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... means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lord † has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he represents , was not larger in the time of Edward the First than it is at present . The line of its walls , he assures ...
... means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lord † has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which he represents , was not larger in the time of Edward the First than it is at present . The line of its walls , he assures ...
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... means that ever supported a Cabinet . My honorable friend , the Member for the University of Oxford , tells us , that if we pass this law , England will soon be a republic . The reformed House of Commons will , ac- cording to him ...
... means that ever supported a Cabinet . My honorable friend , the Member for the University of Oxford , tells us , that if we pass this law , England will soon be a republic . The reformed House of Commons will , ac- cording to him ...
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... means , and not as ends . The end of government is the happiness of the people and I do not conceive that , in a country like this , the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of government in which the middle classes place ...
... means , and not as ends . The end of government is the happiness of the people and I do not conceive that , in a country like this , the happiness of the people can be promoted by a form of government in which the middle classes place ...
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... mean to say that a Tory Reform Bill will leave no anomalies in the representative system ? For my own part , I trouble myself not at all about anomalies , considered merely as anomalies . I would not take the trouble of lifting up my ...
... mean to say that a Tory Reform Bill will leave no anomalies in the representative system ? For my own part , I trouble myself not at all about anomalies , considered merely as anomalies . I would not take the trouble of lifting up my ...
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... means intend to encourage those chimerical hopes which the honorable and learned Member for Rye * , who has so much distinguished himself in this debate , has imputed to the Reformers . The people , he says , are for the bill , because ...
... means intend to encourage those chimerical hopes which the honorable and learned Member for Rye * , who has so much distinguished himself in this debate , has imputed to the Reformers . The people , he says , are for the bill , because ...
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Página 477 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Página 469 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Página 544 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Página 469 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 545 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ! Ho ! matrons of Lucerne ! Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls...
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Página 463 - Tall are the oaks whose acorns Drop in dark Auser's rill ; Fat are the stags that champ the boughs Of the Ciminian hill ; Beyond all streams Clitumnus Is to the herdsman dear ; Best of all pools the fowler loves The great Volsinian mere.