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" Treasury the shadow of a board exists ; but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed "Council... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 56
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - 1850 - 762 pages
...the Treasury. Mr. Canning said, he wanted to know of what use were the Lords of the Treasury, except to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister when he was wrong. MB. HUME said, that it was his opinion that, as they had lowered the prices of food...
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Miscellany: political

1855 - 988 pages
...he may have done nothing beyond his duty when an admiralty lord, as defined by his witty leader, " to make a house, to keep a house, and to cheer the minister." He spoke but once on questions of foreign policy ;* and then it was in sentences that may yet prove...
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The Institutions of the English Government: Being an Account of the ...

Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 pages
...Paymaster-General (c). (a) Mr. Canning is said to have described the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury to be, "to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister." (Report to H. of Com. on Admiralty, 1861, No. 972.) (b) Report to H. of Coin, on Admiralty, 1861, Nos....
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The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir James R. G. Graham ..., Volume 1

William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1863 - 542 pages
...system, were very much what Mr Canning described to be the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury, — to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister. In the business of the Admiralty they had very little to do. They had no departmental 1s32. duties assigned...
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The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Sir James R. G. Graham ..., Volume 1

William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1863 - 534 pages
...system, were very much what Mr Canning described to be the duties of Junior Lords of the Treasury, — to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister. In the business of the Admiralty they had very little to do. They had no departmental 1s32- duties assigned...
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The life and times of viscount Palmerston, Volume 2; Volume 87

James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...jocosely on the shoulder, and shakes hands heartily even with Irish MP's. His duty is, as Canning said, " To make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the minister." Altogether he is a very powerful man ; not an orator, but perhaps something better, as facts speak...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 4; Volume 6

1866 - 908 pages
...a Board exists, but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed " Council;" but the Colonial Office, which rides over our other...
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The Government of England: Its Structure, and Its Development

William Edward Hearn - 1867 - 588 pages
...board. Such meetings are merely formal, and are held by the junior lords, whose real duties are said to be " to make a House, to keep a House and to cheer the Minister." A similar practice prevails in the Board of Trade and in the Admiralty. ,f- In the latter department...
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The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 pages
...a Board exists, but its members have no power, and are the very officials whom Canning said existed to make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the ministers. The India Office has a fixed " Council ; " but the Colonial Office, which rules over our...
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Reminiscences

Charles Cowan - 1878 - 578 pages
...and, I fear, had been rather neglectful of his duty, which was threefold, and was defined thus — " To make a House, to keep a House, and to cheer the Minister." He could therefore only reply to the latter fragment of the speech which he had heard, and which he...
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