The Life of William Ewart Gladstone |
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Stran 59 - British and Chinese authorities in the Canton River ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid upon the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow ; and that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the state...
Stran 130 - ... become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another...
Stran 314 - I shall ever gratefully remember his devotion and zeal in all that concerned my personal welfare and that of my family.
Stran 36 - ... emphatic words, Civis Romanus sum. He vaunted, amidst the cheers of his supporters, that under his administration an Englishman should be, throughout the world, what the citizen of Rome had been. What then, Sir, was a Roman citizen ? He was the member of a privileged caste; he belonged to a conquering race, to a nation that held all others bound down by the strong arm of power. For him there was to be an exceptional system of law; for him principles were to be asserted, and by him rights were...
Stran 20 - I can only speak from tradition of the struggle for the abolition of slavery; but, if I have not been misinformed, there was engaged in it a man who was the unseen ally of Mr. Wilberforce, and the pillar of his strength ; a man of profound benevolence, of acute understanding, of indefatigable industry, and of that selfdenying temper, which is content to work in secret, to forego the recompense of present fame, and to seek for its reward beyond the grave.
Stran 184 - Lords was engaged in a discussion of which the outcome was to fan again into flame the fierce passions of the Home Rule party, and to change completely the whole current of the proposed business of the session. Lord Donoughmore's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Land Act of the previous session was eagerly supported by the principal Irish landlords, who considered the law unsatisfactory.
Stran 37 - I say that not only is the expenditure upon this costly instrument thrown away, but this great engine, used by civilised society for the purpose of maintaining peace, is perverted into a cause of hostility and war.
Stran 339 - SKETCH.—' Unquestionably the most striking book the war has produced. A masterly piece of work, a real contribution to historical writing.' A LIFETIME IN SOUTH AFRICA: Being the Recollections of the First Premier of Natal. By the Hon. Sir JOHN ROBINSOH, KCMG Author of ' George Linton,' ' The Colonies and the Century,
Stran 178 - The second reading of the Bill was moved in the House of Commons on...