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S3V0200P0_1782 | the former for the purpose of supervising and considering whatever modifications might be proposed, the other to give his decision as to any additional expense that might be occasioned by such modifications. | 1870 | null | 29,243 |
S3V0077P0_10563 | Baronet there were two taxes the remission of which would be of material benefit to Ireland; he alluded to the imposts upon sugar and glass; she could therefore the better bear an Income Tax, which, being derived chiefly from the land, would not fall with any severity upon the labouring classes. | 1840 | null | 437,058 |
S4V0020P0_25837 | The desire of the Government was to continue that state of things, one person presiding over the two bodies. | 1890 | 1894-01-12 | 529,753 |
S3V0068P0_5252 | I said, """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I am ready to agree to that. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1840 | null | 311,724 |
S3V0237P0_10819 | When Parliament was summoned earlier than usual, Lord Derby, writing to Mr. Layard, said— """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""In view of the reports which are likely to be current in this country, Her Majesty's Government think it desirable that you should be aware that this unusually early meeting of Parliament does not imply any intention on their part to depart from the policy of conditional neutrality which they have announced. | 1870 | null | 876,277 |
S3V0244P0_19463 | Friend the Member for South Norfolk. | 1870 | null | 1,051,920 |
S3V0156P0_28050 | The consequence has been that the importation of Irish butter had declined from 10, 000 casks weekly to 3, 030. | 1860 | null | 28,050 |
S3V0331P0_9653 | It seemed that by the magic of property, which turned sand into gold, the Moonlighter of Kerry would be in future the eldest son of the Treasury Bench, and especially of the First Lord himself. | 1880 | null | 1,586,294 |
S3V0085P0_605 | After the battle of Ferozeshah, an unfavourable opinion prevailed as to the equipment of the Bengal Artillery, and various discussions have arisen as to whether it is not of lighter calibre than it ought to be. | 1840 | null | 591,128 |
S2V0015P0_89 | The ports had been opened for barley, and since that period, barley had been at 52 s . | 1820 | null | 258,592 |
S2V0011P0_10630 | It having been believed, that Derry cathedral had no economy fund, and was no more than any other parish church in the diocess, this measure of creating one was resorted to. | 1820 | null | 209,367 |
S4V0043P0_21161 | It also appeared to him, as far as he had been able to understand it, that the effect of the Amendment proposed by the Lord Advocate would be this—that, whereas in classified parishes before the Bill came into operation, there was a deficit, and that deficit had to be filled up by other ratepayers, under the Amendment, if it was inserted and the Bill passed, that deficit would not be filled up by other ratepayers, but by the State; therefore, in so far, the holders of agricultural land would be benefited. | 1890 | 1896-08-04 | 966,723 |
S3V0162P0_25220 | He would see when the Bill was produced if it were possible, which he did not think it was, to reduce the proposition to an intelligible form. | 1860 | null | 173,107 |
S3V0233P0_26286 | In my opinion, the hon. and learned Member for Limerick utterly demolished on a former occasion the arguments of the simple Repeal Party. | 1870 | null | 809,053 |
S3V0085P0_10697 | I cannot efface from my memory the recollection which such a murder as that of the late Lord Norbury excited in my mind. | 1840 | null | 601,220 |
S1V0031P0_7627 | It could, if it should be found necessary to guard against the arts of designing men, be afterwards made a part of the Bill, —that no engagement contracted after this period, in violation of the provisions of the Bill, should be lawful. | 1810 | null | 111,878 |
S3V0166P0_30254 | It came over from Holland with the Revolution, and was, perhaps, the only misfortune attendant on; that great event. | 1860 | null | 289,879 |
S3V0276P0_3637 | On the contrary, I wish to point out that the Financial Advisers' of Egypt are not appointed by Her Majesty's Government. | 1880 | null | 362,432 |
S4V0041P0_3212 | Members having distinctly defied the authority of the Chair, and having persisted in so doing, I must, in consequence, name them to the House. | 1890 | 1896-05-21 | 897,221 |
S3V0181P0_20811 | I say that this particular practice of capturing merchant vessels is a belligerent operation systematically aimed against the general public and national resources of the enemy; and the object of the argument which I have offered to the House is to show that the loss falls, on the whole, on the national interests and the general commercial interests of the country, rather than on individuals. | 1860 | null | 616,365 |
S3V0312P0_24085 | I hope there will be sufficient interval to allow hon. | 1880 | null | 1,116,270 |
S3V0293P0_24834 | The whole tenour of the management, they were further told, had been rather to discourage than encourage the crofters. | 1880 | null | 725,752 |
