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" The King's Government had abstained from all unseemly triumph in the King's Speech respecting the measure of Reform. He (Sir R. Peel) would profit by their example, and would say nothing upon that head, but consider that question as finally and irrevocably... "
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 385
by Great Britain. Parliament - 1833
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A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel

Sir Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 334 pages
...summoned under the Reform Act. In the debate on the address, I used the following expressions: — ' The King's government had abstained from all unseemly...measure of reform. He would profit by their example, and say nothing upon that head, but consider that question as finally and irrevocably disposed of. He was...
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A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel

Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 356 pages
...under the Reform Act. In the debate on the address, I used the following expressions: — ' The Bang's government had abstained from all unseemly triumph...measure of reform. He would profit by their example, and say nothing upon that head, but consider that question as finally and irrevocably disposed of. He was...
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Popular History of England, Volume 8

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...parliament. On the third night of the debate on the Address, sir Robert Peel thus declared himself: — " The King's Government had abstained from all unseemly...it existed, to take his stand on main and essential matters — to join in resisting every attempt at new measures which could not be stirred without unsettling...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 8

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 810 pages
...parliament. On the third night of the debate on the Address, sir Eobert Peel thus declared himself : — " The King's Government had abstained from all unseemly...triumph in the King's speech respecting the measure of Eeform. He would profit by their example, and would say nothing upon that head ; but consider that...
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The Popular History of England, Volumes 7-8

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1318 pages
...parliament. On the third night of the debate on the Address, sir Robert Peel thus declared himself: — "The King's Government had abstained from all unseemly...profit by their example, and would say nothing upon t'lat head ; but consider that question as finally and irrevocably disposed of. He was now determined...
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A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 3

Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1890 - 528 pages
...doing it gradually, dispassionately, and deliberately, in order that the reform might be lasting. . . . The King's Government had abstained from all unseemly...now determined to look forward to the future alone. . . . There were no means of governing this country but through the House of Commons ; and, therefore,...
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Peel

James Richard Thursfield - 1891 - 264 pages
...abstained from all unseemly triumph in the King's Speech respecting the measure of reform. He (Sir R. Peel) would profit by their example, and would say nothing upon that head, but consider that question as fatally and irrevocably disposed of. He was now determined to look forward to the future alone, and...
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Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Howard Martin - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...February 1833. Source C respecting the measure of reform. He would ... consider that question as fmally and irrevocably disposed of. He was now determined...it existed, to take his stand on main and essential matters - to join in resisting every attempt at new measures, which could not be stirred without unsettling...
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The Transformation of Anglicanism: From State Church to Global Communion

William L. Sachs - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 404 pages
...age in which he lived. He believed that institutions required adjustment, but that reform had been "finally and irrevocably disposed of. He was now determined...it existed, to take his stand on main and essential matters." For Peel main matters included the Corn Laws, the repeal of which cost him office in 1846,...
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