Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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Page 529 - No action or proceeding shall be open to objection on the ground that a merely declaratory judgment or order is sought thereby, and the court may make binding declarations of right whether any consequential relief is or could be claimed or not.
Page 147 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band ; And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Page 369 - ... the great producing interests endure can be alleviated or removed by a recurrence to the laws which, previously to 1846, protected them from such calamities. The spirit of the age tends to free intercourse, and no statesman can disregard with impunity the genius of the epoch in which he lives. But every principle of abstract justice and every consideration of high policy counsel that the producer should be treated as fairly as the consumer, and intimate that when the native producer is thrown...
Page 203 - I entertain no doubt, that the disorders which originate in hatred of Protestantism, have been increased by the Maynooth education of the Catholic priesthood.
Page 835 - This deposit, however, is the source of several evils ; it renders the cisterns foul, and runs off into those pipes which issue from or near the bottom of the reservoirs. By the agitation which accompanies every fresh influx of water, this deposit is constantly stirred up, and becomes a renewed source of contamination to the whole mass ; and although chiefly consisting of earthy substances in a state of minute division, it is apt also to contain such proportion of organic matters as will occasion...
Page 723 - I believe every man is brave — but well-organized troops. Take the battle of Waterloo ; look at the number of British troops at that battle. I can tell your Lordships, that in that battle there were sixteen battalions of Hanoverian militia, just formed, under the command of the late Hanoverian Ambassador here — Count Kielmansegge — who behaved most admirably ; and there were many other foreign troops who nobly aided us in that battle, avowedly the battle of giants...
Page 147 - Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepared Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Page 191 - ... be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been there committed...
Page 417 - ... master of industry, the stomach, has been well satisfied. Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper. With such a diet, how much better is he than an...
Page 723 - Europe, that has now lasted for 32 or 34 years. I say that, however much I admire highly-disciplined troops, and most especially British disciplined troops, I tell you, you must not suppose that others cannot become so too ; and no doubt, if you begin with the formation of corps under this Act of Parliament, they will in time become what their predecessors in the militia were ; and if ever they do become what the former militia were, you may rely on it they will perform all the services they may...

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