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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... hands the per- formance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price - that condition which all their ... hand than have taken such a course as that taken by the noble and learned lord . The noble duke is a man of honour and ...
... hands the per- formance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price - that condition which all their ... hand than have taken such a course as that taken by the noble and learned lord . The noble duke is a man of honour and ...
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... hands of the Tories I would not give an orange - peel for her life . If some of the low miscreants of the party got round her Majesty , and had the mix- ing of the Royal bowl at night , I fear she would have a long sleep . " - O'Connell ...
... hands of the Tories I would not give an orange - peel for her life . If some of the low miscreants of the party got round her Majesty , and had the mix- ing of the Royal bowl at night , I fear she would have a long sleep . " - O'Connell ...
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... hands . Barbes was sentenced to death , but afterwards respited ; the others to various periods of transportation and imprisonment . 12. Mr. Goulburn's motion for the post- ponement of the Penny Postage Bill defeated by a majority of ...
... hands . Barbes was sentenced to death , but afterwards respited ; the others to various periods of transportation and imprisonment . 12. Mr. Goulburn's motion for the post- ponement of the Penny Postage Bill defeated by a majority of ...
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... hand . ( The entire assembly responded to the appeal . ) There are hearts in those hands . I tell you , that if necessity required , there would be swords in them ! " ( Great cheering . ) 6. The Emperor of China issues an edict putting ...
... hand . ( The entire assembly responded to the appeal . ) There are hearts in those hands . I tell you , that if necessity required , there would be swords in them ! " ( Great cheering . ) 6. The Emperor of China issues an edict putting ...
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... hand from his right breast , presented it across the one he had already fired , which he had in his right hand , and fired again , taking very deliberate aim . " Several persons at once rushed upon him . He was then calm and col- lected ...
... hand from his right breast , presented it across the one he had already fired , which he had in his right hand , and fired again , taking very deliberate aim . " Several persons at once rushed upon him . He was then calm and col- lected ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...