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S4V0034P0_2606 | I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—(1) if he is aware that the Newry Board of Guardians, having advertised for a trained hospital nurse with a certificate in midwifery, appointed to the office a spinster of 25 years of age, who admittedly had no training as a hospital nurse and was without the specified certificate in midwifery, and that the Local Government Board, with these facts clearly before it, confirmed the appointment; (2) whether it is the practice of the Local Government Board, before approving of an appointment made by a Board of Guardians, to see that the selected candidate has the required qualifications; (3) if, in view of the vital importance of the duties to be discharged, he will state whether there was any neglect in this matter, and if not, what considerations weighed with the Local Government Board in ratifying the appointment; (4) if the Local Government Board informed itself of the fact that another candidate, Mrs. French, had the required training and certificate, and that the accepted and unqualified candidate is a Protestant, while the rejected and fully qualified one is a Catholic; (5) whether the competence of the person appointed has since become a subject of correspondence between the Local Government Board and the Board of Guardians; and (6) whether, instead of allowing this nurse to hold the appointment and to go to some institution where she may become properly qualified, as appears to be contemplated, either the Board of Guardians will be asked to insist on her resignation, or failing that, the Local Government Board will consider the propriety of ordering her removal from office and the immediate appointment of the properly qualified candidate? | 1890 | 1895-05-23 | 739,861 |
S3V0122P0_10839 | Secretary for the Home Department, he dissented from the opinion of the right hon. | 1850 | null | 226,142 |
S3V0299P0_14303 | Baronet the Secretary to the Treasury (Sir Henry Holland) did not approach the matter in an official spirit, but as a private Member; in his official capacity he must have been startled at the proposal to spend the sum of money suggested upon rooms which would be absolutely useless, and for which no possible employment could be found. | 1880 | null | 795,952 |
S4V0025P0_21946 | said, the Solicitor General had suggested that a case might arise when the executor would not be able to recover the duty if these words were put in. | 1890 | 1894-06-19 | 599,486 |
S4V0029P0_583 | said, that for the work done under this Vote Scotland got £13, 000, Ireland £157, 000, and England £212, 000. | 1890 | 1894-08-20 | 627,200 |
S3V0200P0_1940 | Now, I am not one of those who think that that would be desirable. | 1870 | null | 29,401 |
S4V0001P0_9259 | (4. 15. ) | 1890 | 1892-02-16 | 274,792 |
S3V0207P0_7032 | It was the question; because, as he believed, the civil power had nothing to do with the inside of a church, it was his duty to vote for the Amendment. | 1870 | null | 214,687 |
S3V0005P0_2861 | presented similar petitions from Halesworth and Harleston. | 1830 | null | 141,763 |
S4V0059P0_5150 | I beg to move the following— ""Schedule 2, form of return, page 6, line, after 'officiating at the said marriage, ' add 'being a person registered as qualified to solemnise marriage under the Marriage Act, 1898. '"" ""Schedule 2, form of instructions, page 7, line 2, before 'person, ' insert 'registered. ' | 1890 | 1898-06-15 | 1,232,071 |
S3V0308P0_14307 | He thought, on the whole, the Crofter Commissioners in their Report stated what was the accurate condition of things, that only perhaps on four estates in the whole Highlands they had got to pay rack-rents. | 1880 | null | 996,435 |
S4V0056P0_16549 | of the voters recorded their votes as illiterates, and it has also been stated that clerical intimidation had been used. | 1890 | 1898-04-27 | 1,224,159 |
S2V0015P0_9936 | secretary opposite, who, on all subjects, was a high authority, and particularly on the affairs of India; he appealed to him, whether he could approve the expediency of removing this only effectual check over that large discretionary power possessed by the company. | 1820 | null | 268,439 |
S3V0276P0_23027 | Before I sit down I hope the House will bear with me while I say a few sentences upon the advantages which I expect from this scheme. | 1880 | null | 381,822 |
S3V0193P0_3388 | —only represents the impulses and declamatory power of the nation, of course that makes an end of the matter. | 1860 | null | 885,267 |
