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...do seem immeasurably beneath the dignity of judges of the land, members of parliament, ministers of state, lord mayors, and other great public func t... ...wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful! If Parliament don’t take their abominable courses under consideration, this co... ...kitchen he went. There were assembled, in that lower house of the domestic parliament, the women servants, Mr. Brittles, Mr. Giles, the tinker (who ha... ... the doctor, ‘you are a queer fellow. But of course they will get you into parliament at the election before Christ mas, and these sudden shiftings a... ...e led off by the collar; threatening, till he got into the yard, to make a parliamentary business of it; and then grinning in the officer’s face, with...

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...spectability of Mr. Vholes has even been cited with crushing effect before Parliamentary committees, as in the following blue minutes of a distinguish... ...e, “You will have the goodness to make these materials into two members of Parliament and to send them home when done.” “I regret to say, Volumnia, th... ...Church service of the ordinary supplication in behalf of the High Court of Parliament and have recommended instead that the prayers of the congregatio... ... fast asleep. Much mighty speech making there has been, both in and out of Parliament, concerning T om, and much wrathful dis putation how Tom shall ... ...ibrary, has fallen asleep for the good of the country over the report of a Parliamentary committee. My Lady sits in the room in which she gave audienc... ...e climate—for rum, but she has taken up with the rights of women to sit in Parliament, and Caddy tells me it is a mission involving more correspondenc...

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...kstead; and, as it was considered expedient that he should be brought into Parliament, his father repaired with him at once to Oakstead, and involved ... ...id Oliver, with a dry sound, apparently ex- pressing, ‘So that is what our Parliament is made of. Father well?’ he asked. ‘Quite well, thank you, sir.... ...hey were beginning their struggle with good courage, before the meeting of Parliament summoned him to London. Isabel fully justified Miss Faithfull’s ... ...easant and undignified position. Besides, there was the ensuing session of Parliament! No! Oliver must send out some trustworthy man of business, with...

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..., was prohibited in Scotland upon the Reformation, by a statute of the 6th Parliament of Queen Mary, c. 61, A. D. 1555, which ordered, under heavy pen... ...raehead discharged his duty at the banquet given to King George IV. in the Parliament House at Edinburgh, in 1822" (Lockhart). To return to the Elect...

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... many other curiosities of the time and place. He seemed moderate; blaming Parliament in sev- eral points, and especially because they had framed the ... ...d like the other landed gentlemen of Scotland, stripped by the late Act of Parliament of legal powers, he still exercised a patriarchal justice in his...

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...ia Forey, his widowed sister, said that Austin might have retired from his Parliamentary career for a time, and given up gaieties and that kind of thi... ...t a pedestal supporting the bust of Chatham, contemplating the hero of our Parliament, his eyes streaming with tears. People said the baronet carried ... ...tes, Lord Heddon, and his distant cousin Darley Absworthy, both Members of Parliament, useful men, though gouty, who had sown in their time a fine cro... ...ears most to his taste, and he can serve the people that way as well as in Parliament, should he have no stronger ambition. The clear duty of a man of... ... phenomena of London; remarks (mainly cynical) on the speeches and acts of Parliament; and reasons for not having yet been able to call on the Grandis... ...ander his money—amassed it, on the con- trary, and did not seek to go into Parliament, and did other 296 Ordeal of Richard Feverel negative wise thin... ...g his challenge in the Law Courts; nor could he well go into the Houses of Parliament with a trumpet, though to come to a tussle with the nation’s dir...

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...lord, a philosopher, and a Christian, in one: and he must be a mem- ber of Parliament. Hence her isolated air. Now, when the ladies of Brookfield hear... ... wickenham’s observation: Sir T wickenham Pryme, a statis- tical member of Parliament, a well-preserved half-century in age, a gentleman in bearing, p... ... losing her, if it must be so.” (Hear, hear! from the unani- mous internal Parliament.) “But I can’t make her miserable (cheers)—I can’t go and break ... ...ng, “Though you must have thought me what, if I were a man, you Members of Parliament would call ‘a bore,’ for asking perpetual questions.” “Nay, an a... ... out of the windows of wis- dom,” said the baronet. “Do you not require in Parliament to be tolerant at times?” Adela pursued. Ho admitted it, and to ... ...there is something divine in the idea of a teacher. I listen to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-... ...having usurped priority in that department. Frightened by his por- tentous parliamentary phraseology, she remained tolerably demure till the sitting w...

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...t domain which gave a title to one of the most opulent families of the old parliament; hammers have demolished Montmorency, which cost an Italian fol-... ... Rousseau, Constitution by some, Charter by others; Czar here, King there, Parliament in Great Britain; while in France the general levelling begun in... ... to their blind- ness!” CHAPTER XII SHOWETH HOW THE TAVERN IS THE PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT OLD MOTHER T ONSARD’S screams brought a number of people from Bl...

