Hidden fields
Books Books
" ... of opponents, though few in number, may, by debating every sentence and word of a bill, and by dividing upon every debate, so obstruct the progress of a bill through Parliament that a whole session may be scarcely long enough for carrying through... "
Reform of Procedure in Parliament to Clear the Block of Public Business - Page 57
by William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1882 - 232 pages
Full view - About this book

The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston: With ..., Volume 1

Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1874 - 456 pages
...may be scarcely long enough for carrying through one measure ; and of course the Irish members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Radicals, would...morn, to prevent any more stringent law being enacted. The line which the members of the late Government would take in such a case would depend upon the nature...
Full view - About this book

The life of Henry John Temple, viscount Palmerston, with ..., Volume 3

William Henry L.E. Bulwer (baron Dalling and Bulwer.) - 1874 - 456 pages
...may be scarcely long enough for carrying through one measure ; and of course the Irish members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Radicals, would...morn, to prevent any more stringent law being enacted. The line which the members of the late Government would take in such a case would depend upon the nature...
Full view - About this book

The life and correspondence of Henry John Temple, viscount Palmerston, Volume 1

Anthony Evelyn M. Ashley (hon.) - 1879 - 516 pages
...one measure; and of course the Irish members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Kadicals, would sit from morn till eve, and from eve till dewy...morn, to prevent any more stringent law being enacted. The line which the members of the late Government would take in such a case would depend upon the nature...
Full view - About this book

Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-1850, Volume 1

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1880 - 802 pages
...may be scarcely long enough for carrying through one measure, and of course the Irish members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Radicals, would...to prevent any more stringent law being enacted."* O'Connell was naturally encouraged by this unexpected diversion in his favour and by the manifest embarrassment...
Full view - About this book

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1880 - 958 pages
...carrying through one measure. Of course," continued this eminent statesman, " the Irish Members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Radicals, would...to prevent any more stringent law being enacted." Those were the words of Lord Palmerston in 1844, as given in his " Life " by Mr. Evelyn Ashley. But...
Full view - About this book

Irish Seditions : Their Origin and History from 1792-1880: Ireland's Curse ...

1881 - 82 pages
...may scarcely be long enough for carrying through one measure, and, of course, Irish members on our side, and all the English and Scotch Radicals would...to prevent any more stringent law being enacted." We must now bring our review of the Repeal Agitation to a close, for after all it was only the first...
Full view - About this book

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1882 - 1122 pages
...enough for currying through one measure ; and, of course, the Irish Members on our side, and all tho English and Scotch Radicals, would sit from ' morn...to prevent any more stringent law being enacted." That showed that the Obstruction with which they had to deal had been in existence for a period of...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF