Victoria Regina, Her Court and Her Subjects, from Her Accession to the Death of the Prince-Consort, Volumen2Hutchinson & Company, 1908 - 630 páginas |
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... became the scene of carnage and cruelty . Eventually the Emperor Ferdinand resigned in favour of his nephew Francis Joseph . An insurrection in Munich , March , 1848 , obliged Ludwig I. of Bavaria to abdicate in favour of his son . The ...
... became the scene of carnage and cruelty . Eventually the Emperor Ferdinand resigned in favour of his nephew Francis Joseph . An insurrection in Munich , March , 1848 , obliged Ludwig I. of Bavaria to abdicate in favour of his son . The ...
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... became the effort of every individual present in the excited crowd . At a moment when , erect and jubilant , he stood bareheaded waiting to address that vast sea of human beings whose excited passions he might be unable to control , a ...
... became the effort of every individual present in the excited crowd . At a moment when , erect and jubilant , he stood bareheaded waiting to address that vast sea of human beings whose excited passions he might be unable to control , a ...
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... became silent , and orators were soaked . Taken from the guardianship of the golden lions , the petition was unceremoniously thrust into a hackney cab and driven to the House of Commons to be presented later in the day . When the shower ...
... became silent , and orators were soaked . Taken from the guardianship of the golden lions , the petition was unceremoniously thrust into a hackney cab and driven to the House of Commons to be presented later in the day . When the shower ...
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... became impatient with O'Connell's legal methods to obtain a separate legislation for their country , and advocated physical force . The final severance of the Young Irelanders , as they were called , from the Repeal Association , took ...
... became impatient with O'Connell's legal methods to obtain a separate legislation for their country , and advocated physical force . The final severance of the Young Irelanders , as they were called , from the Repeal Association , took ...
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... became less and less . While reading in his library in his house in South Street , October 23 , 1842 , he had a sudden but slight stroke of paralysis which left him un- conscious for some hours . On recovering a fortnight later he ...
... became less and less . While reading in his library in his house in South Street , October 23 , 1842 , he had a sudden but slight stroke of paralysis which left him un- conscious for some hours . On recovering a fortnight later he ...
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Página 524 - Secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 523 - The Queen requires, first, that Lord Palmerston will distinctly state what he proposes in a given case, in order that the Queen may know as distinctly to what she is giving her Royal sanction. Secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister.
Página 518 - Festival,' which united the industry of all nations of the earth — all this was moving indeed, and it was and is a day to live forever.
Página 361 - I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet ; but merely think of the pure, absolute, honest ignorance in which all worldlings of every rank and situation must be enveloped, with respect to the thoughts, feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends.
Página 497 - Upon this subject, then, I will only say that the present state of the law shall be carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting any proceedings with reference to the recent assumptions of power deliberately considered.
Página 559 - A very considerable section of the nation had never given itself the trouble to consider what really is the position of the husband of a Queen Regnant. When I first came over here, I was met by this want of knowledge and unwillingness to give a thought to the position of this luckless personage. Peel cut down my income, Wellington refused me my rank, the Royal Family cried out against the Foreign interloper...
Página 361 - It is an awful truth, that there neither is, nor can be, any genuine enjoyment of Poetry among nineteen out of twenty of those persons who live, or wish to live, in the broad light of the world — among those who either are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society.
Página 524 - Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they...
Página 452 - I had nothing to love. My parents were — in a sort — visible powers of nature to me, no more loved than the sun and the moon...
Página 517 - I did not sit on) were placed, with the beautiful crystal fountain just in front of it, was magical, so vast, so glorious, so touching. One felt — as so many did whom I have since spoken to — filled with, devotion more so than by any service I have ever heard. The tremendous cheers, the joy expressed in every face, the immensity of the building, the mixture of palms, flowers, trees, statues, fountains — the organ (with 200 instruments and 600 voices, which sounded like nothing), and my beloved...