The life and times of the right hon. John BrightCassell, 1883 - 688 pages |
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... John Bright has done much to familiarise its name all over the world . It is a place of great antiquity , and of Saxon origin ; but sixty or seventy years ago it was small and unimportant . When Lord John Russell introduced his Reform ...
... John Bright has done much to familiarise its name all over the world . It is a place of great antiquity , and of Saxon origin ; but sixty or seventy years ago it was small and unimportant . When Lord John Russell introduced his Reform ...
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... Lord John Russell proposed his first scheme of Reform . The inhabitants of Rochdale , Tories as well as Liberals , when they discovered that the Reform Bill did not provide for the representation of their town in Par- liament , formed a ...
... Lord John Russell proposed his first scheme of Reform . The inhabitants of Rochdale , Tories as well as Liberals , when they discovered that the Reform Bill did not provide for the representation of their town in Par- liament , formed a ...
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... Lord Russell . It did not , like the for- mer bills , diminish the number of members , and the opposition considered this a concession and improvement ; and on the third reading the majority numbered 116 , and the bill was sent up to ...
... Lord Russell . It did not , like the for- mer bills , diminish the number of members , and the opposition considered this a concession and improvement ; and on the third reading the majority numbered 116 , and the bill was sent up to ...
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... Sir Robert Peel had his 390 or 400 men , and Lord John Russell his 270 or 280 men - the very first time I got up and spoke as the Member for Stockport , I declared I came there to do something— to repeal the Corn Laws , and I would know ...
... Sir Robert Peel had his 390 or 400 men , and Lord John Russell his 270 or 280 men - the very first time I got up and spoke as the Member for Stockport , I declared I came there to do something— to repeal the Corn Laws , and I would know ...
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... Lords by 168 to 95 - majority 72. A similar amendment was carried in the House of Commons on the same evening by a majority of 91. Lord John Russell , on the 6th of February , 1842 , moved a resolution against the alteration in the Corn ...
... Lords by 168 to 95 - majority 72. A similar amendment was carried in the House of Commons on the same evening by a majority of 91. Lord John Russell , on the 6th of February , 1842 , moved a resolution against the alteration in the Corn ...
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Page 55 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed ; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire and talked the night away, Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
Page 114 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 321 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 515 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened; Listen to this simple story, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Page 63 - Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land - Good Night!
Page 187 - The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 187 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Page 560 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 358 - Restless it rolls, now fix'd, and now anon Flashing afar, and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Page 440 - Lordships' attention to these petitions. In furtherance of this object, he submitted to their Lordships a resolution, to the effect that the House should resolve itself into a committee to consider the state of the...