The Annals of Our Time: a Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, from the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837Macmillan, 1880 - 1034 pages |
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... King's death . The details of the interview current in society at the time were thus set down by Miss Wynn : " They reached Kensington Palace at about 5 : they knocked , they rang , they thumped for a considerable time before they could ...
... King's death . The details of the interview current in society at the time were thus set down by Miss Wynn : " They reached Kensington Palace at about 5 : they knocked , they rang , they thumped for a considerable time before they could ...
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... King - at - arms , with heralds , pursuivants , and other officials in their robes of state . proclamation read was uniform in phraseology with the declaration signed at yesterday's Privy Council . When Garter King - at - arms had ...
... King - at - arms , with heralds , pursuivants , and other officials in their robes of state . proclamation read was uniform in phraseology with the declaration signed at yesterday's Privy Council . When Garter King - at - arms had ...
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... King's Bench , and an indefinite number of persons to be named by the heir - presumptive , should carry on the government in the event of the Queen's death . 4. - Grand Junction Railway , from Liverpool to Birmingham , opened . 5. The King ...
... King's Bench , and an indefinite number of persons to be named by the heir - presumptive , should carry on the government in the event of the Queen's death . 4. - Grand Junction Railway , from Liverpool to Birmingham , opened . 5. The King ...
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... King of Hanover when Duke of Cumberland , on the ground of his inability to support the British Constitution , and the possibility there was of his using the money to the injury of his country , negatived by 97 to 62 votes . Died in ...
... King of Hanover when Duke of Cumberland , on the ground of his inability to support the British Constitution , and the possibility there was of his using the money to the injury of his country , negatived by 97 to 62 votes . Died in ...
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... King William . Perhaps its summit will be adorned by a figure which has become familiar to you . " At Dublin , he said : " The over- whelming kindness of my countrymen some- times now gives me the name of the Liberator : I have never ...
... King William . Perhaps its summit will be adorned by a figure which has become familiar to you . " At Dublin , he said : " The over- whelming kindness of my countrymen some- times now gives me the name of the Liberator : I have never ...
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Page 11 - Wales ; we, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of his late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London...
Page 32 - it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Page 295 - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting-point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 191 - In him I took leave of my first College, Trinity, which was so dear to me, and which held on its foundation so many who had been kind to me both when I was a boy, and all through my Oxford life.
Page 343 - Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they...
Page 297 - ... occupy, or fortify or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 459 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 439 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to...
Page 341 - In every regularly documented American merchant- vessel, the crew who navigate it will find their protection in the flag which is over them.
Page 343 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister ; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing...