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...ople of their own nationality, because of the disputes between Charles and his parliament, a dissension soon to be followed by civil war in England. T... ...nto yet greater national importance. The dissensions between Charles I and his Parliament had become too violent to be settled by amicable means, and ... ...first manifested itself in the doings of Barrow, who, through his influence in Parliament, secured the offer of a reward of twenty thousand pounds for...

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... the Mayor, the Chairman of the City Council and the Members of Thailand's Parliament elected from the province. The Buddhist service is followed by r...

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... for granted. This is unfortunate, and unfair by all those - farm men and women in the fields, scientists in their laboratories, and policy makers in parliaments and elsewhere, for instance - who have contributed to the development of agriculture; an enterprise that is as significant as it is exciting. The history of modern agriculture which has made possible the greatest...

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...................................................................................................................... 131 Chapter XI Of the Duration of Parliaments .......................................................................................................... 145 Chapter XII Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament? ....................................

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...rious indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call... ...esentative system if the electors do not care to choose the best member of Parliament, but choose him who will spend most money to be elected? How can... ... to do their duty towards the poorer portion of their countrymen. Yet does Parliament, or almost any of the members compos ing it, ever for an instan... ...be argued, if the classes who strike were able to make themselves heard in Parliament. It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no inten tio... ... national representation (which is in substance the history of the English Parliament), the nation has then the most favorable prospects of improvemen... ...ides. By constitutional law, the crown can refuse its assent to any act of Parliament, and can appoint to office and main tain in it any minister, in... ...e and main tain in it any minister, in opposition to the remonstrances of Parliament. But the constitutional morality of the country nullifies these ... ...le for the plans and calculations on which the disbursements are grounded. Parliament, accordingly, is not expected, nor even permitted, to originate ... ...h it. The bad measures or bad appointments of a minister may be checked by Parliament; and the interest of ministers in defending, and of rival partis...

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...A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643, noting that such censorship had never been a part of classical Greek and Roman society. The tract is full of biblical and classical references which Milton us...

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...n starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine right of kings and the growing role of Parliament in the governing of the country. He sees the accession of William and Mary (Dutch, Protestant royalty) to the British throne as a key moment in the history of the British Isles. This is a book delightful for the li...

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...n starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine right of kings and the growing role of Parliament in the governing of the country. He sees the accession of William and Mary (Dutch, Protestant royalty) to the British throne as a key moment in the history of the British Isles. This is a book delightful for the li...

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...n starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is primarily fascinated by ending of any claim to divine right of kings and the growing role of Parliament in the governing of the country. He sees the accession of William and Mary (Dutch, Protestant royalty) to the British throne as a key moment in the history of the British Isles. This is a book delightful for the li...

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... to manage his feebleness, she easily carried her point with him. But, the Parliament were determined to give him no money for such a war. So, to defy... ...ament were determined to give him no money for such a war. So, to defy the Parliament, he packed up thirty large casks of silver—I don’t know how he g... ...clever. But he only got well beaten, and came home. The good humour of the Parliament was not restored by this. They reproached the King with wasting ... ... Barons said that if he would solemnly confirm their liberties afresh, the Parliament would vote him a large sum. As he readily consented, there was a... ... man in England against the foreign favourites. When the King next met his Parliament, the Barons, led by this Earl, came before him, armed from head ... ...l, came before him, armed from head to foot, and cased in armour. When the Parliament again assembled, in a month’s time, at Oxford, this Earl was at ... ...up the Committee of Government, and all the rest that had been done by the Parliament at Oxford: which the Royal ists, or King’s party, scornfully ca... ... Oxford: which the Royal ists, or King’s party, scornfully called the Mad Parliament. The Barons declared that these were not fair terms, and they wo... ... with him wherever he went, like a poor old limp court card. He summoned a Parliament (in the year one thousand two hundred and sixty five) which was ...

