| 1839 - 618 pages
...staple commodity of biography. To this was added the analogous circumstance of Lord Anson's silence both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords. With all these drawbacks, however, his biographer — chiefly from the extent and variety of his own... | |
| International peace society - 232 pages
...our own quarrels by an appeal to force, that the weakness of another state may be overcome [cheers]. Both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords, this party has taken up the question ; and I say, let us, at all events, establish this principle,... | |
| Gilbert Vale - Political scientists - 1841 - 242 pages
...conceived of, except by a very few. In 1769, Lord North, the English minister, obtained a good support both in the house of commons and in the house of lords ; and he determined to maintain the supremacy of the English government in all things ; and to prevent... | |
| Robert Christie - Québec (Province) - 1853 - 554 pages
...far back as 1828, to have been viciously administered. So late ' as the year 1835 it was admitted, both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords, on the ministerial as well as on the opposition benches, by men the most opposite in their opinions... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1864 - 1376 pages
...principles of extreme reserve which have been professed by tho right hon. Gentleman. On the contrary, both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords, Her Majesty's Government were urged again and again to lift up their voice on behalf of suffering Poland.... | |
| Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 436 pages
...himself unconsciously produces. Every contemporary account shows how great was the influence he exercised both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords. His ascendency in the cabinet is manifest by the deference paid to his opinion by Sir Robert Walpole... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...successful minister, but he had requisites for success which Lord Russell never possessed, strong majorities both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords. The loss the liberals have never possessed in the present century, and to this is to be ascribed in... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...successful minister, but he had requisites for success which Lord Russell never possessed, strong majorities both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords. The loss the liberals have never possessed in the present century, and to this is to be ascribed in... | |
| Robert Christie - Québec (Province) - 1866 - 566 pages
...so far back as 1828, to have been viciously administered. So late as the year 1835 it was admitted, both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords, on the ministerial as well as on the opposition benches, by men the most opposite in their opinions... | |
| Law - 1873 - 410 pages
...taught lawyers the rare art of thinking and judging for themselves. In Parliament, in earlier days, both in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords, the oratory of Sir R. Bethell and of Lord Westbury could make itself felt Unfortunately, the possession... | |
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