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S3V0029P0_2846 | Now, when the Bill of 1807 was introduced, Counsel, clients, mortgagees, owners of estates, ship-owners, all parties engaged in the traffic, even the Corporation of Liverpool—for those venerable bodies took part in the opposition—and Jamaica planters all flocked to the Bar of their Lordships' House, to pray their Lordships not to annihilate their commerce by cutting off the source of their trade. | 1830 | null | 579,315 |
S3V0026P0_10126 | Did not his politics and his agitation, by which he meant his active politics, here stand him in need? | 1830 | null | 531,639 |
S3V0147P0_7165 | said, that it would be difficult to satisfy such a general enemy of Boards as the hon. | 1850 | null | 783,223 |
S3V0234P0_28074 | asked the Secretary of State for War, If he would explain to the House why the Adjutants of Engineer Volunteer Corps are not placed in the same position as regards pay as the Adjutants of Rifle Corps, and why the allowance for forage is altered under the Army and Reserve Forces Circular of 1877; and, why they are debarred from the privilege of recruiting? | 1870 | null | 838,582 |
S3V0150P0_1585 | Eternal enmity against every petty agent concerned against us or our allies will never answer. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1850 | null | 858,694 |
S3V0169P0_8862 | Connected with the same matter there was another statement which, coming from the quarter it did, he might perhaps pass unnoticed. | 1860 | null | 324,477 |
S3V0243P0_23351 | Those privileges had been asserted quite as much by the forbearance of hon. | 1870 | null | 1,027,444 |
S2V0002P0_22492 | He would not, to show the danger of confiding too much in them, appeal to the experience of history; but he would call on the House to look to modern times, and they would see the destinies of one of the chief nations of Europe changed three times, either by the defection or active interference of the military. | 1820 | null | 41,624 |
S3V0311P0_4661 | Members themselves—to appeal to them to consider who they are, | 1880 | null | 1,066,794 |
S3V0245P0_16135 | I need not add that he kept up an Army solely to maintain the despotism at which he aimed. | 1870 | null | 1,077,850 |
S3V0023P0_9649 | The present Ministers were, in his opinion, acting on Tory principles, and he repeated, that the people now began to think, that greater concessions would be made to them by a government apparently more violently Tory than the present. | 1830 | null | 476,127 |
S3V0211P0_25418 | said, that on the passing of the English Act infinite trouble was taken to secure the attendance of children during the whole time a school was open, and if they did not attend the religious instruction other instruction was provided. | 1870 | null | 335,718 |
S3V0334P0_6791 | How did Daly obtain Pigott's address? | 1880 | null | 1,658,301 |
S3V0127P0_13972 | he should be ashamed to bow to those institutions merely for fear some other institution in that more powerful country might possibly be endangered if justice was done to the weaker country. | 1850 | null | 311,163 |
S4V0043P0_17527 | The more a line was used, the more traffic it got, the more permanent it became in its character, for it received more attention. | 1890 | 1896-07-30 | 963,089 |
S4V0031P0_21843 | Friend had alluded to the five years' system. | 1890 | 1895-03-19 | 680,169 |
S3V0305P0_18038 | In the end all the audience were standing on the forms, which led to the remark by someone present—""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""My friends, I think we had better all sit down, and then we shall just be where we began. | 1880 | null | 936,331 |
S3V0163P0_3559 | But their Lordships would learn with no slight degree of surprise and regret (he might, perhaps, have used a stronger word), that when the time of examination appointed came, the answer obtained was not an admission to that competitive examination, but a statement that, in consequence of the varied climates which medical officers of Her Majesty's army had to encounter in the European and Colonial possessions of the British Crown, it was not thought advisable to subject Natives of India to the chances of service, out of their own country, and that in consequence it had been decided that such Native gentlemen should not be permitted to compete for appointments in the general military service. | 1860 | null | 184,683 |
