 | 1895 - 588 pages
...as a purely consultative body, but the proposal was rejected by 44 votes to 29, and a resolution " that the House of Peers in Parliament is useless and dangerous and ought to be abolished " was carried without a division. On the 7th a further resolution " that it had been found by experience... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...settle the government in a Commonwealth ; and on the sixth of February it was voted by the Commons, that ' the House of Peers in Parliament is useless and dangerous, and ought to be abolished/ On the following day, they resolved, that ' it hath been found by experience, awl this House doth declare,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...settle the government in a Commonwealth; and on the sixth of February it was voted by the Commons, that ' the House of Peers in Parliament is useless and dangerous, and ought to be abolished.' On the following day, they resolved, that ' it hath been found by experience, and this House doth declare,... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...dangerous to the liberty, safety, and public interest of the people of this nation ; and therefore ought to be abolished. And that an act be brought in to that purpose. And a council of state of forty members created, to act according to instructions to be given by the... | |
 | English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...of England, which had subsisted entire for 850 years, was now formally extinguished. It was voted. " that the House of Peers in Parliament is useless and dangerous, and ought to be abolished ;" and it was resolved, upon the question by the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, " that it hath... | |
 | Granville Penn - Admirals - 1833 - 614 pages
...superadded to it the titular and insulting character of Protector. 1 " 6th February.— The house voted, that the house of peers in parliament " is useless, and dangerous, and ought to be abolished." — WHITELOCK, p. 377 ; HEATH, p. 226. 1649. THIRTIETH OF JANUARY. — The event soon followed, which,... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1833 - 614 pages
...superadded to it the titular and insulting character of Protector. 1 " 6th February.— The house voted, that the house of peers in parliament " is useless, and dangerous, and ought to be abolished." — WUITELOCK, p. 377 • II ;:.\ i 11. p. '226. 1649. THIRTIETH OF JANUARY. — The event soon followed,... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 434 pages
...February it was moved, in the house of commons, " That the house of peers in parliament is useless, dangerous, and ought to be abolished, and that an act be brought in to that purpose." Upon this Mr. D'Israeli remarkst — "Harry Marten, as reckless in his wit as in his life, with the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 630 pages
...in the negative by forty-four against twenty-nine ; and then it was resolved, without a division, " that the House of Peers in parliament is useless and...ought to be abolished, and that an act be brought in for that purpose." As a malicious pleasantry, an amendment was moved and carried, " that Lord Commissioner... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1855 - 462 pages
...judicature or a court consultatory only. On the 6th the debate was renewed ; and it ended that night in the vote, " that the House of Peers in parliament...useless and dangerous, and ought to be abolished." Other votes were rapidly passed for demolishing the statues of kings, and for converting England into... | |
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On the morrow it was further resolved 'that it hath been found by experience, and this house doth declare, that the office of a king in this nation, and to have the power thereof in any single person, is unnecessary, burdensome, and dangerous to the liberty,... 