S3V0107P0_16411 | These Bills were for that purpose; and they had passed through their stages without any opportunity being given for the introduction of clauses protective of the public interest; or for the proprietors of parallel lines to state their objections to the measure. | 1840 | null | 980,949 |
S3V0220P0_989 | The last Act made no change whatever with regard to 12 and 9 years men enlisted under the former Act. | 1870 | null | 474,510 |
S3V0322P0_25006 | """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" What would be thought in this country if a magistrate from the Bench made a speech in regard to the conduct of a person whom he was immediately afterwards going to try, and who, when the prisoner denied his statement that he, the prisoner, had uttered a deliberate falsehood, expressed his willingness to withdraw the statement? | 1880 | null | 1,372,223 |
S3V0124P0_14728 | He had listened with great satisfaction to the speech of the right hon. | 1850 | null | 273,333 |
S3V0263P0_1720 | The Constitution of Bulgaria has been laid before Parliament, and does not, therefore, seem to lack publicity. | 1880 | null | 174,046 |
S3V0079P0_8603 | The State restrains her right of synodical assembly; it fetters in many ways her original and organic powers; it imposes limits upon her discipline and laws; and even the expression of any of her doctrines cannot be varied without its knowledge and assent. | 1840 | null | 476,538 |
S3V0175P0_3482 | He believed that the supervision of convicts in Western Australia was extremely good; but he had been informed by Colonel Henderson, who had the charge of penal discipline in that colony, that the rule requiring the convicts to call upon the police once a month, worked so badly that it had to be abandoned. | 1860 | null | 449,723 |
S3V0027P0_5029 | He contended, however, further, that the Trinity House should never have been permitted at any period to lease out their powers, because by doing so they had lost their control, and while they had made considerable reductions in the charges for their lights, the public were saddled with the higher scale of charge by individual leaseholders. | 1830 | null | 544,154 |
S2V0012P0_15671 | The fact was, that a very large portion of the shares when they came out were distributed among the public—to those who had applied for them, by themselves or their friends. | 1820 | null | 234,770 |
S3V0276P0_2757 | The hon. | 1880 | null | 361,552 |
S3V0018P0_9863 | He would compare them to children; and no rational being, after subjecting children to a strict rule, would at once indulge them with unlimited freedom. | 1830 | null | 388,153 |
S3V0025P0_13896 | This district contained a most influential and numerous population, amounting to 14, 000, and the representative of this large number of persons had been five times expelled the Assembly of Quebec. | 1830 | null | 518,978 |
S3V0069P0_18098 | But the same principle had been adopted in, he believed, 1836, with regard to colonial sugar, and subsequently with respect to rum. | 1840 | null | 343,705 |
S3V0140P0_16841 | There was no obligation of law, no custom of social life, no observance of religion which compelled men to close their shops at a stated hour; yet it had been done in deference to the feelings and wishes of the employed, and by means of the good sense and humanity of the employer. | 1850 | null | 605,411 |
S3V0079P0_11612 | He had that day presented a petition from Harold's-cross upon the subject, couched certainly in strong language—setting forth the petitioners' objections to the endowment of Maynooth, and the grounds of their objection. | 1840 | null | 479,547 |
S2V0016P0_17226 | The House should recollect, that when the sums now paid to the several members of the royal family were voted, the state of our paper currency had rendered them much less in real, than they were in nominal, amount; but now that the currency was restored to a proper standard, those sums were much beyond, in actual value, what would have been voted if the state of the currency had been the same as it was at this day. | 1820 | null | 293,417 |
S2V0018P0_21738 | It had been found necessary, therefore, to suspend the system pursued' in this country, and provide a jury of a peculiar description, suited to the nature of the population. | 1820 | null | 316,245 |
S4V0046P0_22432 | In the latter case, as the hon. | 1890 | 1897-03-01 | 1,027,944 |
S3V0250P0_12370 | He appealed to the right hon. | 1880 | null | 12,370 |
S4V0030P0_15949 | If you do you are sure to be beaten. | 1890 | 1895-02-18 | 648,683 |
S3V0123P0_4078 | The proposition of the hon. | 1850 | null | 237,921 |
S3V0147P0_8035 | If great public evils existed in this matter, of which there could be no doubt, surely it was of importance that they should proceed with the discussion of a, Bill which sought to apply a remedy. | 1850 | null | 784,093 |