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...her curious, that Middle- Age Catholicism was abolished, so far as Acts of Parliament could abolish it, before Shakspeare, the noblest product of it, ... ...Heroes might be necessary, sent him forth; taking small thought of Acts of Parliament. King Henrys, Queen Elizabeths go their way; and Nature too goes... ...g Henrys, Queen Elizabeths go their way; and Nature too goes hers. Acts of Parliament, on the whole, are small, notwithstanding the noise they make. W... ... on the whole, are small, notwithstanding the noise they make. What Act of Parliament, debate at St. Stephen’s, on the hustings or elsewhere, was it t... ...ts are here to accomplish: what is it that will ac- complish this? Acts of Parliament, administrative prime-min- isters cannot. America is parted from... ...inistrative prime-min- isters cannot. America is parted from us, so far as Parliament could part it. Call it not fantastic, for there is much reality ... ...ch reality in it: Here, I say, is an English King, whom no time or chance, Parliament or combination of Parliaments, can dethrone! This King Shakspear... ...t moment in the Modern History of Men. English Puritanism, England and its Parliaments, Americas, and vast work these two centuries; French Revolu- 1... ...ling, what we all call the “Glorious Revolution” a Habeas Corpus Act, Free Parliaments, and much else!—Alas, is it not too true what we said, That man...

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...s,) against a bundle of bank-notes, or a yard of blue ribbon, or a seat in Parliament; and some for the mere pleasure and excitement of the sport; as ... ...had got the estate into a better condition than ever it had been since the Parliamentary wars; and my lord was now master of a pretty, small income, n... ...been ambassador in King Williamn’s time, and a noble speaker in the Scots’ Parliament, where he had led the party that was against the Union, and thou... ...e original creation. His Grace took the oaths and his seat in the Scottish parliament in 1700: was famous there for his patriotism and eloquence, es- ... ...ton had received the same honor, sent to the Colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out m... ...reedom and independence submitted their religious consciences to an Act of Parliament; could not consolidate their liberty without sending to Zell or ... ...oo, and in the line of succession to the crown, had, a right to sit in the Parliament whereof he was a member, and to dwell in the country which he on... ...secret; great in station and humble; about the Court and the Queen; in the Parliament, Church, and among the mer- 99 Thackeray chants in the City. Th... ...r, that scouts the old doctrine of right divine, that boldly declares that Parliament and people consecrate the Sovereign, not bishops, nor genealogie...

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...t is written by a lord, or a bishop, or a privy counsellor, or a member of Parliament—though, undoubtedly, it will do an instant service—it will sell ... ... faction between two infuriated parties. ‘Cato,’ coming from a man without Parliamentary connections, would have dropped life- less to the ground. The... ...nd thoughts, Government gave him a red ribbon. He represented a borough in Parliament. He was an authority upon Indian affairs. He was caressed by the... ...ved, unless they live in men’s memory by something better than speeches in Parliament. Having the usual fate, Fox was complimented, whilst living, on ... ...eir various public duties in Lon- don, as at court, at public meetings, in parliament, &c., bring crowded claims upon their time; whilst even sacrific... ...ffice of regent than any lamp-lighter or scavenger. It was the province of Parliament exclusively to legislate for the particular case. The practical ... ...m ‘warming- pans,’ are men who occupy, by consent, some official place, or Parliamentary seat, until the proper claimant is old enough in law to assum... ...as been allowed by many persons to vitiate all that was done by the heroic parliament of November, 1640: and the ordi- nary histories of England assum... ...histories of England assume as a matter of course that the whole period of parliamentary history through those times is to be regarded as a period of ...

