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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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...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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...all the incalculable genera- tions that had trot this earth before us. The Parliament of living men, Lords and Commons united, what a miserable array ... ...ed, what a miserable array against the Upper and Lower House composing the Parliament of ghosts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing ... ...orms how afflicting must that necessity have sometimes occurred during the Parliamentary war! And, in after years, amongst our beautiful old English m... ...fect we adopt that view of the case in giving the title of imperial to the parliament, or common assembly of the three kingdoms. However, the title of... ...ing abuse connected with this subject. In the year 1811 or 1810 came under parliamentary notice and revision the law of copy- right. In some excellent... ...ing Lord Altamont. He had no doubt received his ribbon as a reward for his parliamentary votes, and especially in the matter of the union; yet, from a... ...opular violence put force upon 198 Thomas de Quincey the recorded will of Parliament, and compel the two Houses to perpetuate themselves. Dolorous th... ...e was? Were they, in any sense, dependent on the sacrifice of her separate parliament? For my part, I believe that Mr. Pitt’s motive for insisting on ... ...e, the wish to exonerate himself from the intolerable vexation of a double parliament. In a govern- ment such as ours, so care-laden at any rate, it i...

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...we have is that in 1554 he received the appoint- ment of councillor in the Parliament of Bordeaux; in 1559 he was at Bar-le-Duc with the court of Fran... ...year, he espoused Francoise de Chassaigne, daughter of a councillor in the Parliament of Bordeaux. The history of his early married life vies in obscu... ...dressed to him the present letter.]—the King’s Councillor in his Court and Parliament of Paris. Monsieur,—The business of the Sieur de V erres, a pris... ...moreover, alter us for the better. 192 Essays: Book the First Some of our Parliaments, when they are to admit officers, examine only their learning; ...

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...e had some business impediment—I am even now wait- ing a deputation of chiefs about the road—and my pre- cious morning was shattered by a polite old s... ...litics are on the full job again, and we don’t know what is to come next. I think the whole treaty RAJ seems quite played out!They have taken to bribi... ...p. From such small causes do these valuable considerations flow! I shall now say adieu, dear Sir, having ten rugged miles before me and the horrors of... ... our boys, for whom his confounded house is like a fly-paper for flies. To add to all this, there was on the Saturday a great public presentation of f...

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...at score. What “my lord” said and what “my lord” did, how useful he was in Parliament and how indispensable at Oxford, formed the daily burden of her ... ...sire, M. sometimes read to me chapters from more recent works, or parts of parliamentary debates. I saw that these were generally the very dregs and r... ...cally familiar with one period of English history, viz., the period of the Parliamentary War, having been attracted by the moral grandeur of some who ...

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...more than snakes in V on T roil’s Iceland;* except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hides his shame in what I have shown to be th... ...established interests, 2, a large system of new arrangements, and 3, a new parliamentary statute. But as yet this change was merely in contemplation. ... ...e Quincey taint,” and his deprivations extend to his descendants, un- less Parliament remove the attainder. 4 14 PARIAHS: The fate of social outcasts ... .... There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’” 9 25 A PARLIAMENTARY RAT: one who deserts his own party when it is losing. 10 16 “...

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...etters were rare and very expensive articles unless franked by a Member of Parliament, but gazettes and newsletters formed a large portion of his frei...

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...ne had just insulted him. “On one side its a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I’m neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement ... ...ith noiseless steps about the room of a sick man; if she read of a member of Parliament making a speech, she longed to be delivering the speech; if sh... ... at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament. . . ” “Undoubtedly.” “But if women, as a rare exception, can ... ...d he did not repeat the question. “I’m sorry I’ve broken in on your feminine parliament,” he said, looking round on every one discontentedly, and perc... ...even smiled serenely at his joke about the elec tions, which he called “our parliament.” (She had to smile to show she saw the joke.) But she turned ...

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...ppens to a person who wants honor or power: he wants to be elected to the parliament, to become the next president, everything else is second to that...