S3V0216P0_12250 | As regarded woods, he knew that in many parts of his county trees were constantly planted for no other purpose than to shelter the land, and were utterly valueless as far as producing an annual return, but inasmuch as through the shelter they afforded the land, the adjoining fields were more productive and consequently were rated higher than they would be without this shelter, it would be unfair to rate such timber separately, as it already indirectly paid rates, and he thought they were entitled to know upon what principle it was proposed to rate that kind of property. | 1870 | null | 415,337 |
S3V0220P0_6825 | Friend must feel that it is rather premature to press me for any more distinct answer to the question than that. | 1870 | null | 480,346 |
S3V0336P0_23330 | It is several thousands of pounds. | 1880 | null | 1,734,719 |
S3V0006P0_19076 | He did not care whether the Bill passed or not. | 1830 | null | 177,229 |
S3V0215P0_4510 | """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Is this an isolated case? | 1870 | null | 380,019 |
S3V0179P0_3143 | With regard to making long speeches, he was afraid that was a complaint that was often made of persons who made them other than in revising barristers' courts, and he thought that could hardly be made a ground for committal. | 1860 | null | 563,683 |
S3V0277P0_24517 | He thought the right hon. and learned Gentleman had already made a mistake in the first concession he had made to the hon. | 1880 | null | 411,744 |
S3V0336P0_3306 | As the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in November, unless we have a large proportion of Scotch Members on the Committee for the purpose, this matter, in which the Scotch people take the keenest interest, will not receive adequate investigation. | 1880 | null | 1,714,695 |
S3V0272P0_7533 | Members opposite; but it went a great deal too far for all of those who had a strong desire to see the Act successfully worked. | 1880 | null | 330,349 |
S3V0038P0_22148 | It was also worthy of remark, that another anomaly had taken place, and that Mr. Urquhart, who was on his way home, and who was not in the diplomatic service, had been taken out of the situation to which he was originally appointed in that country, and placed at the head of a department of considerable importance at Constantinople. | 1830 | null | 767,896 |
S3V0169P0_20263 | Remembering, as I do, bow earnestly and cordially the noble Viscount at the head of the Government, has in days past advocated the Greek cause, I cannot but feel assured, that had he now held the seals of the Foreign Office, the present difficulties would not have occurred, and I am even led to doubt whether the noble Viscount really knows the whole truth in regard to the conduct of that Department. | 1860 | null | 335,878 |
S3V0201P0_13637 | He need not say that the moral effects of these improvements would also be very great. | 1870 | null | 69,548 |
S3V0335P0_20768 | They toss about in their beds, and they are sleepless for nearly a week. | 1880 | null | 1,701,345 |
S4V0070P0_8512 | I do not propose to lay the correspondence before the House, but the honourable Member can see it at the Colonial Office if he desires to do so. | 1890 | 1899-04-27 | 1,329,529 |
S3V0185P0_3266 | Fugitives heard of in many districts. | 1860 | null | 686,499 |
S3V0327P0_23654 | Member for North Aberdeen, and if it were carried, he should feel it his duty to resist by every possible means the passing of the Bill. | 1880 | null | 1,511,830 |
S3V0206P0_20304 | Have we a right to say that we have abundance, and are likely to enjoy abundance for the rest of our lives, and therefore we decline to put ourselves to inconvenience for the sake of those who are to come after us, no matter whether it is our duty to do so or not? | 1870 | null | 202,375 |
S3V0083P0_16736 | Gentleman's speech on the silk trade, in which the principle of free trade was enunciated, as well as another speech in which a contrary principle was maintained on the subject of corn. | 1840 | null | 563,976 |
S3V0167P0_17934 | He could not but think, that if the noble Lord the First Minister were now living in privacy, they would be inclined in the embarrassment brought upon them to do all which they could to withdraw him from his retirement, and to seek him of all men as the fittest to decide for them this difficult question. | 1860 | null | 311,220 |
