Annual Register, Volume 121Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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... Charles Dilke had given notice . The Queen's message of sympathy to the troops in South Africa , expressing Her Majesty's " entire confidence " in Lord Chelmsford , was remarked on by Lord Truro in the House of Lords on March 18. Lord ...
... Charles Dilke had given notice . The Queen's message of sympathy to the troops in South Africa , expressing Her Majesty's " entire confidence " in Lord Chelmsford , was remarked on by Lord Truro in the House of Lords on March 18. Lord ...
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... Charles Dilke and Lord Lansdowne proposed to ask Parliament to express , it might have been thought that there was no difference of opinion between the C Government and the Opposition regarding Sir Bartle Frere's con- duct 1879. ] Sir ...
... Charles Dilke and Lord Lansdowne proposed to ask Parliament to express , it might have been thought that there was no difference of opinion between the C Government and the Opposition regarding Sir Bartle Frere's con- duct 1879. ] Sir ...
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... Charles Dilke's resolution was warmly opposed and Sir Bartle Frere uncompromisingly defended by Mr. Evelyn Ashley . The speech with which Sir Charles Dilke introduced his resolution was masterly , and was universally ad- mitted to have ...
... Charles Dilke's resolution was warmly opposed and Sir Bartle Frere uncompromisingly defended by Mr. Evelyn Ashley . The speech with which Sir Charles Dilke introduced his resolution was masterly , and was universally ad- mitted to have ...
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... Charles Russell in defence , as he said , of an " old comrade and an absent man . " Mr. Evelyn Ashley objected to Sir Charles Dilke's resolu- tion that it did not fix the blame in the right quarter ; the proper way of checking abuse of ...
... Charles Russell in defence , as he said , of an " old comrade and an absent man . " Mr. Evelyn Ashley objected to Sir Charles Dilke's resolu- tion that it did not fix the blame in the right quarter ; the proper way of checking abuse of ...
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... Charles Dilke's resolution when put to the vote was rejected by a majority of 60 - the numbers being 246 ayes and 306 noes . The troubles in Afghanistan , and later in South Africa , di- verted public attention from the movement of ...
... Charles Dilke's resolution when put to the vote was rejected by a majority of 60 - the numbers being 246 ayes and 306 noes . The troubles in Afghanistan , and later in South Africa , di- verted public attention from the movement of ...
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Page 314 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
Page 332 - If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties.
Page 9 - Government are not prepared to comply with the request for a reinforcement of troops. All the information that has hitherto reached them with respect to the position of affairs in Zululand appears to them to justify a confident hope that by the exercise of prudence, and by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and...
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Page 226 - Roebuck gave notice that he would move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol, and into the conduct of those departments of the Government whose duty it had been to minister to the wants of the army.
Page 171 - When the protector died, Hale refused to receive a new commission from Richard Cromwell. In the same year, he was returned as one of the members for the university of Oxford ; and, in 1660, he appeared as knight of the shire for the county of Gloucester, in the parliament which recalled Charles II. He was not, however, for admitting the king without reasonable restrictions, being no friend to the indefeasible right of prerogative. He moved that a committee...
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Page 226 - Cambridge ; was called to the Bar by the Hon Society of the Inner Temple in 1832 ; and was returned to Parliament for the borough of Totnes at the General Election of 1852.
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