Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria: From Original Family Documents, Band 1Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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Seite 352 - I WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Seite 231 - The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dissolution of social order.
Seite 231 - ... pride of a fatal consistency, but of history, of reason, of the ages which are past, of the signs of this most portentous time. Pronounce in a manner worthy of the expectation with which this great Debate has been anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. Renew the youth of the State. Save property divided against itself. Save the multitude, endangered by their own ungovernable passions.
Seite 231 - Save the greatest, and fairest, and most highly civilized community that ever existed, from calamities which may in a few days sweep away all the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdom and glory. The danger is terrible. The time is short.
Seite 109 - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
Seite 354 - Guards, headed by their lieutenant and standard-bearer; then came the groom of the stole, the gold stick and the master of the horse, the captains of the Yeomen of the Guard and of the Gentlemen Pensioners (Lord Foley) and of the Archer Guard of Scotland (Duke of Buccleugh), and a few other subordinates of the royal household. All having been conducted to their appointed places at the conclusion of the anthem, the King attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Deputy Lord...
Seite 230 - Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform that you may preserve. Now, therefore, while everything at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age, now, while the crash of the proudest throne of the continent is still resounding in our ears, now, while the roof of a British palace affords ignominious shelter to the exiled heir of forty kings...
Seite 366 - To the consideration of this important question, the attention of parliament must necessarily again be called at the opening of the ensuing session ; and you may be assured of my unaltered desire to promote its settlement, by such improvements in the representation as may be found necessary for securing to my people the full enjoyment of their rights, which, in combination with those of the other orders of the state, are essential to the support of our free constitution.
Seite 24 - I could have wished to prevent ; but in the midst of this magnanimous transport of the capital, and of all the other French cities, at the sight of order reviving with marvellous promptness after a resistance free from all excesses, a just national pride nerves my heart, and I look forward with confidence to the future destiny of the country. Yes, gentlemen," he continued, "France, which is so dear to me, will be happy and free.
Seite 172 - Sovereign title shall descend to him or her ; and it is hereby declared that the Princess Victoria's right shall cease and determine; and that such child shall be, and shall be deemed and taken to be, and is hereby declared to be, the lawful Sovereign of these realms, in the...