 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...Bill and its consequences. Sir Robert Peel answers this sophism with equal truth and dignity: — ' But the Reform Bill, it is said, constitutes a new...country would attempt to disturb either by direct or hy insidious means. Then, as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1835 - 222 pages
...the duty of a Minister to declare explicitly, first, whether he will maintain the Bill itself; arid, secondly, whether he will act upon the spirit in which...country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by m8Jdioju&-mjeanat Then as to the spirit of the Reform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Church property - 1835 - 152 pages
...the people, the real government of the country must reside. Sir Robert Peel avows that he " considers the " Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement...disturb, either by " direct or by insidious means." But he omits to state what the great constitutional question was, which has thus been finally and irrevocably... | |
 | 1835 - 562 pages
...only profess to regard ' as a final ' and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question, ' which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country...attempt to disturb either by direct or by insidious means,'—but to be willing to adopt and enforce it as a rule of Government. And with this language... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1835 - 838 pages
...settlement of a great constitutional question ; a settlement which no friend to the peace or welfare of the country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means. He then alluded to the municipal incorporations, and said that it was not his intention to interrupt... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...entered the House of Commons as a member of the reformed parliament, that I consider the reform-bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional...country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or insidious means." This frank exposition was, as far as Sir Robert was concerned, sufficiently satisfactory... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - Great Britain - 1856 - 548 pages
...reform-bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constituTHE TAMWORTH MANIFESTO. 197 tional question, — a settlement which no friend to the...country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or insidious means." This frank exposition was, as far as Sir Robert was concerned, sufficiently satisfactory... | |
 | François Guizot - Politicians - 1857 - 420 pages
...professed, and uniformly acted on, with regard to other branches of the jurisprudence of the country With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I will repeat...by insidious means. Then, as to the spirit of the Eeform Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of Government : if, by adopting... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...no more. 1 In his Address to the Electors of Tamworth, Sir Robert Peel, stated that he " considered the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement...disturb, either by direct or by insidious means." — Ann. Reg., 1834, p. 341; Guizot's Life of Peel, 60-66. Lord Melbourne's ministry, still further... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 858 pages
...of the opposition with the dignity of an English statesman. He frankly stated that he " considered the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement...country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or indirect means." Avowing this principle, and professing to desire the improvement, but not the destruction,... | |
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Bill itself ; and, secondly, whether he will act upon the spirit in which it was conceived. With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I will repeat now the declaration which I made when I entered the House of Commons as a Member of the Reformed Parliament,... 