S1V0012P0_381 | Sir H. Burrard had the command of the army; he was present for a great part of the time in the hottest of the engagement, and had a duty to perform, of which he could not divest himself. | 1800 | null | 40,109 |
S4V0011P0_18221 | That again, I think, everyone will admit is a pretty close Estimate on a total of £55, 000, 000. | 1890 | 1893-04-24 | 435,077 |
S3V0002P0_9480 | Let the noble Lord, then, console himself, for his measures did not deserve, on that account, the same amount of condemnation as the measures which had preceded them, and been sanctioned by the right hon. | 1830 | null | 85,968 |
S3V0110P0_2534 | thought the House already over-wrought with questions of the kind; and they, therefore, should be careful of assuming a power that did not belong to them. | 1850 | null | 42,004 |
S3V0018P0_12732 | When he said this, he referred principally to those in authority, and with whom the China trade was, at present, carried on. | 1830 | null | 391,022 |
S3V0138P0_8404 | There cannot be an army more loyal, better disposed, or more ready to do their duty. | 1850 | null | 539,600 |
S3V0324P0_4433 | No, Sir; I do not propose to extend the Carriage Tax to Ireland; but I will deal with that in a moment. | 1880 | null | 1,409,226 |
S3V0135P0_18042 | He (Mr. Adderley) would rather say, let us trust to that spirit which loves its own institutions, which goes out with every band of emigrants that leaves this country for our distant dependencies, and which would ever adapt itself to the local circumstance with which it had to deal, and which were but imperfectly understood in this country. | 1850 | null | 472,075 |
S3V0228P0_10651 | England had now a plethora of wealth. | 1870 | null | 668,549 |
S3V0064P0_1497 | Had the wars alluded to, been wars of defence—wars to preserve either the country's independence, or the nation's honour wars such as that memorable war which had been brought to a glorious conclusion by the genius of the noble Duke now present | 1840 | null | 230,112 |
S3V0164P0_3038 | The schedule which had been inserted was proposed so late in the passage of the Bill that it had not received due attention in the other House, and it required a great deal of examination before it should be permitted to become law. | 1860 | null | 207,857 |
S3V0145P0_21752 | However, it had been at the India House for a month, and there was, he believed, a copy of it in the hands of his right hon. | 1850 | null | 747,902 |
S3V0220P0_5987 | The Vote on account of the British Museum will come first, but I do not anticipate it will take up much of the time of the House. | 1870 | null | 479,508 |
S3V0144P0_25901 | Had this been done, the Emperor might have thought proper to reprimand Yeh, and thus afford the most satisfactory reparation. | 1850 | null | 718,355 |
S3V0224P0_6389 | They paid the following contributions in monthly instalments extending over a period of 10 months—not exceeding 30 days' pay (the sum being fixed by the commanding officer) for the mess, and for the band 20 days' pay. | 1870 | null | 574,465 |
S3V0105P0_12628 | In 1693 Mr. Harley said, on this subject— """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1840 | null | 957,967 |
S3V0034P0_552 | At present, a great number of causes were kept out of Court by the impossibility of hearing them, and of doing justice in them. | 1830 | null | 672,044 |
S3V0031P0_3100 | Baronet was a Member. | 1830 | null | 618,666 |
S1V0011P0_8626 | that 'no bull, rescript, decree, 'nor other missive from the see of Rome, 'shall be received, published, or otherwise 'put in force, without the authority of the 'government. ' | 1800 | null | 34,119 |
S3V0220P0_1093 | the 250 times necessary to get the grant; of the 1, 400, 000 between seven and thirteen, 500, 000 had not attended half a-year, or the 250 attendances necessary for the grant. | 1870 | null | 474,614 |
S3V0005P0_901 | But that intention, it appeared from the same source, had been defeated by the representations of the Government of this country; and yet, from another part of the noble Duke's speech, we did not, nor, indeed, ought we if we could, according to the noble Duke, prevent these circumstances from taking place, upon which these supposed ulterior proceedings were to be founded. | 1830 | null | 139,803 |
S3V0092P0_16018 | He, of course, saw that the election of guardians had become a complete farce. | 1840 | null | 738,326 |
S3V0234P0_18656 | The Committee would observe that the item of Secret Service came in the Estimates under the branches connected with England only—there were no charges under that head for Ireland or Scotland. | 1870 | null | 829,164 |
S3V0309P0_8895 | Why, that is precisely our complaint—namely, that it all depends upon the composition of the Board of Guardians—whether the Board is a Tory Board or a Nationalist Board— whether there is too much or too little interference. | 1880 | null | 1,020,517 |
S1V0019P0_897 | It was said they were asked to do nothing more than not to withdraw their assistance. | 1810 | null | 10,236 |
S3V0077P0_18875 | Member for Lambeth moved the adoption of a differential duty of 10 and the House divided, the numbers being | 1840 | null | 445,370 |