S3V0110P0_12339 | , still speaking on the question of order, wished to ask whether, having given notice of a Motion on the question of the Speaker leaving the chair, and having distinctly stated that although the hon. | 1850 | null | 51,809 |
S3V0259P0_18342 | Now, he, for one, entirely disagreed with that proposal, and would point out that the Volunteer Force was formed for the defence of this country, and for that alone. | 1880 | null | 133,619 |
S3V0322P0_10518 | Gentlemen thought he had gone too far in saying that that melancholy incident was against those deep-lying principles, he had on his side the high authority of Mr. Burke, who in 1793 said— ''If the hearts of the people are not with the hands of the soldiery, you may call your Constitution what you please; hut, in reality, it merely consists of three parts—Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery, and nothing else. | 1880 | null | 1,357,735 |
S3V0181P0_13448 | No copy of those proceedings has reached me, and of course it is not in my power to express any opinion with respect to them. | 1860 | null | 609,002 |
S3V0261P0_14930 | There was, in his opinion, nothing more dangerous than that a Government should extort from Parliament the unconstitutional powers they now possessed—for many Conservative Members were unwilling to intrust them with the exercise of those powers—and show that they were afraid to put them in operation. | 1880 | null | 158,676 |
S3V0025P0_8621 | The latter was the just and natural result of the neglect which had been shown of the interests of Ireland. | 1830 | null | 513,703 |
S3V0244P0_1371 | The practice of ordinary burial has become interwoven with the legislative arrangements of the country, and is closely connected with various safeguards respecting death, with the statistics of death, and with the evidence of death. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1870 | null | 1,033,828 |
S3V0044P0_14699 | Baronet abandoned that part of his proposition; thus leaving, as it were, to the Governor-general the sole power of proposing, or rather of originating, such laws as might be deemed necessary for the government of the province. | 1830 | null | 859,905 |
S3V0239P0_19414 | He had made inquiries that day of a large firm of tobacco brokers in the City, and he ascertained from their circulars that in 1863 the price of tobacco stalks varied from 2 10 to 3 2 ; whereas in April, 1868, the price of the same qualities was put down at 2 to 3 | 1870 | null | 941,181 |
S2V0024P0_2852 | After this explanation, he thought it could not be maintained that the Act of Parliament was not sufficiently distinct and definite on the subject. | 1830 | null | 41,563 |
S3V0309P0_7080 | But after all, Mr. Courtney, it is not the law we complain of so much— | 1880 | null | 1,018,702 |
S3V0224P0_10489 | The course which the Government were taking in trying to force the hon. | 1870 | null | 578,565 |
S3V0185P0_2179 | still it allowed the landlord to prevent any claim by restraining the tenant from making any particular improvement. | 1860 | null | 685,412 |
S3V0199P0_3149 | They have suddenly assumed that a great change was about to occur in their condition—a change which, if it should be accomplished, would weaken and perhaps destroy the amount of civilization which they already possess, and which, if carried to its last consequences, would resolve society into its original elements. | 1870 | null | 3,149 |
S4V0033P0_9597 | There were a large number of gentlemen who, though very strongly in favour of abolishing what they called the privileges of the Church, were not in favour of taking away her property; and it was passible that other gentlemen might take a precisely converse view. | 1890 | 1895-05-06 | 720,311 |
S3V0200P0_22770 | In this way, at the end of 30 years, £300, 000, 000 of debt would be paid off, which, added to the Terminable Annuities expiring in that time, one-half the existing National Debt would be cleared off. | 1870 | null | 50,231 |
S3V0166P0_6804 | She would, no doubt, be a very valuable and very efficient vessel for our Channel defences. | 1860 | null | 266,429 |
S3V0266P0_15268 | Then, after the Crimean War, came the Indian Mutiny; then successive European wars, as well as the great American War, terminating, in 1870, with the Franco-German War. | 1880 | null | 253,407 |
