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 Brougham Burke Cabinet Canningites Catholic Emancipation classes colleagues danger debate democratic dissolution Duke Durham Earl Grey election England English Europe favour February feeling Foreign Fox and Grey Fox's France franchise French French Revolution friends George Government Graham Grenville Grey to Holland Grey wrote honour House of Commons House of Lords Ireland January King King's Lady Grey Lambton Lansdowne leader letter Liberal Lord Durham Lord Grenville Lord Grey Lord Grey's Lord Holland Lord Howick Lord John Lord John Russell measure ment Ministry Napoleon never Northumberland November opinion opposition Palmerston Parliament Parliamentary Reform passed peace Peel peer-making peers Pitt Pitt's popular Portland Prime Minister Prince principle question Radical Reform Bill refused resignation Revolution rotten boroughs Russell Russia Scotland speech Stanley thought tion Tory vote Wellesley Wellington Whig party William wish writes
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304 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.
315 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.
115 ページ - Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a feu Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower.
51 ページ - Do not suffer yourselves to be lulled into a false security ; remember the proud fabric of the French monarchy. Not four years ago it stood founded, as it might seem, on the rock of time, force, and opinion, supported by the triple aristocracy of the church, the nobility, and the parliaments. They are crumbled into dust ; they are vanished from the earth. If this tremendous warning has no effect on the men of property in England ; if it does not open every eye, and raise every arm, you will deserve...
117 ページ - Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart...
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. At an age when most of those who...
238 ページ - It looked as if the new Whig Ministry would be ' wrecked at the bar.' Members asked each other at Brooks's that night, was this really the beginning of a new era, or only of a new disappointment, as in 1782, 1806, 1812 ? Nought's constant in the human race, Except the Whigs not getting into place. Meanwhile Grey was steadily building up the rest of him the Rolls, which has been often disbelieved. Croker, ii. 80, also tends to confirm Brougham's statement that the outgoing Ministers had warned the...
xv ページ - At twenty-three he had been thought worthy to be ranked with the veteran statesmen who appeared as the delegates of the British Commons, at the bar of the British nobility.
90 ページ - Infamous as these laws were, they were popular measures. The people, ay, the mass of the shopkeepers and working people, may be said to have approved them without understanding them. Such was their terror of the French regicides and democrats, such the fear that ' the throne and the altar ' would be destroyed, and that we should be ' deprived of our holy religion...
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.