S3V0161P0_27422 | If it should state that the accounts are satisfactorily kept, I shall admit that I was wrong; but if the contrary should prove to be the fact I shall have no reason to regret having called the attention of the House to the subject. | 1860 | null | 143,951 |
S3V0150P0_17392 | rose to order. | 1850 | null | 874,501 |
S3V0232P0_13126 | No man who respected himself would ever enter into a competition, if he knew that, though he might prove himself superior to others, he was still liable to be set aside. | 1870 | null | 768,359 |
S3V0078P0_15035 | A law had, however, since been passed, which distinctly defined the offences only cognizable by Judges of Assize, and removed all the objections that did exist to the payment of criminal prosecutions out of the public funds. | 1840 | null | 461,430 |
S3V0166P0_25737 | Gentlemen opposite were very confident in their power to effect a compromise, and it had been said that his Bill was the only obstruction to the settlement of this question, and that it was only necessary to get rid of the measure in order to effect this object. | 1860 | null | 285,362 |
S3V0192P0_23616 | Member might be divided under two heads—first, how property should be rated; secondly, what kind of property should he subject to rates. | 1860 | null | 874,766 |
S3V0192P0_3000 | Since the passing of the Emancipation Act Ireland has made progress, social, political, material. | 1860 | null | 854,150 |
S3V0204P0_10874 | Friend the Member for Morpeth (Sir George Grey) presided, has had a material effect in influencing his judgment on the subject. | 1870 | null | 139,128 |
S3V0058P0_11519 | It will be seen the church-rate for the whole amounted to 22 , and the loss sustained by law charges and sale of goods below real value make the account 35 14 in the whole. | 1840 | null | 120,531 |
S4V0056P0_13533 | How many men can engage in an ordinary argument on an important subject without showing warmth? | 1890 | 1898-04-25 | 1,221,143 |
S4V0041P0_16062 | 4d. | 1890 | 1896-06-15 | 910,071 |
S3V0186P0_9800 | I wish my hon. and learned Friend had given us his authority for that statement. | 1860 | null | 719,927 |
S3V0070P0_14736 | The tithe remains to—it belongs to the nation. | 1840 | null | 362,040 |
S3V0183P0_14475 | If his information was correct, that change had already commenced; for it was stated that immediately after the bombardment, when the crews were landed from the men-of-war in the roadsteads for the purpose of putting out the flames, the seamen belonging to the British fleet were requested to return on board their ships, while the assistance of the American sailors was warmly welcomed. | 1860 | null | 668,079 |
S3V0061P0_13427 | Hon. | 1840 | null | 179,391 |
S3V0167P0_19489 | Gentleman their Chairman. | 1860 | null | 312,775 |
S3V0197P0_6764 | The noble Marquess has alluded to the 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cry, and has said that he thinks it is fast fading away. | 1860 | null | 997,214 |
S3V0310P0_21346 | But our Irish policy is not confined to an alteration of criminal procedure— | 1880 | null | 1,055,059 |
S4V0031P0_2560 | As recently as 1886 the right hon. | 1890 | 1895-02-28 | 660,886 |
S3V0087P0_9734 | Then see what do these admissions amount to? | 1840 | null | 641,924 |
S3V0336P0_8464 | MR. | 1880 | null | 1,719,853 |
S3V0077P0_8736 | There may have been some, though very few, who thought differently, and believed that they might safely be left to the affectionate solicitude of parents and guardians—these objections were overruled, and the Legislature has, in various enactments, asserted the principle for which I now contend | 1840 | null | 435,231 |
S3V0220P0_19130 | … | 1870 | null | 492,651 |
S3V0146P0_17863 | said, that he had voted for the Government when this matter was last before the House, but that he could not support them now. | 1850 | null | 770,881 |
S3V0147P0_6973 | The House then received from the noble Viscount at the head of the Government, an assurance that this should not be drawn into a precedent, and being satisfied with that assurance he was one of those who voted with the noble Viscount, and against the Resolution, expressing reprobation of the conduct of the Government. | 1850 | null | 783,031 |
S3V0192P0_26331 | Gentleman's Bill was brought under the consideration of the Select Committee it contained two great proposals. | 1860 | null | 877,481 |
S3V0042P0_9452 | So that the House could not expect any officer to serve her Majesty and her Government except only when power was held by a certain party. | 1830 | null | 836,605 |
S3V0160P0_13522 | The illness of Mr. Anderson, at the close of last Session, prevented the matter being taken in hand at the time, but the question would certainly be attended to during the recess. | 1860 | null | 106,157 |
S3V0028P0_16688 | The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath. | 1830 | null | 575,103 |
S3V0300P0_6664 | Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. | 1880 | null | 814,769 |
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