 | 1832 - 616 pages
...into the general state of the representation ; because such an inquiry, he contended, was calculated to fill the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms. On introducing his first motion relative to parliamentary reform, in 1819, he made a very temperate... | |
 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pages
...into the general state of the representation ; because such an inquiry, he contended, was calculated to fill the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms. In 1819, he introduced his first motion for parliamentary reform in a temperate speech, which he concluded... | |
 | Parliamentary and political miscellany - 1851 - 714 pages
...a subsequent page. general state of the representation, because such an inquiry was calcu- J lated to throw a slur upon the representation of the country, and to Qoeiuoniami fill the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms. The expresses in hon, baronet,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1855 - 740 pages
...such boroughs as are notoriously corrupt, and I will give my consent to any measure that will limit the duration of Parliament to three years. I cannot,...the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarm." — Par!. Deb. xli. p. 1106, and xl. p. 1440. and after the death of its leader, was still... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 722 pages
...of the representation, because such an inquiry is caleulated to throw a slur upon the repretfntatlon of the country, and to fill the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarm." — Part. Deb. xli. p. 1106, and xl. p. 1440. f " Now, what remains behind ?" said Mr Huskisson,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1858 - 794 pages
...length of proposing an inquiry into the general state of the representation, because such an inquiry was calculated to throw a slur upon the representation...minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms.' On the division, however, 58 members voted with Sir Francis, against 153. 'More success attended Lord... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1861 - 320 pages
...length of proposing an inquiry into the general state of the representation, because such an inquiry was calculated to throw a slur upon the representation...minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms. In a few years after this noted speech, Lord John Russell was at the head of the reforming party in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 pages
...length of proposing an inquiry into the general state of the representation, because such an inquiry was calculated to throw a slur upon the representation...minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms." t At the close of the session, lord John Russell announced his intention, on the next meeting of Parliament,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1865 - 512 pages
...length of proposing an inquiry into the general state of the representation, because such an inquiry was calculated to throw a slur upon the representation...minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms." On the division, however, 58 members voted with Sir Francis, against 153. More success attended Lord... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...was represented by Lord John Russell. On the 1st of .July, 1819, he said, in the House of Commons — "I agree in the propriety of disfranchising such boroughs...minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms." On the 14th of December, his lordship unfolded his plan. " I come now," he said, " to the resolutions... | |
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... calculated to throw a slur upon the representation of the country, and to fill the minds of the people with vague and indefinite alarms. 