S3V0087P0_5243 | The rule was, undoubtedly, that no person in that Parliament who was not present could protest. | 1840 | null | 637,433 |
S3V0083P0_20852 | Baronet the Member for Southwark was still more calculated to excite uneasiness. | 1840 | null | 568,092 |
S4V0036P0_6647 | He was sorry there were no more of such harbours and breakwaters on our coast, and therefore he appealed to the hon. | 1890 | 1895-08-20 | 771,864 |
S3V0281P0_16516 | Member the information. | 1880 | null | 514,162 |
S3V0002P0_4713 | It is this: —That the pensions should be taken by seniority according to the date of the grant, and that those which amount to 75, 000 , standing at the head of the whole number, shall be placed on the Civil List; so that the public shall gain the advantage as the others fall in. | 1830 | null | 81,201 |
S3V0280P0_6501 | I shall be perfectly prepared to place all the materials which are in the possession of myself and others in the hands of the Prime Minister, in order that he may judge of their nature, if he will only tell me the character of the tribunal which he purposes shall make the Inquiry? | 1880 | null | 475,721 |
S2V0010P0_5934 | and gallant officer, formerly a member of that House, a man as highly respected as he was universally known—he meant sir Herbert Taylor. | 1820 | null | 183,926 |
S3V0124P0_8859 | In truth, these men were not the persons whom the hon. | 1850 | null | 267,464 |
S3V0229P0_21942 | Gentleman stated that the position of affairs was critical, and I am sure that I have no desire to press the Government for any explanations which might cause them any embarrassment in the present condition of affairs; but, at the same time, it seems to me that Her Majesty's Government might be willing, and possibly anxious, to afford to the House some opportunity of becoming aware of the course which they have hitherto pursued, and of giving them some explanation as to their policy and as to the state of our relations upon this subject with the other Powers of Europe. | 1870 | null | 707,559 |
S3V0288P0_25490 | There are certain charges on account of special expenditure in the Soudan which have come in course of payment during the current year, as well as the proposed expenditure for gratuity and medals. | 1880 | null | 634,118 |
S3V0245P0_5261 | It was not his intention that in regard to current leases any fresh or new remedies should be given to landlords. | 1870 | null | 1,066,976 |
S3V0293P0_1522 | M. Emile Laveleye had given names of districts, names of victims, and names of murderers, and had stated that in some cases the victims had had their noses and ears cut off, the skin of their arms torn away, their eyes pecked out, and had then been cut to pieces. | 1880 | null | 702,440 |
S3V0280P0_28210 | I do not believe that the desire for change has arisen from any dissatisfaction or discontent with the manner in which Scotch Business has been traditionally transacted by the persons who have held the high Office of Lord Advocate. | 1880 | null | 497,430 |
S3V0259P0_20251 | He thought that no argument in favour of that improvement could be proposed of a stronger nature than that used by the Secretary to the Admiralty himself tonight, when he showed the large proportion of skilled artizans on board our great fighting vessels in comparison with the number of bluejackets—by which, he presumed, were meant the ordinary sailors. | 1880 | null | 135,528 |
S3V0345P0_25886 | Member who has knowledge of the labouring classes in London whether there is not grievous complaint of the interference in the daily life of the poorer population which is gradually being arrogated to itself by the Police Force. | 1890 | 1890-06-20 | 148,375 |
S3V0305P0_21157 | Successive Ministers tried their hands. | 1880 | null | 939,450 |
S3V0059P0_2432 | I feel that I have no right to shrink from the task thus imposed upon me. | 1840 | null | 133,659 |
S3V0279P0_1822 | According to this ratio, one month in a decade, the true standard will be reached in 80 years, or towards the middle of the 20th century. | 1880 | null | 443,512 |
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differ in opinion. 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S2V0024P0_4053 | When that was refused, were they not bound to try other means of returning to their own country; and when they ascertained that a large island still obeyed their own sovereign, that was their country, and to that they were bound to steer. | 1830 | null | 42,764 |
