Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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الصفحة 219 - The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dissolution of social order.
الصفحة 219 - ... pride of a fatal consistency, but of history, of reason, of the ages which are past, of the signs of this most portentous time. Pronounce in a manner worthy of the expectation with which this great Debate has been anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. Renew the youth of the State. Save property divided against itself. Save the multitude, endangered by their own ungovernable passions.
الصفحة 219 - Save the greatest, and fairest, and most highly civilized community that ever existed, from calamities which may in a few days sweep away all the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdom and glory. The danger is terrible. The time is short.
الصفحة 99 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
الصفحة 386 - My dear Lord, — I am honoured with his Majesty's commands to acquaint your lordship that all difficulties to the arrangements in progress will be obviated by a declaration in the House of...
الصفحة 269 - This startling avowal gave grave offence to the reformers; and the assertion the speaker afterwards made, that he was an enemy to the measure, because it did not go far enough, was not calculated to appease their indignation. The House, on resolving itself into a Committee on the Civil List Bill, Messrs. Hume and O'Connell made as usual a faint opposition; another discussion on the Eeform Bill came on on the following day, which preceded one on the borough of Weymouth. Subsequently there was a debate...
الصفحة 218 - Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform that you may preserve. Now, therefore, while everything at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age, now, while the crash of the proudest throne of the continent is still resounding in our ears, now, while the roof of a British palace affords ignominious shelter to the exiled heir of forty kings...
الصفحة 342 - Garter, repaired to the east side of the theatre, where the Archbishop made the Recognition, and repeated the same at the south, west, and north sides of the theatre...
الصفحة 354 - To the consideration of this important question, the attention of parliament must necessarily again be called at the opening of the ensuing session ; and you may be assured of my unaltered desire to promote its settlement, by such improvements in the representation as may be found necessary for securing to my people the full enjoyment of their rights, which, in combination with those of the other orders of the state, are essential to the support of our free constitution.
الصفحة 80 - I deeply lament that in some districts of the country the property of my subjects has been endangered by combinations for the destruction of machinery, and that serious losses have been sustained through the acts of wicked incendiaries. I cannot view without grief and indignation the efforts which are industriously made to excite among...