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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)...

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... that all this singing denotes the conclusion of two yearly ecclesiastical parliaments – the parliaments of Churches which are brothers in many admira... ...th truth: ‘The house that I was born in fell last night!’ CHAPTER III. THE PARLIAMENT CLOSE. TIME HAS WROUGHT its changes most notably around the pre-... ...urch, running downhill to the Cowgate and covering the site of the present Parliament House. It has disappeared as utterly as the prison or the Lucken... ...n one side the south wall of the church, on the other the ar- cades of the Parliament House, enclose this irregular bight of causeway and describe the... ...s motley passengers; but the stream goes by, east and west, and leaves the Parliament Close to Charles the Second and the birds. Once in a while, a pa... ...ertain regular hours a whole tide of lawyers hurries across the space. The Parliament Close has been the scene of marking inci- dents in Scottish hist... ...en of them gath- ered together with pale faces and stood in a cloud in the Parliament Close:’ poor episcopal personages who were done with fair weathe... ...re that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would have said, r... ...s his trials (examinations as we now say) for the Scottish Bar, beheld the Parliament Close open and had a vision of the mouth of Hell. This, and smal...

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............................................................. 166 BOOK 2.V . PARLIAMENT FIRST ............................................................. ...class, these Parlements. They can be bullied, even into silence; the Paris Parliament, wiser than most, has never whimpered. They 14 The French Revol... ...erence be- tween our two kinds of civil war; between the modern lingual or Parliamentary-logical kind, and the ancient, or manual kind, in the steel b... ...e no victory yet definable can be considered as final. Beat him down, with Parliamentary invective, till sense be fled; cut him in two, hanging one ha... ...easure, at what point he becomes 19 Thomas Carlyle logically defunct, can Parliamentary Business be carried on, and Talk cease or slake? Doubtless it... ...what tyrant would deny it to Son of Adam! Nay, might there not be a Female Parliament too, with ‘screams from the Opposition benches,’ and ‘the honour... ...ches,’ and ‘the honourable Member borne out in hysterics?’ To a Children’s Parliament would I gladly consent; or even lower if ye wished it. Beloved B... ...set up again—on its vertex; and will stand while it can be held. BOOK 2.V. PARLIAMENT FIRST Chapter 2.5.I. Grande Acceptation. In the last nights of S... ..., to give it permanence, and even eter- nity, has been forgotten. Biennial Parliament, to be called Legislative, Assemblee Legislative; with Seven Hun...

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...st they shout, `Down with Mazarin!’ I, unknown, and unperceived by them, incite them to cry out, `Long live the Duke de Beaufort’ one day; an- other, ... ...`Long live the Prince de Conde;’ and again, `Long live the parliament!’” And at this word the smile on the cardinal’s lips assumed an expression of ha... ...r knees before their sovereign, and that they might move her to compas- sion; but they were prevented by the royal guard and the queen proceeded on he... ...the opportu- nity of calling out his guard, the Swiss troops and the mus- keteers, and he had planted them round the Palais Royal, on the quays, and o... ...lence of a vast multitude to the Palais Royal. All minds were uneasy, most were fore- boding, many of the people used threatening language. At first, ... ... entered and ap- peared in a few minutes bringing the dress demanded. The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take off the robes of sta... ...of his party, his resources.” “It is true—the queen is for him.” “Something in his favor.” “But he will never have the king.” “A mere child.” “A child... ...nd Hannibal had but one eye.” “Do you see any great advantage in adhering to this party?” asked D’Artagnan. “I foresee in it the aid of powerful princ... ..., I think he acted very generously.” “Generously! to men who had risked their lives for him, and besides had done him a great service?” “A great servi...

