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... Parliament was constructed . But it is necessary for English readers to bear in mind that that Irish Parliament was , as ... boroughs out of the fact that there had been no petitions from the Irish people in favour of the measure . This ...
... Parliament was constructed . But it is necessary for English readers to bear in mind that that Irish Parliament was , as ... boroughs out of the fact that there had been no petitions from the Irish people in favour of the measure . This ...
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... election may with advantage be devoted to a consideration of some of the ... Parliamentary reform in 1867 may not improbably again prevail , and they may ... boroughs and to bring into strong relief the inequalities in the present ...
... election may with advantage be devoted to a consideration of some of the ... Parliamentary reform in 1867 may not improbably again prevail , and they may ... boroughs and to bring into strong relief the inequalities in the present ...
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and borough suffrage should be maintained , or why political power should be so unequally distributed that 47,000 people living in ten small English and Irish boroughs should return ten members to the House of Commons , while only nine ...
and borough suffrage should be maintained , or why political power should be so unequally distributed that 47,000 people living in ten small English and Irish boroughs should return ten members to the House of Commons , while only nine ...
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... boroughs are scheduled for disfranchisement , a considerable pro- . portion ... Parliament may be asked by a responsible Govern- ment to sanction an ... electoral districts , returning a single member each . Under such an arrangement no ...
... boroughs are scheduled for disfranchisement , a considerable pro- . portion ... Parliament may be asked by a responsible Govern- ment to sanction an ... electoral districts , returning a single member each . Under such an arrangement no ...
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... counties . If this were done , far from securing equality between the franchise in boroughs and counties , the ... Parliamentary borough . In the West Riding of Yorkshire , at present containing 1880 . 447 THE NEXT REFORM BILL .
... counties . If this were done , far from securing equality between the franchise in boroughs and counties , the ... Parliamentary borough . In the West Riding of Yorkshire , at present containing 1880 . 447 THE NEXT REFORM BILL .
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Page 93 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 287 - Cut me to pieces, Volsces ; men and lads, Stain all your edges on me. — Boy ! False hound ! If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Page 280 - Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...
Page 30 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 858 - As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of the earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant, But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because...
Page 270 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh. and dwelt among us.
Page 739 - OUT of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that great deep before our world begins Whereon the Spirit of God moves as he will — Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep, From that true world within the world we see, Whereof our world is but the bounding shore...
Page 739 - and that which should be man, From that one light no man can look upon, Drew to this shore lit by the suns and moons And all the shadows. 0 dear Spirit half-lost In thine own shadow and this fleshly sign That thou art thou — who wailest being born And banish'd into mystery, and the pain Of this divisible-indivisible world Among the numerable-innumerable Sun, sun, and sun, thro...
Page 858 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 518 - But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.