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...ou’ll have twenty thousand a-year, if you have a penny; and you’ll go into Parliament, and give dinners, and a woman like Peggy Lovell ‘d intrigue for... ...r. No con- stitution can stand it. All the ladies here take an interest in Parliamentary affairs. They can talk to men upon men’s themes. It is imposs... ...r to tire of it is founded on some queer belief that they are not mortal. “Parliament opens in February. My father wishes me to stand for Selborough. ... ...him; though they’re friends, and his son’ll get all the money, and go into Parliament, and cut a shine, never fear. “By the way, I’ve seen Robert, too... ...lis, which, a school for many things, is not a school for the study of our Parliamentary system, and still less for that connubial career 217 George ...

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...o take it for his reward in a country whose authorities had snubbed, whose Parliament had ignored, whose Press had abused him. The ridiculous balance ... ...ke his old Charlotte of the younger days that her brother partly laughed. ‘Parliamentary fighting ‘s not much to your taste or mine. They ‘ve lost the... ...e fatigued his body by walking the streets and the bridge of the Houses of Parliament, and he had some sleep under a roof where a life like death, or ...

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...ppose,” said Henrietta very seriously. “I am sure I should.” “His being in Parliament will content me for the present,” said Beatrice, “for I have bee... ...ng. The most noted of these employments were the looking over a new Act of Parliament with the county member, the curing grandmamma’s old gander of a ...

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...ance classes, corresponded industriously with public bodies and members of Parliament on subjects touching the interests of the service; and as to the...

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... in the reign of Louis XIV .; the dwelling, perhaps, of a president of the parliament, or that of a tranquil savant. Its noble free-stone blocks, dam-... ...ffairs; the ministers are less for France than they are for the crown, and parliament has de- termined that the administration shall have, as in Engla... ...it- self, and represent the Chamber as the Chamber represents the country, parliament will be found very liberal toward the crown. The whole question ... ... projected railways, the construction of which is always delayed by either parliamentary rivalry or parliamentary in- decision. Let us say, in passing... ...th- ened by another happiness which came to him at almost the same time. A parliamentary crisis was imminent,—a fact that caused the ministry to think... ...rade. “I have not read the morning papers.” “So,” continued Lousteau, “all parliamentary ambitions will take the field, and, if I am well informed, Mo... ...itant in it. In England they make much greater sacrifices to get a seat in Parliament; but in any case, I beg you to observe that the costs are very h... ...by numbers placed between brackets, he said:— “Tiens! are you drawing up a parliamentary law?” “Yes,” replied la Peyrade, “the law of the vanquished.”...

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...n, an ephemeral effort of the Chamber of Deputies to realize the threat of parliamentary government,—a threat a la Cromwell, which without a Cromwell ... ...produce your candidates and weigh their merits—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes... ...“if the meeting itself nominated those officers,—following, of course, the parliamentary forms of the Chamber.” “That is best,” said the huge Monsieur... ...sieurs,” continued Beauvisage, prompted by Simon, “if we are—to conform—to parliamentary usage—I shall beg—the honorable gentleman —Monsieur Pigoult—t... ...l his courage to say:— “Monsieur Simon Giguet has the floor.” IV THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY TEMPEST “MESSIEURS,” said Simon Giguet, “I ask permission to ... ...“I thank Monsieur Achille Pigoult for having insisted on the strictness of parliamentary forms. This is the first time that the arrondissement of Arci... ...is political apprenticeship; he knows the affairs of the country; he knows parliamentary necessities; he is much nearer being a statesman than my frie... ...re easily understood, that he took upon himself to speak, which is against parliamentary us- age,” said Achille Pigoult. “I think it is not necessary ... ...oolness and courage worthy of a mem- 30 The Deputy of Arcis ber of a real parliament, four personages were walking down one of the linden avenues whi...

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...e risen to par, he would have realised his shares; he would have gone into Parliament; he would have been made a bar- onet, who knows? a peer, probabl...

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... look- out for adventure. His last master, young Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns, was too ofte...

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...bsurdities of courts and the indignities of rep- 51 H G Wells resentative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opport... ...mour for representative government, and build high hopes upon a return, to parliamentary institutions. The council decided to give them everything the... ... government offices, suffered badly from the small bomb that destroyed the Parliament, there are very few traces of the old thorough- fare of Whitehal...

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...d told his friends. One of his friends re- joiced in a friend, a Member of Parliament—a zealous, an Rudyard Kipling intelligent, and, above all, a pa...