 Those Iron Barons (for so I may call them when compared with the Silken Barons of modern days), were the Guardians of the People; yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. A breach has been made in...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4471838Full view - About this book
 | John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 592 pages
...tenement." It was in regard to this personal right of the Englishman the same great statesman also said : " Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared...people, and three words of their barbarous Latin, ^Nuilus liber Iwmo] are worth all the classics." How it opened the prison doors to Milligan and Cummings;... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - Prime ministers - 1912 - 44 pages
...are worth all the Classics. Let us not, then, degenerate from the glorious example of our ancestors. Those Iron Barons (for so I may call them when compared...Barons of modern days) were the guardians of the people ; yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present.... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...his ability to understand. Let us not, then, degenerate from the glorious example of our ancestors. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared...barons of modern days) were the guardians of the people ; yet their virtues, my lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present.... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 pages
...from the glorious example of our ancestors. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when eompared with the silken barons of modern days) were the guardians of the people ; yet their virtues, my lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present.... | |
 | Basil Williams - Great Britain - 1913 - 450 pages
...obtained from their sovereign that great acknowledgment of national rights contained in Magna Charta. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared...of modern days) were the guardians of the people. Yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. .... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...are worth all the classics. Let us not, then, degenerate from the glorious example of our ancestors. Those Iron Barons (for so I may call them when compared...of modern days), were the guardians of the people ; yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present.... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - United States - 1926 - 366 pages
...nervously behind them. The House of Lords was startled by a hollow voice, which spoke about Magna Carta and "those iron barons — for so I may call them when compared with the silken barons of modern days." He seemed to have his strength again, spoke night after night, and drove past Mr. Burke's at Beaconsfield... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - History - 1927 - 600 pages
...they had spirit to maintain them. . . . Let us not derogate from the glorious spirit of our ancestors. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared...barons of modern days) were the guardians of the people ; yet their virtues were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. A breach has... | |
 | Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 440 pages
...obtained from their sovereign that great acknowledgment of national rights contained in Magna Charta. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared...of modern days) were the guardians of the people. Yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. .... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1925 - 784 pages
...behind them. The House of Lords was startled by a hollow voice, which spoke about Magna Carta and ' those iron barons — for so I may call them when compared with the silken barons of modern days.' He seemed to have his strength again, spoke night after night, and drove past Mr. Burke's at Beaconsfield... | |
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