Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 30W. Blackwood, 1831 - England |
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... House of Peers is already threatened with destruction the moment they exercise their con- stitutional rights of rejecting or mo- difying the Reform Bill , the first step in the English changes . Utter igno- rance of history , or wilful ...
... House of Peers is already threatened with destruction the moment they exercise their con- stitutional rights of rejecting or mo- difying the Reform Bill , the first step in the English changes . Utter igno- rance of history , or wilful ...
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... PEERS of Britain that we , in an especial manner , now ad- dress ourselves . With them it lies to temper passing ... House . Some concession must be made to the declared wish of the majority in point of numbers of the nation , and ...
... PEERS of Britain that we , in an especial manner , now ad- dress ourselves . With them it lies to temper passing ... House . Some concession must be made to the declared wish of the majority in point of numbers of the nation , and ...
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... House of Peers that this last defensive contest must be maintained . Let not that illustrious assembly be intimidated by the as- sertion that they are but an insulated titled body , severed from the people by their privileges ...
... House of Peers that this last defensive contest must be maintained . Let not that illustrious assembly be intimidated by the as- sertion that they are but an insulated titled body , severed from the people by their privileges ...
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... peers now more than four times as nu- merous as they were in the great Rebellion , but their landed property is at least ten times as great , and greatly exceeds the collected wealth of the whole House ... Peers have been decidedly ...
... peers now more than four times as nu- merous as they were in the great Rebellion , but their landed property is at least ten times as great , and greatly exceeds the collected wealth of the whole House ... Peers have been decidedly ...
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... House of Peers saved the constitution and liberties of England from destruc- tion . Removed from the strife of ministerial ambition , and perma- nently interested in the liberties of the country with which their fate was indissolubly ...
... House of Peers saved the constitution and liberties of England from destruc- tion . Removed from the strife of ministerial ambition , and perma- nently interested in the liberties of the country with which their fate was indissolubly ...
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Page 563 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
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Page 563 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.