 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 556 pages
...dished the Whigs ? ' l He, at any rate, avowed, on parting with the Bill on the third reading, that ' we are making a great experiment, and taking a leap in the dark.' 2 Lord Derby's own biographer is in doubt whether he originated the famous phrase himself, or borrowed... | |
 | George Carter - 1898 - 312 pages
...constituencies." NOTE 1 . — Lord Derby said at the third reading of the Bill in the Lords — ' ' No doubt we are making a great experiment, and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my countrymen." NOTE 2. — The chief points... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1906 - 890 pages
...1884. —One of the Conservative leaders, the Earl of Derby, in the discussions upon the Reform Bill of 1867, said, " No doubt we are making a great experiment,...passage of that bill the English people were ready to tike another leap. But they were not now leaping in the dark. The wisdom and safety of admitting the... | |
 | Hugh Montgomery, Philip George Cambray - 1906 - 428 pages
...on August 6, 1867 (Hansard, vol. 189, col. 952.), with reference to the Reform Bill of that year. He said : " No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my countrymen, and I entertain a strong hope... | |
 | 1907 - 440 pages
...шигЬе fofort aufgegriffen; SDÎurrati^ gitat auâ einer ïlebe be§ Sari bon 5Derbt) (audj 1867) „No doubt we are making a great experiment and 'taking a leap into the dark'" bejieljt fia) offenbar auf Sranbourneâ Síujjerung, bie SJÎurra^ nicf)t an= fü^rt.... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1910 - 452 pages
...the third reading in the Lords, repeating a phrase used by Lord Cranborne in the other House — " no doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark ; but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen." The question remains... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1916 - 660 pages
...Whigs ?' The third reading speech admitted and defended the experimental character of the Bill : ' No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1916 - 706 pages
...Whigs ? ' The third reading speech admitted and defended the experimental character of the Bill : ' No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | Herbert Henry Asquith - 1926 - 350 pages
...Lord Derby, who said in the House of Lords on the final stage of the Reform Bill of 1867 (Aug. 6), " No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark." Mr. Justin McCarthy, in his " History of Our Own Times ", says the phrase had been previously used... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1927 - 914 pages
...of 1884. One of the conservative leaders, the Earl of Derby, in the discussions upon the Reform Bill of 1867, said, "No doubt we are making a great experiment,...seventeen years after the passage of that bill the British people were ready to take anothei FIG. 137. QUEEN VICTORIA AS A YOUNG WOMAN. (After a painting... | |
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