Lord Grey of the Reform Bill: Being the Life of Charles, Second Earl of GreyLongmans, Green and Company, 1920 - 413 ページ
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Althorp APPENDIX April aristocratic Belgian British Brooks's Brougham Burke Cabinet Canningites Catholic Emancipation Charles Grey classes Corresponding Society debate declared democratic Duke Duke of Portland Durham Earl Grey election England English Eton Europe favour feeling Foreign Fox and Grey Fox's Foxite France franchise French Revolution friends George Government Grenville Grey wrote honour House of Commons House of Lords Howick Ireland Jacobin January King King's Lambton Lansdowne letter Liberal Lord Grenville Lord Grey Lord Grey's Lord Holland Lord John Lord John Russell measure ment Ministry never Northumberland November opinion opposition Palmerston Parliament Parliamentary Reform passed peace Peel Peers Pitt Pitt's political popular Portland Prime Minister Prince principle question Radical Reform Bill refused resignation rotten boroughs Russell Russia Scotland Sheridan speech thought tion Tory trial Union vote Wellington Whig party wish writes Wyvill
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115 ページ - Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen. Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
306 ページ - I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure. By all you hold most dear, by all the ties that bind every one of us to our common order and our common country I solemnly adjure you, I warn you, I implore you, yea, on my bended knees I supplicate you, reject not this Bill.
294 ページ - I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. " I have been induced to resort to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people...
316 ページ - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
144 ページ - Hence the reckless impudence of the true punster; if he is to fail he may as well be hung for a sheep as for a Lamb (I find I have written that last word with a capital letter, in piety I will let it stay).
234 ページ - I will go still further, and say, that if at the present moment I had imposed upon me the duty of forming a Legislature for any country, and particularly for a country like this, in possession of great property of various descriptions...
xv ページ - Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.
360 ページ - ... the revenues of the Church of Ireland were larger than necessary for the religious and moral instruction of the persons belonging to that Church, and for the stability of the Church itself.
16 ページ - Rome ; so it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.
311 ページ - the middle classes who form the real and efficient mass of public opinion, and without whom the power of the gentry is nothing.