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S3V0084P0_10887 | The next device of the ecclesiastical bodies was to take long terms of years, which was the origin of the long terms in our family settlements. | 1840 | null | 579,665 |
S4V0054P0_11094 | I wish to call attention to the subject of workmen's trains on the great metropolitan railways. | 1890 | 1898-03-04 | 1,170,314 |
S3V0049P0_4697 | I certainly was in the habit of going into the place; I was in the habit of going down and looking on. | 1830 | null | 937,111 |
S3V0340P0_11446 | It is not at all hostile to the Bill, but will lead to its being adopted. | 1880 | null | 1,810,224 |
S3V0333P0_6419 | Mr. Carew admits that his resistance to the removal of his clothes and the putting on of the prison dress was very violent, and considerable force had in consequence to be used in enforcing compliance on his part with the rules, but the Governor, who was present, states the force used was not greater than the circumstances rendered necessary. | 1880 | null | 1,628,976 |
S3V0238P0_17576 | But while they had very little to do with The Daily Telegraph, unfortunately Mr. Layard had a great deal to do with it, and they were bound to consider the matter in all its bearings. | 1870 | null | 911,308 |
S3V0343P0_29726 | But the right hon. | 1890 | 1890-05-01 | 90,120 |
S3V0244P0_15341 | If hon. | 1870 | null | 1,047,798 |
S4V0047P0_8556 | I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether any precedent exists for the holding in Dublin of and inquiry into the loss of a vessel where such vessel was lost on some part of the Irish coast remote from Dublin; why the usual practice in such cases of holding the Inquiry in the locality of the wreck has been departed from in the case of the Puffin Inquiry, seeing that such inquiries have been repeatedly held at Cork in the case of wrecks near that port; whether it is usual for the next of kin of the parties lost in the wreck to be represented at the Inquiry; and, in view of the desirability of having them represented at the Inquiry, and the practical impossibility of this except at great expense if the sitting is at Dublin, the Board of Trade will direct the Inquiry to be adjourned to Cork? | 1890 | 1897-03-11 | 1,040,480 |
S1V0019P0_10844 | But since these restraints have been removed, they have afforded the greatest advantages. | 1810 | null | 20,183 |
S3V0335P0_28958 | That is the position of these two unfortunates. | 1880 | null | 1,709,535 |
S3V0337P0_23546 | I quite admit the point made by my hon. | 1880 | null | 1,764,534 |
S3V0166P0_21045 | In 1859, out of 1, 645 lives lost 926 were lost in three fine ships, the Royal Charter , the Pomona , and the Blervie Castle . | 1860 | null | 280,670 |
S3V0126P0_8841 | In 1847 Ireland built thirty-three ships, having a total tonnage of 3, 000; in 1851 her industry in this respect had fallen to thirteen ships, with 900 tonnage. | 1850 | null | 286,281 |
S3V0076P0_6775 | But, generally speaking, the practice had been satisfactory as far as respected the old and the married. | 1840 | null | 406,336 |
S3V0344P0_28559 | It was on the Paper. | 1890 | 1890-06-02 | 119,856 |
S3V0051P0_5838 | He had also proved it from the report of the committee of 1771, fortified as it was by so many cases and precedents; and he trusted now, as they had ever done before, that they would not suffer their privileges to be questioned by any tribunal in the country, either high or low. | 1840 | null | 5,838 |
S3V0038P0_1434 | _ | 1830 | null | 747,182 |
S1V0039P0_15831 | It might be convenient, that he should say a few words with respect to the other bill—for the establishment of Parochial Benefit societies—which he was about to ask leave to bring in. | 1810 | null | 184,687 |
S1V0001P0_1328 | quitted the woolsack, and delivered his sentiments upon the occasion. | 1800 | null | 1,328 |
S3V0031P0_17225 | He was ready to acknowledge, that if the publicity of divisions could not be obtained without such an expenditure of the public time as that which the hon. | 1830 | null | 632,791 |
S2V0004P0_16254 | The number of noneffectives fell much more heavily on the home than on the colonial service. | 1820 | null | 64,732 |
S3V0306P0_7042 | I think that the House saw the futility of the quotation which the noble Lord made with reference to a Winter Session; but if he had read the speech of my right hon. | 1880 | null | 956,440 |
S3V0225P0_7511 | Gentlemen were applied to by inventors they could then tell them to go to that Committee. | 1870 | null | 601,334 |
S3V0091P0_18468 | Friend must remember the course I took with regard to the Maynooth grant, and the opinions I then expressed, at some risk of the loss of popular favour and of office; and he must have seen that there is between him and me a total difference of opinion as to the principle of giving aid to the Roman Catholics for purposes of instruction. | 1840 | null | 721,563 |
S1V0041P0_12198 | was surprised at the extravagant construction which the hon. | 1810 | null | 220,536 |
