished to indicate to some extent the position they hold, and the reputation they enjoy in the House itself...