S3V0079P0_3154 | But he was about to state what induced the Government in 1794–5 to listen to the memorial of the Roman Catholic Prelates, and to establish the institution which they were now considering. | 1840 | null | 471,089 |
S3V0283P0_16776 | The right hon. | 1880 | null | 574,043 |
S3V0162P0_22335 | —[3 lxxvii. | 1860 | null | 170,222 |
S3V0232P0_1843 | But I think, my Lords, that if the policy of the Government is impugned—and directly impugned— | 1870 | null | 757,076 |
S3V0160P0_2311 | There is no intention whatever on the part of the home authorities to interfere directly or indirectly with the power to be exercised by the Governor General over the army in India, and I believe Her Majesty's Government are fully impressed with the belief that to attempt any such interference would be one of the most dangerous steps that could be adopted. | 1860 | null | 94,946 |
S3V0250P0_17311 | There was a very important Bill relating to the distress in Ireland among the Orders of the Day, and he hoped they would be allowed to proceed with that Bill. | 1880 | null | 17,311 |
S4V0004P0_16451 | I would suggest that we should imitate our French neighbours and impose a Stamp Duty on bill posters. | 1890 | 1892-05-16 | 339,617 |
S4V0050P0_20449 | [ Opposition cheers. ] | 1890 | 1897-06-08 | 1,101,938 |
S3V0070P0_15345 | I have no doubt the judges may have given a strictly legal interpretation of that franchise; but I contend, if it is the case that some of those who were parties to the Reform Bill did not understand the words introduced in the bill to have the legal meaning which they were afterwards ascertained to have, and if it is found by practice that the franchise is restricted to such an extent that the county voters in Ireland will be reduced in a few years to a very small body, I say that is a reason for reconsidering the whole question of the franchise, and making it in reality equal. | 1840 | null | 362,649 |
S3V0199P0_10305 | These contracts were, in some aspects, of a one-sided character, as had been described by the Vice President of the Board of Trade, and it was right that the public should have protection in reference to them. | 1870 | null | 10,305 |
S3V0270P0_15826 | they proved everything, and were incontestable. | 1880 | null | 311,294 |
S3V0211P0_678 | thought the objection made by his noble and learned Friend on the Woolsack a reasonable one, and suggested that the nomination of the Committee should be postponed till to-morrow. | 1870 | null | 310,978 |
S3V0060P0_13860 | Looking at the number of railway speculations, at the speculations in joint-stock banks, at the application of capital to every variety of speculative enterprise can we be sure that this 40, 000, 000 . , asserted to have been sunk, is the ultimate extent of the national loss? | 1840 | null | 160,078 |
S3V0011P0_10510 | It had been advanced in that House, because certain persons had already disobeyed the law, that, therefore, they should be released from further obedience to it. | 1830 | null | 254,735 |
S4V0042P0_9239 | in the pound. | 1890 | 1896-07-01 | 929,533 |
S3V0076P0_1086 | In 1801 there were 4, 047, 000 lbs. | 1840 | null | 400,647 |
S3V0267P0_26732 | There is the objection that, resulting as it does in the protection of home industries, it destroys all stimulus and competition. | 1880 | null | 294,672 |
S3V0243P0_21807 | The right hon. | 1870 | null | 1,025,900 |
S3V0296P0_3518 | Gentleman had been in such a hurry to get to bed— | 1880 | null | 730,770 |
S4V0046P0_18596 | Members opposite oppose this Instruction? | 1890 | 1897-02-25 | 1,024,108 |
S3V0237P0_16814 | He did not know if any hon. | 1870 | null | 882,272 |
S3V0253P0_15399 | said, the money would be paid into the Exchequer. | 1880 | null | 83,698 |
S3V0335P0_13063 | Gentleman, by his smiles and yawns, encourages the police thus to act, and whereas only one house was fired last night, we shall, as a consequence, have 30 or 90 fired to-night. | 1880 | null | 1,693,640 |
S3V0041P0_7132 | Member brought forward such a motion with respect to some other branch, it would cause the greatest confusion. ' | 1830 | null | 816,239 |
S3V0280P0_26258 | said, that the Prime Minister, in the few observations he had delivered, had given them a good reason why Progress should now be reported, and he did not think that anything which had been said had removed that reason. | 1880 | null | 495,478 |