S3V0259P0_8006 | He submitted there could not be the same reason for going into a man's house and taking him away to gaol as there might be for arresting a body of men found in a road with arms in their hands. | 1880 | null | 123,283 |
S4V0051P0_7686 | But he wished to lay lay down the broad principle that in the case of the Post Office there was not that Parliamentary control which existed over all the other Departments of the State. | 1890 | 1897-07-16 | 1,113,251 |
S4V0055P0_2528 | [The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE: Four voted against that recommendation. ] | 1890 | 1898-03-17 | 1,186,269 |
S2V0011P0_7357 | He was of opinion, that a grant of the public money, to be applied towards the purposes of education, would be much more desirable. | 1820 | null | 206,094 |
S4V0011P0_27918 | *MR. | 1890 | 1893-05-02 | 444,774 |
S3V0313P0_18289 | If the right hon. | 1880 | null | 1,139,811 |
S4V0056P0_11938 | Gentleman will promise definitely and without reservation that he will do everything in his power to secure this, I will vote with the Government, should my hon. | 1890 | 1898-04-22 | 1,219,548 |
S4V0024P0_20537 | rose in his place, and claimed to move, ' That the Question be now put. "" | 1890 | 1894-05-25 | 572,302 |
S4V0077P0_10559 | No, Sir. | 1890 | 1899-10-26 | 1,413,129 |
S3V0010P0_8952 | Had the proper principle of colonization been attended to, as they had been with regard to the American colonies, this country would not have been put to any expense on that account. | 1830 | null | 234,705 |
S3V0195P0_12372 | Gentleman every facility consistent with the privileges of the House; but, as representatives of the taxpayers, they had a right to have these matters freely discussed in the usual mode in Committee of Ways and Means. | 1860 | null | 949,149 |
S3V0200P0_15833 | The right hon. | 1870 | null | 43,294 |
S4V0024P0_11098 | Gentlemen preferred the expression, tolerated this evil for a moment. | 1890 | 1894-05-09 | 562,863 |
S4V0025P0_18558 | He (Mr. Cohen) had no interest, direct or indirect, in any Life Assurance Company, but lie ventured to say that it was not enough for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to meet their proposals with the reply that if this Amendment were accepted it would incidentally benefit the Life Assurance Companies of the country. | 1890 | 1894-06-15 | 596,098 |
S3V0024P0_9441 | His gallant friend acted under those instructions; and, as far as he was aware, there had been no change in the instructions given by Mr. Canning. | 1830 | null | 495,889 |
S3V0193P0_15149 | Therefore I do not clearly understand what it is that the hon. | 1860 | null | 897,028 |
S3V0233P0_3274 | Gentleman said there was an average attendance of 2, 000, 000 of children in England, out of 3, 000, 000 on the rolls, yet when he (Sir Michael Hicks-Beach) came to examine what percentage passed the result qualification he found the proportion 34 per cent out of 1, 783, 000 children, including infants. | 1870 | null | 786,041 |
S3V0206P0_13086 | Friend the Member for the county of Sligo (Mr. O'Conor). | 1870 | null | 195,157 |
S4V0025P0_14747 | The right hon. | 1890 | 1894-06-12 | 592,287 |
S3V0161P0_30313 | The Master of the Rolls was so impressed with the ability which Mr. Turnbull had displayed in the performance of his important duty, and the loss to the public which would be occasioned by his resignation, that he urgently pressed the Lords of the Treasury not to accept his resignation, but to retain him in his office. | 1860 | null | 146,842 |
S3V0337P0_16558 | I know nothing more. | 1880 | null | 1,757,546 |
S4V0015P0_26818 | He would like to ask Scotch Members what they thought their constituents would say to them for voting in favour of the Irish Members coming to the House and taking an active part in Scotch affairs. | 1890 | 1893-08-09 | 501,187 |
S3V0008P0_5497 | In this instance it was proposed to give the Chief Baron one-half, and the Puisne Baron two-thirds of their salaries; but when the Welsh Judgeships were abolished, the whole of their salaries were allowed to them for life, and no opposition was made to that arrangement. | 1830 | null | 200,482 |
S3V0170P0_10419 | The dealer would get the best price he could, and the Government would be acting unjustly to the consumer if they yielded to any complaint such as this. | 1860 | null | 352,742 |
S3V0245P0_23447 | Member on this side of the House, the hon. | 1870 | null | 1,085,162 |
S3V0234P0_24888 | moved the following clause:— (Officers of prison to be liable for damages for excess of punishment. ) | 1870 | null | 835,396 |
S3V0196P0_24612 | If arithmetical equality were intended, the Bill, instead of being a moderate and tentative measure of re- form, would be as revolutionary a scheme as had ever been brought before the House. | 1860 | null | 989,016 |
S3V0051P0_1336 | But the rank was always fixed by the Naturalization Bill. | 1840 | null | 1,336 |
S1V0011P0_2306 | With respect to what had been said by the noble lord (Holland), he now clearly understood the object of that noble lord to be to ascertain, whether it was the intention of ministers to revoke the Orders in Council so far as regarded the ports of Spain? | 1800 | null | 27,799 |
