The Baronage and the Senate: Or, The House of Lords in the Past, the Present, and the FutureJ. Murray, 1893 - 414 Seiten |
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... principle as that which governs the descent of the British Crown . The feudal system was first introduced into Scotland by David I. ( 1124-1153 ) , and extended , as opportunity offered , by his successors . The first Earls in Scotland ...
... principle as that which governs the descent of the British Crown . The feudal system was first introduced into Scotland by David I. ( 1124-1153 ) , and extended , as opportunity offered , by his successors . The first Earls in Scotland ...
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... principle of far - reaching consequence has been newly imbedded in the constitution of the Upper Chamber . From the ... principle of the representation of heredity by further selection , from the other the principle of qualification by ...
... principle of far - reaching consequence has been newly imbedded in the constitution of the Upper Chamber . From the ... principle of the representation of heredity by further selection , from the other the principle of qualification by ...
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... seemed scarcely fair to include them . On the same principle , the 1847 Barony of Acheson , the 1861 Barony of Herbert of Lea , and the 1864 Barony of Buckhurst , created on the advice of Liberal Ministers , have been excluded.
... seemed scarcely fair to include them . On the same principle , the 1847 Barony of Acheson , the 1861 Barony of Herbert of Lea , and the 1864 Barony of Buckhurst , created on the advice of Liberal Ministers , have been excluded.
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... principle " that is arraigned with pompous incoherence , and we are told that the House of Lords ought to be abolished because every eldest son of a great man does not as a matter of course inherit the paternal genius . Sometimes it is ...
... principle " that is arraigned with pompous incoherence , and we are told that the House of Lords ought to be abolished because every eldest son of a great man does not as a matter of course inherit the paternal genius . Sometimes it is ...
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... principle " stand in any danger of being called in question if its practical working were now , as it was once , to give a standing Liberal majority in the Upper Chamber . The proof of a pudding is in the eating , and to the Radical ...
... principle " stand in any danger of being called in question if its practical working were now , as it was once , to give a standing Liberal majority in the Upper Chamber . The proof of a pudding is in the eating , and to the Radical ...
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Seite 74 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept thro' scoundrels ever since the flood, Go!
Seite 110 - would be co-equal with the British name, and it would be remembered that he had obtained the greatest naval victory on record •' when no man would think of asking, Whether he had been created a baron, a viscount, or an earl...
Seite 86 - Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar ; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave ; "Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave.
Seite 67 - When Henry VII. called his first parliament, there were only twenty-nine temporal peers to be found, and even some of them took their seats illegally, for they had been attainted. Of those twenty-nine not five remain, and they, as the Howards for instance, are not Norman nobility. We owe the English peerage to three sources : the spoliation of the church ; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts ; and the boroughmongering of our own times.
Seite 118 - America, which is beyond all other countries the country of a "career open to talents," a country, moreover, in which political life is unusually keen and political ambition widely diffused, it might be expected that the highest place would always be won by a man of brilliant gifts. But...
Seite 155 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
Seite 67 - We owe the English peerage to three sources : the spoliation of the Church ; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts ; and the boroughmongering of our own times. Those are the three main sources of the existing peerage of England, and in my opinion disgraceful ones.
Seite 67 - Saxon families in this county who can trace their pedigrees beyond the Conquest ; I know of some Norman gentlemen whose fathers undoubtedly came over with the Conqueror. But a peer with an ancient lineage is to me quite a novelty. No, no ; the thirty years of the wars of the Roses freed us from those gentlemen. I take it, after the battle of Tewkesbury, a Norman baren was almost as rare a being in England as a wolf is now.
Seite 111 - I can do no more. We must trust to the great Disposer of all events, and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this great opportunity of doing my duty.
Seite 110 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family. I should have left a son, who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...