S3V0209P0_12940 | He should advise the Government to revert to first principles—to that 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doctrine which was their original principle, and he would appeal to the Prime Minister to act handsomely and withdraw the Bill at once. | 1870 | null | 270,712 |
S3V0331P0_9252 | it was the first occasion on which Irish Members had ever been known to refuse to receive money for their country. | 1880 | null | 1,585,893 |
S3V0161P0_5885 | asked whether there was any intention of bringing in a similar measure in reference to Highways in Scotland? | 1860 | null | 122,414 |
S3V0346P0_13195 | The men have never been approached; Mr. Nepean has not seen them, and nothing has been done in the way of getting the wages raised. | 1890 | 1890-07-03 | 167,016 |
S3V0244P0_24055 | It is admitted that if there had been a complete cession of Cyprus there would not have been any question raised as between the Porte and the countries with which the Treaties have been made; but it is said that Treaties between those countries and the Porte were so binding that, as no complete cession has been made, those Treaties cannot be altered. | 1870 | null | 1,056,512 |
S3V0071P0_7532 | I have been anxious thus briefly to express my opinions | 1840 | null | 374,621 |
S3V0336P0_13983 | KING (Hull, Central) seconded the Motion. | 1880 | null | 1,725,372 |
S3V0174P0_26636 | No doubt the British consumer does pay dear enough for the weak crushed sugars which alone he uses, but he cannot he the victim of a system of manufacture so improvident and wasteful as this. | 1860 | null | 444,869 |
S3V0210P0_22620 | Member for Clare, supported by three other hon. | 1870 | null | 305,951 |
S4V0054P0_7693 | Gentlemen in this House who know nothing whatever of the district, and have no interest, so far as I can see, with the line in any way whatever. | 1890 | 1898-03-03 | 1,166,913 |
S3V0161P0_14143 | If a clergyman obtained credit upon his known possession of a fixed income he ought to be liable to the same consequences as other people. | 1860 | null | 130,672 |
S3V0056P0_18825 | But when the proceedings of Lord Cardigan, who but a short time ago was reinstated in the command of a regiment, were considered, it did appear to him extraordinary that such a state of things should have been permitted. | 1840 | null | 89,693 |
S2V0007P0_19096 | He began by observing, that the House had now for the last six years been engaged very laboriously, and he would not say altogether unprofitably, for the country, but he wished he could add more beneficially, in inquiries concerning the immense and overgrown establishments of the country; and the principal object of these inquiries had been, to see how the pressure of the burthens on the people, occasioned by those vast establishments, could be reduced. | 1820 | null | 130,503 |
S3V0218P0_21488 | If the hon. | 1870 | null | 468,734 |
S3V0216P0_12320 | That also was the rule in Ireland, he believed. | 1870 | null | 415,407 |
S3V0313P0_21548 | The amounts which had been acknowledged in the Nationalist organs as having been received from America were—from 1879 to 1882, £147, 553; in the year 1883, £10, 822; 1884, £4, 081; from January to June, 1885, £2, 000; from July to December, 1885, £20, 948; from January to June, 1886, £36, 938; and from June to September, 1886, £32, 555; making a total received from America, from 1883 to the end of 1886, of £107, 345. | 1880 | null | 1,143,070 |
S3V0244P0_4277 | remarked that he had said in his speech that he was not prepared to carry out the recom- mendations in toto, but that he thought they should be carried out only very carefully and tentatively. | 1870 | null | 1,036,734 |
S2V0006P0_13551 | The learned gentleman called for delay. | 1820 | null | 103,576 |
S3V0028P0_11083 | Friend, as I equally object to a construction being put on it by any other Member of the Committee—my wish is to see the evidence, when I am called on to award punishment. | 1830 | null | 569,498 |
S4V0034P0_22161 | THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. HENRY FOWLER, Wolverhampton, E. ) : | 1890 | 1895-06-20 | 759,416 |
S3V0153P0_4933 | Certain parties— | 1850 | null | 924,367 |
S4V0040P0_19368 | He did not agree with the hon. | 1890 | 1896-05-12 | 886,284 |
S3V0299P0_1043 | He would not move the Amendments he had himself put upon the Paper; but he should ask their Lordships to divide against the proposal, upon the ground that they should not make it impossible to establish a Ministry of Education, if, on discussion in Parliament, it should be deemed desirable. | 1880 | null | 782,692 |
