English Party Leaders and English Parties: Sir Robert Walpole. William Pitt, earl of Chatham. Edmund Burke. Charles James Fox. William Pitt, pt.ITinsley brothers, 1878 |
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... Statesmen , Who know the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand , and make The bounds of freedom wider yet . " - Tennyson . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. 1 MICHIGAN LONDON : TINSLEY BROTHERS , 8 , CATHERINE ST . , STRAND . [ All rights ...
... Statesmen , Who know the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand , and make The bounds of freedom wider yet . " - Tennyson . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. 1 MICHIGAN LONDON : TINSLEY BROTHERS , 8 , CATHERINE ST . , STRAND . [ All rights ...
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... statesmen have exercised on contemporary opinion , and to indicate the extent to which the country is indebted to their services . It may be alleged as an objection that the biographical form compels me to go over the same ground when ...
... statesmen have exercised on contemporary opinion , and to indicate the extent to which the country is indebted to their services . It may be alleged as an objection that the biographical form compels me to go over the same ground when ...
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... statesman , 91 -His power - Mrs . Oliphant quoted , 94 - Conduct on Accession of George the 2nd , 95 - Partiality of Queen Caroline to Walpole , 96 — Their influence over the King , 98 — The Queen's death - Her farewell of Walpole , 104 ...
... statesman , 91 -His power - Mrs . Oliphant quoted , 94 - Conduct on Accession of George the 2nd , 95 - Partiality of Queen Caroline to Walpole , 96 — Their influence over the King , 98 — The Queen's death - Her farewell of Walpole , 104 ...
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... statesmen as those who have adminis- tered the affairs of Great Britain , in office or out of office , since the days of Walpole . They may not al- ways have been blind to the interests of their party , or insensible to the attraction ...
... statesmen as those who have adminis- tered the affairs of Great Britain , in office or out of office , since the days of Walpole . They may not al- ways have been blind to the interests of their party , or insensible to the attraction ...
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... statesman of his age was con- tent to superintend the " improvements " on his father's estate , and sell cattle at ... statesmen has taught us nowadays to con- sider almost indispensable to political renown . Macau- lay has summed up his ...
... statesman of his age was con- tent to superintend the " improvements " on his father's estate , and sell cattle at ... statesmen has taught us nowadays to con- sider almost indispensable to political renown . Macau- lay has summed up his ...
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Page 296 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 243 - it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature put into our hands!" I AM ASTONISHED ! — shocked ! to hear such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country ; principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and unchristian ! My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation.
Page 242 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 318 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 218 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 158 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 225 - He made an administration, so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...
Page 220 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 290 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?
Page 288 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it'! Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!