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... honoured friend , Sir Wilfrid Lawson , wrote in the closing years of his life . The scope of these Reminiscences may best be given in his own words . ' These pages are intended to be a record of certain Parlia- mentary and public ...
... honoured friend , Sir Wilfrid Lawson , wrote in the closing years of his life . The scope of these Reminiscences may best be given in his own words . ' These pages are intended to be a record of certain Parlia- mentary and public ...
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... honour , glory , or prosperity , to plunder and destroy other nations with whom we think fit to quarrel . I remember a farmer who belonged to the old Liberal Party saying that , although he would vote for me , he thought there was " too ...
... honour , glory , or prosperity , to plunder and destroy other nations with whom we think fit to quarrel . I remember a farmer who belonged to the old Liberal Party saying that , although he would vote for me , he thought there was " too ...
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... by the Liberal crowd when the Tory candidate came to be nominated . It seemed to be a point of honour that nobody should be heard . If political feeling ran high , shouting was not sufficient , but the unhappy men on.
... by the Liberal crowd when the Tory candidate came to be nominated . It seemed to be a point of honour that nobody should be heard . If political feeling ran high , shouting was not sufficient , but the unhappy men on.
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... honour , and happiness to the nation , which maintains them . I hold the exact reverse , but who knows which of us is right ? ' Life consists in " guesses at truth , " and my Tory friends have just as much right to guess , as I have ...
... honour , and happiness to the nation , which maintains them . I hold the exact reverse , but who knows which of us is right ? ' Life consists in " guesses at truth , " and my Tory friends have just as much right to guess , as I have ...
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... honours , distinctions , and titles which office and what is called statesmanship can confer ? ' We buried Mr. Cobden on April 7 at his home in Lavington in Surrey , and there , I think , rests - if the greatness of public men is to be ...
... honours , distinctions , and titles which office and what is called statesmanship can confer ? ' We buried Mr. Cobden on April 7 at his home in Lavington in Surrey , and there , I think , rests - if the greatness of public men is to be ...
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Page 180 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 67 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 134 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 56 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Page 56 - We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South ; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army ; they are making, it appears, a navy ; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation.
Page 86 - The Queen is most anxious to enlist every-one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Page 186 - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
Page 22 - ... a year. Lodgers, graduates, ministers of religion, solicitors, doctors, and schoolmasters were, under certain conditions, enfranchised, and the Government proposed to recognize the principle of identity of suffrage between the counties and towns. Two members of the Government promptly resigned rather than be parties to these proposals. Lord John Russell moved an amendment condemning interference with the franchise which enabled freeholders in boroughs to vote in counties, and demanding a wider...