Septennial Act 1716 It did not require parliament to last for a full term, but merely set a maximum length on its life. Most parliaments in the remainder of the eighteenth century did indeed last for six or seven years, with only two lasting for a shorter time. In the nineteenth century, the average length of a term of the Parliament of the United Kingdom was four years. One of the demands of the mid-nineteenth century Chartists—the only one that had not been achieved by the twentieth century—was for annually-elected parliaments. The Septennial Act was amended on 18 August 1911 by of the
How It Is How It Is How It Is is a novel by Samuel Beckett first published in French as "Comment c'est" by Les Editions de Minuit in 1961. The Grove Press (New York) published Beckett's English translation in 1964. An advance text of his English translation of the third part appeared in the 1962 issue of the Australian literary journal, "Arna". "L'Image", an early variant version of "Comment c'est", was published in the British arts review, "X: A Quarterly Review" (1959), and is the first appearance of the novel in any form. The novel is a monologue by the narrator as he