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...n, dissolves itself, what it has done. ASSEMBLY, Legislative, First French Parliament, book of law, dispute with King, Baiser de Lamourette, High Cour... ...l Guard, disbanded. BRISSOT, edits ‘Moniteur, ’ friend of Blacks, in First Parliament, plans in 1792, active in Assembly, in Jacobins, at Roland’s, pe... ...tille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Social, in First Parliament, motion by, doffs his insignia, King’s death, lamentation, will ... ... right of, last Sansculottic, of Baboeuf. ISNARD, Max, notice of, in First Parliament, on Ministers, to demolish Paris. JACOB, Jean Claude, father of ... ...rles, Duke de Castries, brothers become constitutional, Theodore, in First Parliament. LAMOIGNON, Keeper of Seals, dismissed, effigy burned, and death... .... LAWYERS, their influence on the Revolution, number of, in Tiers Etat, in Parliament First. LAZARE, Maison de St., plundered. LEBAS at Strasburg, arr... ...sted and guillo- tined. ROSIERE, Thuriot de la, summons Bastille, in First Parliament, in National Convention, President at Robespierre’s fall. ROSSIG... ...Right after King’s flight, Right quits As- sembly, Right and Left in First Parliament. SIEYES, Abbe, account of, Constitution-builder, in Champ-de- Ma...

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...t, ye lose all! It is not without a dramatic emotion that one reads in the Parliamentary Debates of this Wednesday evening ‘past seven o’clock,’ the s... ...r Ex- Members, Deputy Journeau, who chanced to be lying in arrest for mere Parliamentary delinquencies, in these Pris- ons. As for poor old Dusaulx an... ...zing manner, will work the appointment of Heaven. Of National Assemblages, Parliaments, Congresses, which have long sat; which are of saturnine temper... ...; to praise and love it has not been found impossible. It is, as we say, a Parliament in the most original circumstances. To us, in these pages, be it... ...per).) An honourable member like this Friend of the People few terrestrial Parliaments have had. We observe, however, that this first onslaught by the... ...ad; and can be seen growing also, very curiously, in this mighty welter of Parliamentary Debate, of Public Business which the Convention has to do. A ... ...uis looks round him, with composed air, to see what kind of Convention and Parliament it is. Much changed indeed:—since February gone two years, when ... ...m; (1st February; 7th March (Moniteur of these dates).)—a point of immense Parliamentary and Journalis- tic interest in those days, but which has beco... ...t, and generally with the Authorities of the Departments, and such as read Parliamentary Debates, and are of Respectability, and of a peace-loving mon...

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... whom they styled, not Revolutionaries, but revolted subjects, or, in more parliamentary language, they had no dealings with Liberals or Constitutionn... ... quite as much at Court as on the battlefield, in diplomatic circles as in Parliament, with a book, or in connection with an adventure; it is, as it w... ...nd wit so well. Chesnel paid for it all, not with- out using, like ancient parliaments, the right of protest, albeit he spoke with angelic kindness. “... ...go of maidenliness and muslin, in sweet looks as much studied as an Act of Parliament. And if the one man, who is in duty bound to believe in feminine... ...informed with monarchical enthusiasm, atoned for the errors of the ancient parliaments, and walked, per- haps, too ostentatiously hand in hand with re...

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...os. Topham, of the city of London, alderman and goldsmith, who, taking the Parliamentary side in the troubles then com- mencing, disappointed Sir Geor... ...orders, who was slain whilst defending the House of Castlewood against the Parliament, anno 1647. George Lord Castlewood (the second Viscount), of Kin... ... their dependants wear the one or the other party’s color; and even in the parliaments in the servants’ hall or the stables, Harry, who had an early o...

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...at they obiect against your House, 1050 Shall be whipt out in the next Parliament, 1051 Call’d for the Truce of Winchester and Gloucester: ... ...ubt not, but with Honor to redresse. 1198 And therefore haste I to the Parliament, 1199 Eyther to be restored to my Blood, 1200 Or make my... ...ollow. 1495 They whisper together in counsell. 1496 God speed the Parliament: who shall be the Speaker? [l2v 1497 Talb. Dare yee co...

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...d already benefited his country by sitting out one session of the colonial parliament, and had satisfied himself that he did no other good than that o...