The Quarterly Review, Volumes 280-281William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1943 |
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... House did not increase in number . At the accession of Henry VIII , they were 48 clergy and 36 laymen . Such was the ... House of Lords ; it was after the Restoration in 1660 , that the oligarchical system reached its zenith . A small ...
... House did not increase in number . At the accession of Henry VIII , they were 48 clergy and 36 laymen . Such was the ... House of Lords ; it was after the Restoration in 1660 , that the oligarchical system reached its zenith . A small ...
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... House of Commons ; among them one can always form a committee of experts , and they have the right to send a bill back twice to the House of Commons in a revised form . On Mondays , Tuesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays , the House of ...
... House of Commons ; among them one can always form a committee of experts , and they have the right to send a bill back twice to the House of Commons in a revised form . On Mondays , Tuesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays , the House of ...
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... house ; are none of them incompetent or inex- perienced ; are none of them what Mr Lloyd George called back - woodsmen ? Some of them certainly are ; but a man who is incompetent dare not waste the time of experts in debate and seldom ...
... house ; are none of them incompetent or inex- perienced ; are none of them what Mr Lloyd George called back - woodsmen ? Some of them certainly are ; but a man who is incompetent dare not waste the time of experts in debate and seldom ...
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