S3V0306P0_2133 | Are you going to the constituencies upon the question whether or not there shall be one Imperial Parliament, or whether there shall be two Parliaments, one essential condition of which is that the British Parliament shall be free from the obstruction of the Irish Members? | 1880 | null | 951,531 |
S3V0059P0_10516 | Now, what says the right hon. | 1840 | null | 141,743 |
S3V0062P0_14871 | The commissioners were to go about calling upon persons to deliver in lists of their incomes; and if any person refused or neglected so to do within the time limited in the notice of the commissioners, such person should forfeit a sum not exceeding 20 . ; and if he should be prosecuted for any such offence, then he should forfeit the sum of 50 . to be recovered in any of her Majesty's courts; but there was another penalty imposed by that clause—that such persons refusing or neglecting to deliver in such list, should forfeit in addition to the 20 . | 1840 | null | 199,579 |
S4V0038P0_4188 | I beg to ask the Lord Advocate, whether the Secretary for Scotland has received a memorial from the Committee for the promotion of a Fishery Boat Refuge for the Moray Firth; whether the facts alleged in the memorial are correct as regards the magnitude of the interests involved, the dangers to life and property, the inadequacy of existing harbours for refuge purposes, and the advantages of Craigenroan as the site for a boat refuge, from both an engineering and a financial point of view; whether the reports on Craigenroan by the engineers of the Fishery Board and of the Government are unconditionally favourable; and, what steps the Government propose to take in order to deal with this question and to give effect to the recommendation, dated 22nd July 1894, of a Committee of this House, which declared that it falls entirely within the province of the Government to provide the much-needed refuge in these districts? | 1890 | 1896-03-05 | 819,232 |
S3V0102P0_4915 | Last Session there were between two and two and a half millions of petitioners for Parliamentary reform, and a largo number for reduction of the excessive burden of our unequal taxation. | 1840 | null | 888,245 |
S3V0245P0_14242 | , I believe that a Committee would be able to get a good deal of information on the subject; and I am not at all sure that a discussion conducted in open day by a committee of this House might not have some effect even in foreign countries in opening the eyes of certain classes to the defects of their systems. | 1870 | null | 1,075,957 |
S4V0042P0_11129 | An explosion of coal dust had occurred which led to a great loss of life, and which might have been avoided if the Home Secretary possessed the power which the clause proposed to give him. | 1890 | 1896-07-02 | 931,423 |
S3V0309P0_9296 | TUITE | 1880 | null | 1,020,918 |
S3V0346P0_17470 | It has been drawn by an eminent conveyancer, and it comes down with the sanction of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Herschell. | 1890 | 1890-07-07 | 171,291 |
S3V0292P0_3816 | It had then to be considered what parts of the existing system required improvement, and how such improvement should be effected. | 1880 | null | 695,702 |
S3V0092P0_18694 | I am aware how tedious the details with which I have to deal must appear to the House, and how incapable I am of imparting to them an interest which their nature will scarcely admit of; but, unless the data which I have assumed be disputed, I think the House must perceive that I have established the fact that the Poor Law is, in itself, inadequate to the object for which it is intended, and that no efficient aid will he given by the subsidiary measures already proposed by the Government. | 1840 | null | 741,002 |
S3V0120P0_9190 | The noble Viscount had been long recognised as the protector of British subjects in every part of the world. | 1850 | null | 184,871 |
S3V0005P0_935 | interposed, and said, it was Don Pedro whom he had designated as king of Portugal. | 1830 | null | 139,837 |
S3V0288P0_15847 | But it is the invitation to which we are pledged. | 1880 | null | 624,475 |
S3V0284P0_19599 | """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""They wanted men on the spot, travelling Commissioners, who would pass from Province to Province, and see that the reforms designed were carried out. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1880 | null | 600,850 |
S3V0320P0_25469 | There would be no difficulty about the hon. | 1880 | null | 1,333,062 |
S3V0335P0_19347 | I think we have ground for complaint, too, as to the action of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the Indian traders on the coast. | 1880 | null | 1,699,924 |
S3V0038P0_18108 | The assertion of a Member in his place in Parliament, however vague and uncertain it might be, touching any question affecting the freedom of election or the conduct of Government, afforded ample ground to justify the House in instituting inquiry. | 1830 | null | 763,856 |
