Lord Rosebery, His Life and Speeches, Količina 1

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Hutchinson and Company, 1900 - 502 strani

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Stran 333 - At home the Ministers have neglected legislation ; aggravated the public distress by continual shocks to confidence; augmented the public expenditure and taxation for purposes not merely unnecessary but mischievous ; and plunged the finances, which were handed over to them in a state of singular prosperity, into a series of deficits unexampled in modern times.
Stran 376 - Education shall not render the person holding it incapable of being elected to, or of voting in, the Commons House of Parliament, and shall be deemed to be an office included in Schedule H. of the Representation of the People Act, 1867 ; in Schedule H.
Stran 342 - Peace Party — has sprung prematurely to the conclusion that wars may be considered as having closed their melancholy and miserable history, and that the affairs of the world may henceforth be conducted by methods more adapted to the dignity of man, more suited both to his strength and to his weakness, less likely to lead him out of the ways of duty, to stimulate his evil passions, to make him guilty before God for inflicting misery on his fellowcreatures.
Stran 42 - Eighth, by the Grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Stran 378 - ... it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to...
Stran 301 - I should be desirous, shortly before the commencement of the Session of 1875, to consider whether there would be advantage in my placing my services for a time at the disposal of the Liberal party, or whether I should then claim exemption from the duties I have hitherto discharged.
Stran 332 - Ireland were the party that maintained there an alien church, an unjust land law, and franchises inferior to our own ; and the true supporters of the union are those who firmly uphold the supreme authority of parliament, but exercise that authority to hind the three nations by the indissoluble tie of liberal and equal laws.
Stran 38 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Stran 352 - The Cabinet was forming in his mind ; Bradshaw was lying on the table. Before dinner-time the veteran statesman had kissed hands on his appointment as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was Prime Minister of England for the second time.
Stran 331 - A portion of its population is attempting to sever the constitutional tie which unites it to Great Britain in that bond which has favoured the power and prosperity of both. " It is hoped that all men of light and leading will resist this destructive doctrine.

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