the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere long a reform of Parliament, I hold it to be the most absurd notion that .ever entered into human imagination. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the lords to stop the progress of... The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pągina 373per Sydney Smith - 1854 - 480 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 pągines
...Sydney Smith gave the following illustration of the fruitlessness of the resistance of the Lords :—' I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm at Sidmouth, und of the conduct ot the excellent Mr». Partington on that occasion. In the winter of... | |
| Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 pągines
...is likely to be immortal in both hemispheres. In the course of his speech, the witty divine said: " I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on the occasion. In the winter of 1824,... | |
| 1874 - 718 pągines
...Reform Bill, delivered at Taunton on or about the llth of October, 1831, to the following effect :— " I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...Reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824,... | |
| Henry Brewster Stanton - 1850 - 394 pągines
...is likely to be immortal in both hemispheres. In the course of his speech, the witty divine said : "I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on the occasion. In the winter of 1824,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pągines
...delivered in Taunton, in 1831, he thus ridicules the attempt of the lords to stop the PROGRESS OF REFORM. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt...reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824... | |
| 1851 - 554 pągines
...Smith's speech at Taunton, on the Lords' rejection of the Reform Bill, October, 1831, is this passage : " The attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824,... | |
| 1852 - 498 pągines
...have, for Franklin tells us, there are but two things certain in this world—death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere long a reform of Parliament, 1 hold it to be the most absurd notion that ever entered into human imagination. I do not mean to be... | |
| 1853 - 458 pągines
...have, for Franklin tells us, there are but two things certain in this world—death and taxes. As for the possibility of the House of Lords preventing ere...reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partinglon on that occasion. In the winter of 1824,... | |
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