Mr. T. Burt. Lord Hartington. Sir R. Peel. Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Fawcett. Sir S. Northcote. 'Punch.' Prince Gortschakoff. Sir W. Lawson. Mr. Forster. Mr. Chaplin. Mr. Goschen. Mr. Parnell. The speakerGriffith & Farran, 1880 - Great Britain |
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... speech , for example , as that which he recently made at Newcastle , would have done credit to any of the statesmen who have nothing but their abilities and their zeal to trust to for the maintenance of their position in their party ...
... speech , for example , as that which he recently made at Newcastle , would have done credit to any of the statesmen who have nothing but their abilities and their zeal to trust to for the maintenance of their position in their party ...
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... speech must in all probability have cut short his official career . Hardly less flagrant were the breaches of official and Parliamentary usage of which he was guilty when he described that very worthy and inoffensive person The O ...
... speech must in all probability have cut short his official career . Hardly less flagrant were the breaches of official and Parliamentary usage of which he was guilty when he described that very worthy and inoffensive person The O ...
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... speech as this must have made him utterly unfit to act as a responsible member of a Ministry . a young man one or two of these escapades might possibly have been tolerated . But Sir Robert , when no longer in his first youth , continued ...
... speech as this must have made him utterly unfit to act as a responsible member of a Ministry . a young man one or two of these escapades might possibly have been tolerated . But Sir Robert , when no longer in his first youth , continued ...
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... speeches ! It is this eccentricity of action which makes the Member for Tam- worth appear like a new comet whenever he rises in the House of Commons . No- body knows ... speech upon any special subject is the line he Sir Robert Peel . 57.
... speeches ! It is this eccentricity of action which makes the Member for Tam- worth appear like a new comet whenever he rises in the House of Commons . No- body knows ... speech upon any special subject is the line he Sir Robert Peel . 57.
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Thomas Wemyss Reid. his speech upon any special subject is the line he takes on that subject revealed to the world . It must be confessed that there is some- thing refreshing in such fetterless independ- ence as this , though it is at ...
Thomas Wemyss Reid. his speech upon any special subject is the line he takes on that subject revealed to the world . It must be confessed that there is some- thing refreshing in such fetterless independ- ence as this , though it is at ...
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