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... - known accents of the respected doorkeeper , " Who goes home ? " The Cabinet is the Government , and while some of the members are in the House of Commons , others adorn the House of Lords . As a rule the Inside the House . 7.
... - known accents of the respected doorkeeper , " Who goes home ? " The Cabinet is the Government , and while some of the members are in the House of Commons , others adorn the House of Lords . As a rule the Inside the House . 7.
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... Cabinet The does not constitute more than a fourth part of those whom a change of Ministry deprives of office . members of it are more immediately responsible for the conduct of public affairs , their deliberations are always ...
... Cabinet The does not constitute more than a fourth part of those whom a change of Ministry deprives of office . members of it are more immediately responsible for the conduct of public affairs , their deliberations are always ...
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... Cabinet , and which may require instant decision , he is to decide— upon instant communication with his colleagues sitting by him , if he be courteously inclined , but he is to decide with or without communication with them , and with ...
... Cabinet , and which may require instant decision , he is to decide— upon instant communication with his colleagues sitting by him , if he be courteously inclined , but he is to decide with or without communication with them , and with ...
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... cabinet , was the aspirant for parliamentary laurels known to fame . In the world of fashion and of literature he had already become notorious for the piquancy and satire of his novels . The speaker also was a dandy - there were dandies ...
... cabinet , was the aspirant for parliamentary laurels known to fame . In the world of fashion and of literature he had already become notorious for the piquancy and satire of his novels . The speaker also was a dandy - there were dandies ...
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... Cabinet as are entitled to it by three years ' services , and whose circumstances require it . Once more there was a turn in the wheel , and Mr. friends returned in 1866 to power . He resumed his position at the Home Office - which ...
... Cabinet as are entitled to it by three years ' services , and whose circumstances require it . Once more there was a turn in the wheel , and Mr. friends returned in 1866 to power . He resumed his position at the Home Office - which ...
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British Senators: Or Political Sketches, Past and Present (1869) James Ewing Ritchie No preview available - 2008 |
British Senators: Or, Political Sketches, Past and Present J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 121 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 393 - Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year.
Page 20 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 26 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With...
Page 350 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 331 - Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right, Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave, Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind.
Page 308 - I inquired what countryman he was; they replied, 'twas more than they knew. Fourthly, I demanded whence he came ; their answer was, they could not tell. And, fifthly, I asked whither he went; and they replied, they knew nothing of the matter,— and this is all I could learn.
Page 8 - Cabinet includes the following ten members of the administration : the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the five Secretaries of State.
Page 352 - Perhaps you will like to hear the impression the House makes upon me. I do not wonder that so many distinguished men have failed in it. The speaking required is of a very peculiar kind : the House loves good sense and joking, and nothing else ; and the object of its utter aversion is that species of eloquence which may be called Philippian. There are not three men from whom a fine simile or sentiment would be tolerated ; all attempts of the kind are punished with general laughter.
Page 51 - There was something very remarkable in his countenance — the commandments were written on his face, and I have often told him there was not a crime he might not commit with impunity, as no judge or jury who saw him, would give the smallest degree of credit to any evidence against him: there was in his look a calm settled love of all that was honourable and good — an air of wisdom and of sweetness; you saw at once that he was a great man, whom nature had intended for a leader of human beings;...