S3V0300P0_15783 | By that it would be possible for the tenant to purchase his land by the payment of a rent not exceeding the amount he was now paying. | 1880 | null | 823,888 |
S4V0051P0_5435 | Friend the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who would probably get information before I should, is not here. | 1890 | 1897-07-14 | 1,111,000 |
S3V0303P0_15709 | Friend now asked why they should retain on the Statute Book provisions which were in disuse, and which were disused, not because it was temporarily inexpedient to put them in operation, but because a majority of the House of Commons, and, probably, in his (Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's) opinion, a still larger majority in the country, condemned and repudiated them. | 1880 | null | 877,032 |
S3V0280P0_8852 | That penalty was to be inflicted upon a poor man who, """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""directly or indirectly, """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on behalf of somebody else, committed some little act which, in the opinion of the gentlemen who inquired into the circumstances, might be contrary to this provision. | 1880 | null | 478,072 |
S2V0009P0_14982 | On the subject of the offices, I wish to address myself principally to him, and to my hon. | 1820 | null | 173,490 |
S3V0069P0_21441 | What was there to induce them during the period between 1810 and 1826, to resort to the mitigated enactments, continued afterwards to the period of 1836, when Mr. Drummond, in his magnificent evidence, showed that such a great diminution of crime had taken place, and now, when there had been a still greater decrease in crime, what was there to justify them in resorting to a more stringent law. | 1840 | null | 347,048 |
S3V0156P0_27047 | What he complained of was that the general policy of the Government, however, in Italy had been marked by an abnegation of those principles of public law by which the relations of countries had hitherto been governed, and on which all civil politics must ultimately depend; and he was convinced that if Her Majesty's Government had not encouraged rebellion, annexation, demonstrations, and schemes of settlement in different countries by upsetting the treaties on which international law had previously been based, nothing would ever have been heard of this proposal for annexing Savoy to France. | 1860 | null | 27,047 |
S3V0082P0_6608 | It was signed by Professor Leslie and by Mr. D. Stewart, and many other distinguished persons have signed it up to a recent period. | 1840 | null | 534,427 |
S3V0178P0_18825 | The main grievance was the supersession of the right of promotion by seniority. | 1860 | null | 555,273 |
S3V0323P0_8003 | That amounted to this—that out of 72 Scottish Members there were 60 who were Liberal, or who called themselves Liberal—and for the present argument he would assume that they were Liberal. | 1880 | null | 1,385,568 |
S3V0220P0_19785 | Gentleman the Member for the London University (Mr. Lowe) had been in the House just before the division, and had been talking to the Speaker while the division was going on, but had not recorded his vote. | 1870 | null | 493,306 |
S4V0022P0_18437 | The third innovation consisted in a restricted area of taxation, and the plan submitted by the County Council showed that while outside the lines of the plan certain properties would be bettered, other properties inside the lines would not be bettered. | 1890 | 1894-04-03 | 549,014 |
S4V0041P0_9006 | That was another matter on which he wished for information. | 1890 | 1896-06-05 | 903,015 |
S4V0032P0_2820 | J. H. C. HOZIER (Lanarkshire, S. ) : | 1890 | 1895-03-26 | 687,640 |
S4V0075P0_14967 | The Amendment I have to move is to insert after ""Commissioners"" in Clause 2, page 2, line 1, the words ""except as here in after provided. | 1890 | 1899-08-01 | 1,395,462 |
S3V0102P0_13994 | They did persist, and they were so adjourned, and British Guiana had since been left literally without a Government. | 1840 | null | 897,324 |
S3V0205P0_22934 | This is a complete Republic; we are all equal here; the Declaration of Paris unfortunately does not apply to Parliamentary privateering; and the Regular forces therefore are sometimes extremely inconvenienced and embarrassed. | 1870 | null | 178,731 |
S3V0093P0_12698 | Then, supposing it to be globular in form, the gas requisite for its inflation would be 18, 816 cubic feet. | 1840 | null | 754,652 |
