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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. Parliament has been at length prorogued, and a session of unexampled duration has closed?a session which will be noted in the annals of British history as of more importance than any preceding it since parliaments vindicated themselves; and remarkable no less for the effect it must produce upon the consolidation of our liberties, than for the display of obstinacy by the Tory aristocracy, and the tenacity with which they clung to those abuses which were the secret of the long predominance of the faction in the councils of the country. At the late period of the month in which we pen this, we are unable to detail all the measures proposed, or to go into the minuter questions of the session. Indeed, when it is recollected that the history of the Reform Bills is that of almost the whole period of the sitting, we have only to remind the reader of the circumstance, to place before him the picture of what, in its general character, is already well stamped upon his memory. We have seen the downfall of nomineeship in boroughs contested by its partizans with an intrepidity in absurd argument unmatched in the legislative assemblies of any age or country. We have seen men of acknowledged talent so indomitable in error, and so palpably wrong in attacking what militated against their private, but usurped interests, that we have preferred placing to the account of wilfulness that tenebrosity of vision, which it would have been an insult to their understandings, or a mere affectation of charity, to ascribe to any other cause. We have seen the Commons of England purify themselves, and teach the House of Peers lessons which it is to be hoped it will long remember, namely, that it can enter into no combat with the people of England, and not come out of it baffled and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458889461 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458889467 |
| Weight | 1.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.33 In |
| List Price | $41.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 600 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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