ISBN: 9781458968432

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… Plus…

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Volume: 1 Original Publisher: Virtue and Co. Publication date: 1868Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain; Language Arts Books Saint-Pauls-Magazine~~Anthony-Trollope General Books Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " THE LEAP IN THE DARK." By a strange inversion of the usual order of things, the probable effects of the Reform Bill of 1867 upon the relation of political parties and the future legislation of the country, were scarcely discussed till the Bill was on the point of passing into a law of the realm. The very statesmen who were its authors reserved their manifesto till the end, and did not publish their own estimate of the ultimate results of the measure which they proposed, until they were able to count with confidence on its acceptance by Parliament and the country. Nor did this reticence on their part operate at all to their disadvantage. Compelled as they were to rely on Radical as well as Conservative support, they naturally concluded that the more reasons they put forward, the more likely they were to incur the risk of alienating a certain number of votes; while, on the other hand, they appear to have been justified in assuming that Parliament was, above all things, determined that some Reform Bill must be passed, and that they would accordingly be held responsible rather for success or failure in carrying a bill of some kind, than for the results of the measure upon the country, when carried. " Wanted?a Reform Bill," was to bo the motto for the session and for the leaders of parties. Any elaborate examination into the probable results of the only bill considered possible would have been out of place at a time when the contingency of a breakdown in carrying some Reform Bill during the session was considered a heavier risk than any mistaken estimate of the magnitude and scope of the Bill itself. But notwithstanding the anxiety shown on all sides, that under no circumstances should be lost the favourable chance of settling the question, we may be permitted to doubt whether, if...<

ISBN: 9781458968432

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… Plus…

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Volume: 1 Original Publisher: Virtue and Co. Publication date: 1868Subjects: History / Europe The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Volume: 1 Original Publisher: Virtue and Co. Publication date: 1868Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain; Language Arts Books, , Saint-Pauls-Magazine~~Anthony-Trollope, 999999999, The Saint Pauls Magazine (Volume 1), Anthony Trollope, 145896843X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458968432

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's web… Plus…

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Volume: 1 Original Publisher: Virtue and Co. Publication date: 1868Subjects: History / Europe The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Volume: 1 Original Publisher: Virtue and Co. Publication date: 1868Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain; Language Arts Books, , Saint-Pauls-Magazine~~Anthony-Trollope, 999999999, The Saint Pauls Magazine (Volume 1), Anthony Trollope, 145896843X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books<