S3V0315P0_24116 | I tried to take it down, but that was wholly impossible, for it is as long as """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""God Save the Queen. | 1880 | null | 1,209,026 |
S3V0312P0_5160 | """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""I am very glad to see that you propose to call attention to the question of our coaling stations. | 1880 | null | 1,097,345 |
S3V0216P0_14372 | The jurisdiction of the House of Lords ought to be looked at in two points of view—one political, the other forensic. | 1870 | null | 417,459 |
S3V0325P0_27062 | Therefore, the question of the legality of the meeting was not the question at issue at all. | 1880 | null | 1,458,765 |
S3V0001P0_14805 | Member under the Gallery (Mr. Attwood), to keep down the people. | 1830 | null | 72,344 |
S3V0070P0_3165 | Why, they actually boasted publicly of their discipline; to use an expression of their own, they were as well trained under their repeal wardens, as were her Majesty's troops under their sergeants. | 1840 | null | 350,469 |
S3V0136P0_24044 | the great contractors—whose business it was to do the very things that were wanted to be done, and were they not men who managed to keep themselves out of the Gazette by the exercise of those administrative abilities from the want of which the present deadlock had arisen? | 1850 | null | 497,689 |
S3V0193P0_23491 | He could conceive no objection that could be offered to the clause, which, if it did no good, could certainly do no harm. | 1860 | null | 905,370 |
S3V0235P0_13729 | He took rather a lawyer's view of the case. | 1870 | null | 853,413 |
S3V0031P0_18463 | He (Mr. Sergeant Jackson) did not think that there was much toleration in addresses of this kind. | 1830 | null | 634,029 |
S3V0105P0_135 | A 1 for 12 years. | 1840 | null | 945,474 |
S3V0167P0_3888 | But he the (Marquess of Normanby) had an opportunity on the spot of collecting indisputable evidence that one of the instances of cruel treatment given to the public on official authority, was the corrupt invention of a worthless informant of the British Legation. | 1860 | null | 297,174 |
S3V0048P0_3448 | majority; in such a case—when he found the opinions of the Commons clearly and decidedly expressed, he might not feel bound to give up his own opinion, but at all events he should consider himself bound to speak upon the question with deference and respect, to examine it with delicacy, to attack it with hesitation—if possible to agree with it—not lightly or inconsiderately to differ from it. | 1830 | null | 917,428 |
S3V0178P0_3130 | said, he wished to know whether the right hon. | 1860 | null | 539,578 |
S3V0080P0_5901 | Surely the House would not sanction the principle that if a professor were to enjoy his salary for thirty years, that he must by reason of such a clause as this be deprived of all the advantages of a vested interest. | 1840 | null | 494,435 |
S3V0180P0_9996 | Gentleman bestowed upon the present system of education, which he said was the best possible system for the people of Ireland, from which such teaching was altogether excluded. | 1860 | null | 589,384 |
S4V0039P0_17440 | *SERJEANT HEMPHILL (Tyrone, N. ) said, it was conceded that Lord Charlemont was Comptroller under successive Lord Lieutenants, representing different shades of politics, from 1868. | 1890 | 1896-04-17 | 857,511 |
S3V0325P0_20243 | The present system of voting was extremely faulty; if the papers were accurately distributed by the policeman, it did not necessarily follow that they were accurately collected. | 1880 | null | 1,451,946 |
S3V0066P0_15306 | The punishments inflicted by Lord Abinger were of a severe description. | 1840 | null | 282,564 |
S2V0007P0_16475 | It took place in the midst of a constantly increasing demand. | 1820 | null | 127,882 |
S3V0155P0_3552 | The main question was, what equivalent should be substituted for the annuity tax, and he regretted that his noble Friend had not offered any suggestion on that point. | 1850 | null | 969,865 |
S3V0187P0_17784 | The construction which high legal authorities put upon the Act is that, directly or constructively, every despatch or order raises a question of expenditure, over which the Council of India have a conclusive and absolute veto, and from which there is no appeal except by an Act of Parliament. | 1860 | null | 758,817 |
