 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 372 pages
...managed with all imaginable gravity and solemnity, he contracted ' (says Clarendon) 'such a reverence to Parliaments that he thought it really impossible they...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them.' In the next Parliament this faith in Parliaments was destined to be roughly shaken. The Long Parliament... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 368 pages
...managed with all imaginable gravity and solemnity, he contracted' (says Clarendon) 'such a reverence to Parliaments that he thought it really impossible they...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them.' In the next Parliament this faith in Parliaments was destined to be roughly shaken. The Long Parliament... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to Parliament, that he thought it really impossible they could ever...inconvenience to the kingdom ; or that the kingdom could be tolerable happy in the intermission of them. . . The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 pages
...which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to parliaments that he thought it really impossible they...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. . . . 6 The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity of those persons who appeared most... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to Parliaments, that he thought it really impossible...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. And from the unhappy and unseasonable dissolution of that Convention, he harboured, it may be, some... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 500 pages
...vii. 222), 'he contracted such a reverence to parliaments, that he thought it really impossible that they could ever produce mischief or inconvenience...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them ; and from the unhappy and unseasonable intermission of that convention, he harboured, it may be, some... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...which were then managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to parliaments, that he thought it really impossible...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. And from the unhappy and unseasonable dissolution of that convention, he harboured, it may be, some... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1889 - 398 pages
...which were then managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to parliaments, that he thought it really impossible...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. And from the unhappy and unseasonable dissolution of that convention, he harboured, it may be, some... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to parliaments that he thought it really impossible they...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. . . . 6 The great opinion he had of the uprightness and integrity of those persons who appeared most... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pages
...which were then managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to parliaments, that he thought it really impossible...could be tolerably happy in the intermission of them. And from the unhappy and unseasonable dissolution of that convention, he harboured, it may be, some... | |
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Parliament he was a Burgess in the House of Commons, and from the debates, which were there managed with all imaginable gravity and sobriety, he contracted such a reverence to Parliaments that he thought it really impossible they could ever produce mischief... 
