Studies in Parliament: A Series of Sketches of Leading PoliticiansLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866 - 208 strani |
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Stran 203 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Stran 122 - He rose slowly from his seat ; he left the woolsack with deliberation ; but he went not to the nearest place, like ordinary chancellors, the sons of mortal men; he drew back by a pace or two, and, standing, as it were, askance, and partly behind the huge bale he had quitted for a season, he began to pour out, first in a growl, and then in a clearer and louder roll, the matter which he had to deliver...
Stran 170 - As a rhetorician, he has had the art of persuading when he seconded desire; as a reasoner, he has convinced those who had no doubt before; as a moralist, he has taught that virtue may disgrace ; and as a patriot, he has gratified the mean by insults on the high.
Stran 122 - ... standing as it were askance, and partly behind the huge bale he had quitted for a season, he began to pour out, first in a growl, and then in a clear and louder roll, the matter which he had to deliver, and which for the most part consisted in some positive assertions, some personal vituperation, some sarcasms at classes, some sentences pronounced upon individuals as if they were standing before him for judgment, some vague mysterious threats of things purposely not expressed, and abundant protestations...
Stran 187 - Palmerston) were to retire, we should no longer be nibbling ourselves into disgrace on the coast of Spain. If the amiable Lord Glenelg were to leave us, we should feel secure in our colonial possessions ; if Mr. Spring Rice were to go into holy orders, great would be the joy of the Three per Cents.
Stran 204 - As to the romantic notion that nations or governments are much or permanently influenced by friendships, and God knows what, why, I say that those who maintain those romantic notions, and apply the intercourse of individuals to the intercourse of nations, are indulging in a vain dream. The only thing which makes one Government follow the advice and yield to the counsel of another, is the hope of benefit to accrue from adopting it, or the fear of the consequences of opposing it.
Stran 99 - Council may have thought fit to have indulged towards myself, I cannot be guilty of such injustice towards them. Amidst the deep satisfaction with which I have watched of late years the extraordinary progress of New South Wales in nearly all that constitutes the social and material welfare of a community, I have never ceased to appreciate the manner in which its Legislature has contributed to that advance by the zealous and constant discharge of its duty to its constituents...
Stran 82 - I believe that I am the only one of that family who holds any official appointment whatever. I am also a Cavendish, but I think that the noble Duke at the head of that family has not shown himself slow to encourage genius wherever he has found it, even amongst the lower class.
Stran 41 - ... the equivocal principle of religious liberty, the unqualified application of which principle seems hardly consistent with that recognition of religious truth by the state to which we yet adhere, and without which it is highly probable that the northern and western races after a disturbing and rapidly degrading period of atheistic anarchy may fatally recur to their old national idolatries, modified and mythically dressed up according to the spirit of the age.
Stran 12 - He cares even more than trades-unions for the welfare of the working men ; more than the manufacturers for the interests of capital ; more for the cause of retrenchment than the most jealous and avowed foes of Government expenditure ; more for the spread of education than the advocates of a compulsory national system ; more for careful constitutional precedent than the Whigs ; and more for the spiritual independence of the Church than the highest Tories. He unites cotton with culture, Manchester...