S3V0048P0_302 | """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I never considered there was the least weight in; that objection, for this reason:— | 1830 | null | 914,282 |
S3V0029P0_4772 | With respect to the suggestion for appointing a tribunal of three or five persons to insure uniformity of decision, that question had been discussed before the Registration Committee; but it was one on which he had not yet made up his mind. | 1830 | null | 581,241 |
S3V0335P0_17497 | That is not so. | 1880 | null | 1,698,074 |
S3V0166P0_31711 | in reply said, he had received a statement from the Lord Mayor and Municipal Council of Dublin at the time mentioned, but the hon. | 1860 | null | 291,336 |
S3V0345P0_18926 | Why do not you reduce the number yourselves? | 1890 | 1890-06-16 | 141,415 |
S3V0210P0_6483 | I will only wind up by saying that they are totally inadequate as a settlement of the great University question in Ireland. | 1870 | null | 289,814 |
S3V0030P0_10977 | Now, what he wished was, that the hon. | 1830 | null | 607,137 |
S3V0071P0_8920 | They were not to justify the machine maker for smuggling; but they gave him an excuse which no other smuggler possessed. | 1840 | null | 376,009 |
S2V0008P0_20286 | In the confidence which the right hon. | 1820 | null | 158,429 |
S3V0222P0_13117 | I wish to state briefly why I voted with the minority on the former occasion. | 1870 | null | 527,852 |
S2V0012P0_15936 | contended, that the efforts made by individuals to relieve private distress in Ireland were equal to those made by any individuals in any European country. | 1820 | null | 235,035 |
S3V0318P0_14663 | Will the Home Secretary, who laughs, get up and say that the Vestry of St. Pancras will give good security? | 1880 | null | 1,260,056 |
S4V0067P0_3052 | If that is all, Mr. Speaker, I venture to think there will be no difficulty. | 1890 | 1899-02-22 | 1,286,778 |
S3V0309P0_1720 | I trust, after this explanation, the hon. | 1880 | null | 1,013,342 |
S3V0317P0_24199 | CLARK (Caithness) rose amid loud cries of """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Divide!"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1880 | null | 1,237,175 |
S3V0204P0_26230 | No military system could be efficient unless the Army were divided into regular corps d'armées of so many thousand men each, with a due proportion of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and military train, kept up so as to be able to move at short notice. | 1870 | null | 154,484 |
S4V0032P0_16326 | The arguments of the hon. | 1890 | 1895-04-05 | 701,146 |
S3V0157P0_27011 | His right hon. | 1860 | null | 58,487 |
S3V0175P0_12321 | begged to ask whether an order had not been recently issued and sent down to Devonport, directing that all the men above sixty, without any exception, should be superannuated? | 1860 | null | 458,562 |
S2V0005P0_1139 | But after his death it was aggravated and enforced; it was rendered infinitely more severe and intolerable to the unhappy people who were governed under it. | 1820 | null | 70,706 |
S3V0124P0_99 | Your Lordships are aware that at the present moment, Parliament having been adjourned and not prorogued, and a new Government having succeeded to office since the delivery of the Royal Speech, we have no indication of the specific measures which it is the intention of that Government to submit to Parliament; yet the circumstances of the occasion are such as to render it not less expedient that the policy of the Government should be made known then, as if it were the first day of a new Session. | 1850 | null | 258,704 |
S2V0011P0_17380 | I doubt if there be any man, under similar circumstances, fervently believing the divine truths of the religion of which he was a minister, who under equal excitement, would have more eminently displayed patient endurance, or so well have tempered his zeal with discretion. | 1820 | null | 216,117 |
S3V0237P0_12694 | What may be her position to-morrow? | 1870 | null | 878,152 |
S3V0151P0_3935 | In regard to the term of prorogation his Grace (who professes such extreme reverence for precedent) has introduced a new practice. | 1850 | null | 892,379 |
S3V0215P0_10807 | He was bound to say that the Conservative counts-out were always made with great judgment, and if that example was followed by the advanced Members of the Liberal party, there would be less waste of the public time in future. | 1870 | null | 386,316 |
S3V0347P0_1697 | Very often a man is the occupier of a certain number of fields, and the owner of a certain number of adjoining fields; he might pay the tithe for the whole of this land, and the incumbent would have no power of distinguishing between that which was owned and that which was occupied. | 1890 | 1890-07-24 | 185,219 |
S3V0339P0_10660 | Are the people of Mitchelstown very fond of the police who shot them down in a wanton, cruel, and relentless fashion? | 1880 | null | 1,780,255 |
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