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...pretends to have circulated a little MS. on the king’s behalf, against the Parliament; he never could produce this MS., by the by; but he says that, “... ... this MS., by the by; but he says that, “Had not his Majesty dissolved the Parliament,” (in May,) “it had brought him into danger of his life.” Dissol... ...t,” (in May,) “it had brought him into danger of his life.” Dissolving the Parliament, however, was of no use; for, in November of the same year, the ... ...ament, however, was of no use; for, in November of the same year, the Long Parliament as- sembled, and Hobbes, a second time, fearing he should be mur... ...iers were con- stantly at his throat, recollecting how they had served the Parliament ambassadors at the Hague and Madrid. “T urn,” says he, in his do... ...rned in that operation; so that, perhaps, it would have required an act of parliament to re- store its purity of blood. What words, then, could expres... ...more than snakes in Van T roil’s Ice- land; except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hides his shame in the “coal cellar.” And, as... ...erful established interests, a large system of new arrangements, and a new parliamentary statute. As things were at present, twice in the year so vast... ...into his mouth at once. “We took a mouthful,” says Sir William Waller, the Parliamentary general, “took a mouthful; paid our reckoning; mounted; and w...

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...ght. I see marauder runagates Across us shoot their dusky wink; I hear the parliament of chats In haws beside the river’s brink; And drops the vole of...

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...Webb will request permission to leave the army, and return to his place in Parliament, where he gives notice to his Grace the Commander-in Chief, that...

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... of low stuff in it about a country gentleman come up to town to stand for parliament man; and there they brought a parcel of his servants upon the st... ...and lays up £200 a year out of it, in order to purchase a seat in the next parliament from a neighbouring borough, which he has bargained for with an ...

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...gh he suffered from numerous pettinesses, spites and failings, he was in himself a large-brained self-educated Titan whose natural field was found in Parliament and whose resources of character and intellect enabled him in his later years to overshadow all his contemporaries. Parkes's literary work includes six volumes of verse, Stolen Moments (1842), Murmurs of the Stream...

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...ation and widespread revolts against feudalism‘s hierarchal authority. Parliament reacted to the 1381 Peasants Revolt by levying a new poll tax an... ...in his Areopagitica speech—a 1644 prose polemical tract—John Milton urged Parliament to preserve for the English the liberty of unlicensed printing....

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...i- dency of the Council. The European Council shall submit to the European Parliament a report after each of its meetings and a yearly written report ... ...itten report on the progress achieved by the Union. ARTICLE E The European Parliament, the Council, the Commis- sion and the Court of Justice shall ex... ...mmunity shall be car- ried out by the following institutions: - a EUROPEAN Parliament, - a COUNCIL, - a COMMISSION, - a COURT OF JUSTICE, - a COURT OF... ... proposal from the Commission after obtaining the assent of the Euro- pean Parliament. ARTICLE 8b 1. Every citizen of the Union residing in a Member S... ...sly, on a proposal from the Commis- sion and after consulting the European Parliament; these arrangements may provide for derogations where warranted ... ...mously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament; these arrangements may provide for dero- gations where warrante... ...Every citizen of the Union shall have the right to peti- tion the European Parliament in accordance with Ar- ticle 138d. Every citizen of the Union ma... ...mously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament, may adopt provisions to strengthen or to add to the rights laid... ...usly on a proposal from the Commission and after consult- ing the European Parliament, shall decide on direc- tives the implementation of which involv...

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................................................... 90 CHAPTER XXXIV THE LONG PARLIAMENT. A.D. 1641—1649.......................................... 93 CHA... ...r it no longer, the barons all met him at the council which was called the Parliament, from a French word meaning talk. This time they came in armor, ... ...ward III., and George III. In the reign of Henry III. the custom of having Parliaments was established, and the king was pre- vented from getting mone... ...from getting money from the people unless the Par- liament granted it. The Parliament has, ever since, been made up of great lords, who are born to it... ...ng himself forward—and the king was very much afraid of him. One day, when Parliament met, the king stood up, and commanded Henry of Lancaster to tell... ...ner and carried him to Henry. He was taken to London, and there set before Parliament, to confess that he had ruled so ill that he was unworthy to rei... ...g. And very strangely, Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, was, at the meeting of Parliament, accused of high treason and sent to prison, where, in a few day... ...use of their Church. So these men agreed that on the day of the meeting of Parliament, when the king, with the queen and Prince of Wales, would all be... ...an Catholic to govern England. They hired some cellars under the Houses of Parliament, and stored them with barrels of gunpowder, hidden by fag- gots;...