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  • Southey scholar F.T. Hoadley has since suggested that it was Brougham who put Smith up to the second parliamentary use of the example of Southey's apostasy, since Southey had ignored the newspaper reports of Brougham's original attack.

    The Critical Reception of Robert Southey's _Wat Tyler_ 2007

  • The Buffs 'only score came on Patrick Brougham's 42-yard field goal in the third quarter that was set up by a fumbled punt by

    NCAA Division I College Football - USC vs. Colorado 2002

  • One of these he maintained to be the head of Cicero; the other he imagined a composite one, being Demosthenes 'from the top of the forehead to the mouth, and Lord Brougham's from the mouth to the chin.

    Error Felix Davies, Richard T. 1991

  • Registrar-General's Report, of which he showed us a copy, stating that while in the year 1856, the year of the passing of Lord Brougham's Act, there were 757 marriages celebrated in the district of Gretna Green, thirty-nine entered as taking place in one day, November 8th, in the following year there were only thirty and in the next forty-one, showing conclusively that the Act had been effectual.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • We saw a new hotel on the English side of the river which had been built by a Mr. Murray specially for the accommodation of the runaways while the "Blacksmith" was sent for to join them together on the other side of the boundary, but it had only just been finished when Lord Brougham's Act rendered it practically useless, and made it a bad speculation for Mr. Murray.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Brougham's aerial, vapoury projects of setting the Church's house in order.

    A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

  • Brougham's _Historical Sketches_, in the article on Lord Chatham.

    Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

  • "Scotch" marriages by a clause which required twenty-one days 'residence before the marriage could be solemnised, so that although the Act was called Lord Brougham's Act, he said it was really his.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Brougham's love of work -- long become a habit -- that no amount of application seems to have been too great for him; and such was his love of excellence that it has been said of him that if his station in life had been only that of a shoeblack, he would never have rested satisfied until he had become the best shoeblack in England.

    How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

  • Perhaps ignorance and thoughtlessness were never more decidedly manifested than in Brougham's late rhodomontade on the failure of Democracy in this country.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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