S3V0061P0_7809 | Baronet opposite had reminded them last Session of the dictum of Mr. Tierney, who had said, that"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" the duty of an Opposition was to oppose every thing and propose nothing. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" | 1840 | null | 173,773 |
S3V0331P0_4517 | He confessed that on the first blush of the thing he felt great sympathy—as he thought he had already expressed to the Committee—with the objects which the hon. | 1880 | null | 1,581,158 |
S4V0050P0_18917 | Member for St. Helens was, in the opinion of the Government, already sufficiently provided for. | 1890 | 1897-07-06 | 1,100,406 |
S3V0351P0_24806 | Again, Sir, the Sunday League informs us that, although the continental Sunday is ""by no means so black as it is painted, "" its evils are in many points being remedied. | 1890 | 1891-03-20 | 239,468 |
S1V0035P0_7811 | The order in council, in fixing the salary, simply assumed its maximum, in a similar way to what was adopted by that House, in voting a sum not exceeding a certain amount; but if it appeared there was no occasion for so much as might be voted, ministers were expected to exercise that discretion, which he insisted belonged equal to the lords of the admiralty. | 1810 | null | 124,521 |
S3V0281P0_23784 | He would put to the Committee two or three such cases. | 1880 | null | 521,430 |
S3V0024P0_3545 | said, that after the extraordinary speech of the noble Duke who had just sat down, he must trespass upon the indulgence of their Lordships for a few minutes. | 1830 | null | 489,993 |
S3V0181P0_4932 | He trusted that before the sitting was over he would hear from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or some other occupant of the Treasury Bench, an assurance that, during the present Session, measures would be brought forward calculated to put a stop to the present deplorable condition of things in Ireland. | 1860 | null | 600,486 |
S3V0051P0_8271 | But he thought it due to himself and to those who might think with him, at this early stage to warn the House against pursuing the same fatal course of weakness and indecision into which they had been betrayed on a former occasion, and to declare his conviction that more decided means for asserting their privileges ought now to be adopted. | 1840 | null | 8,271 |
S3V0243P0_20102 | Nine-tenths of the increase of expenditure to which the hon. | 1870 | null | 1,024,195 |
S3V0265P0_8800 | Gentleman upon the present Vote, as an illustration of the way in which the police were sent to various parts of Ireland at great expense to the ratepayers; and before the large amount now asked for was passed by the Committee, he thought that some further information than that given by the right hon. | 1880 | null | 234,176 |
S3V0246P0_10662 | The alteration of an entry by a careless or dishonest servant, a trifling accident, or the spite of an Exciseman, all expose the brewer to penalties which cannot but be oppressive and injurious. | 1870 | null | 1,100,572 |
S3V0131P0_15334 | , I am not now about to weary the House with figures, | 1850 | null | 393,091 |
S3V0139P0_18043 | The right hon. | 1850 | null | 577,852 |
S3V0178P0_23422 | The theory of some hon. | 1860 | null | 559,870 |
S3V0162P0_27823 | He wanted to know why there should be such an enormous establishment at head-quarters. | 1860 | null | 175,710 |
S3V0183P0_5576 | Gentleman the Member for Calne has said that we hare given no reasons for our Bill; and he likewise said that we know nothing of those 204, 000 persons, whom it is proposed to enfranchise in boroughs; indeed, as I think, he repeated the assertion several times. | 1860 | null | 659,180 |
S2V0006P0_18235 | The length of time also which elapsed between the commitment and the trial, deterred many persons from prosecuting. | 1820 | null | 108,260 |
S1V0014P0_4173 | It must be obvious, therefore, that, with any corrupt object in view, I should have avoided this case, which never once existed, which was merely imaginary, which was a perfect romance, as perfect a one as my playing cards with Mr. Reding, to which charge, if to any other, I could undertake to prove an alibi. | 1800 | null | 66,103 |
S3V0117P0_5013 | I agree with the Under Secretary that Lord Torringten is a very ill-used man; but by whom ill used? | 1850 | null | 141,083 |
S3V0259P0_11724 | In his (Major Nolan's) opinion, it would be the Chief Secretary, if that right hon. | 1880 | null | 127,001 |
S1V0013P0_10657 | After some further discussion, it was understood that Mr. Bathurst's motion was to have the precedence on Monday. | 1800 | null | 60,491 |
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