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... her friends, and starts her new life at Mellor Park, determined to help the poor people she sees around her. Then Aldous Raeburn, Tory candidate for Parliament and heir to Lord Maxwell's estate, falls in love with her. But Marcella is torn between her love of power and her power to love. But she'll have to learn in the hard way that high morals are apt to clash with reali...

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...of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a Great Man (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged....

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...r many adventures, everybody gets what they deserve. Characteristically to Trollope's works, there is also a secondary plot involving the election of parliament in Baslehurst. Summary by Stav Nisser. The book lives still because of its delicate little scenes of comedy, the meeting of the lovers, Mrs. Tappitt's ball, the bedroom confidences of the Tappitts, Rachel's talks w...

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...o Can you Forgive Her? and the second novel in Trollope's Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to become an M.P. himself, and he ably describes the workings of the English political scene. There is also a love interest, as the somewhat inconstant Phineas courts three different women: his Ir...

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...to your family members, to your students, to your community, to your member of parliament, to your employees, to your work colleagues and to your ex...

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...ur family members, to your students, to your community, to your member of parliament, to your employees, to your work colleagues and to your executi...

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...ler fair in Bangkok. This avuncular stranger, a member of the parliament and the former governor of Pattaya, had informed Kumpee that the... ...un by government ministries to raise funds for the Red Cross, was near the Parliament in the area called Dusit. Tickets to enter were sold at 200 bah...

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...mber, 1858, almost a year since the Mutiny had come to Mirapore, the rule of India was, by Act of Parliament, transferred from the Honourable East I...

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...CHANCES 65 LIBERTINISM ______ 66 REJOINDER ________ 66 MAO TSE-TUNG ____ 66 SATRAPY __________ 66 EXERCISES ________ 66 PLEBEIANS ________ 66 PARLIAMENT ______ 66 PUBLICITY _________ 66 SLEEPING DURING THE NEW YEAR’S NIGHT ________________ 67 DILETTANTE _______ 67 PASSIONATE _______ 67 DICTATORSHIP _____ 67 GROTESQUE _______ 67 BUREAUCRATIZE ___ 67 ESTIMATI...

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...ast of their efficiency. They can get things done NOW, without waiting for parliaments or courts to initiate, to amend or to stop a proposed action. ... ...ia has not been universal. In 2005 thirty three delegates to the European Parliament tried to get a declaration to ban euthanasia and abortion. It f... ... with the ‗superior‘ men. Heaven forbid! Next thing they‘ll want to be in Parliament, be heads or corporations or countries, or even be bishops. Tha... ... 95. Recommendation 779 (1976) on the rights of the sick and dying, of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at its XXVIIth Ordinary Se...

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...ving children is now a duty to your society and yourself. Some members of parliament call non-parents irresponsible. While the government has been u... ...o are products of stable relationships. I also noted that it was the male parliamentarians, not the females, who were pushing the procreation cart. ... ...female representatives in their governments. Sweden leads with 45% of the Parliament being women. “Mohammad‟s wife drove camels but modern... ...eir huge inferiority complexes. “The clerics in Iran blocked a Parliament passed acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Elimi... ...require that female faces be concealed.” —“I always wondered what parliament and executive signed into law the Shariah.” —“I‟m sure th...

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...ree or more children from the republican process of town councils and the parliament creates a question for the democratization of the governing pro...

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...noon locking through the eight flight locks at Ottawa, with the Cana- dian Parliament Buildings on one side of them and the majestic Chateau Laurier H...

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...n into account that women were present. Thinking the situation was like a parliamentary session, he began to back off. Edward and Karen boasted of t... ...ed, slapping another brother on the back that added his titbit. “I prefer parliament sessions myself. All that kicking under the tables, a sideswipe...

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....S. look like their making progress, and delivering some key votes in Italy’s Parliament for support of the NATO Alliance, the U.S. will look the oth...

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...h that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him unto Winchester, and there he took the ...

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...rthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose...

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...Excerpt: That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselve...

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...ts own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little ki...

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... satirizing the frailty of faith, the fecklessness of the English aristocracy, the futility of English pastimes and the fawning of elected Members of Parliament over their middle-class constituents. Booze, banquets, belles and bishops are given the Byronic treatment, while his spleen is reserved for his critics and for tyranny. (Summary by Peter Gallagher)...