 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1884 - 434 pages
...beyond the first sentence, prefixed to the draft, and which I alone had any hand in writing : ' I am come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this...Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution.' He dwelt upon ' immediate.' While we were waiting for the rest of the Commons, beside the Speaker and... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1884 - 428 pages
...evident signs of anger. The Commons were then summoned, and when they had arrived His Majesty began : ' My Lords and Gentlemen, I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing the Parliament, with a view to its immediate DISSOLUTION ' — pronouncing the word with deep emphasis... | |
 | William Heaton - Great Britain - 1885 - 338 pages
...amidst a scene of confusion which is described as unparalleled, he began at once with the words, " I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate disso- The Dissolution."* Next day (April 23rd) the dissolution took place. The writs for the new Parliament... | |
 | William Nassau Molesworth - Great Britain - 1887 - 622 pages
...king, in a loud and firm voice, pronounced his speech, which commenced with tho following words : — "My lords and gentlemen, I have come to meet you for...I have been induced to resort to this measure for tho purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people, in tho way in which it can be most constitutionally... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 540 pages
...beyond the first sentence, prefixed to the draft, and which I alone had any hand in writing: "I am come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this...Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution." . . . Lord Brougham, The Life and Times of Lord Brougham (London, 1871), III, 115-118. 131. A Chartist... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 728 pages
...a speech in which he said the prorogation was with a view to immediate dissolution, and that he had been induced to resort to this measure for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of his people, in the way in which it could be most constitutionally expressed, on the expediency of making... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 480 pages
...and shoving into the chamber at the summons of Black Rod. ' My lords and gentlemen,' said the King, ' I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing...Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution.' The great Tory party bowed beneath the weight of those words as helplessly as the Whigs just 150 years... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 482 pages
...and shoving into the chamber at the summons of Black Rod. ' My lords and gentlemen,' said the King, ' I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing...Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution.' The great Tory party bowed beneath the weight of those words as helplessly as the Whigs just 150 years... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1920 - 476 pages
...Charles had played them a like trick at Oxford. But King William added what no Stuart could have said : ' I have been induced to resort to this measure for...the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people.' All through the dissolution crisis, now issuing so triumphantly, Grey had been calm and cheerful, in... | |
 | Gilbert Stone - Great Britain - 1922 - 436 pages
...came to deliver is one that should not lightly be forgotten by those who live in a free democracy. " My lords and gentlemen, I have come to meet you for...the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people " These words were prophetic of a future age. They mark the transition from the past to the present.... | |
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MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. 
