The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker...1809 to 1830, Količina 1J. Murray, 1885 |
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Admiralty affairs afterwards appointment army asked battle believe Bloomfield Brougham Buonaparte Cabinet called Canning's Castlereagh Catholic Emancipation Catholic question Chancellor Croker to Lord deal DEAR CROKER Diary dined dinner doubt Dublin Duke of Clarence Duke of Wellington Duke of York endeavoured England English favour feelings French friends George give Government hear heard Herries honour hope House of Commons Huskisson Ireland Irish kind King King's knew letter look Lord Goderich Lord Grey Lord Hertford Lord Liverpool Lord Melville Lord Sidmouth Lord Wellesley Lowther MacMahon Majesty ment Ministers morning never night obliged opinion opposition paper Parliament party Peel's Perceval political Prince Princess Queen replied resignation Royal Highness Secretary seems sent Sheridan Sidmouth suppose talked tell Theodore Hook thing thought tion to-day told took Tories town Walter Scott Whigs whole wish write wrote Yarmouth yesterday
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Stran 162 - ... public opinion never had such influence on public measures, and yet never was so dissatisfied with the share which it possessed. It is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through. God knows, it is very difficult to widen them exactly in proportion to the size anil force of the current which they have to convey, but the engineers that made them never dreamt of various streams that are now struggling for a vent.
Stran 423 - England that she might cease to be a despot. But he was a churchman. His gown impeded his course, and entangled his efforts; guiding a senate, or heading an army, he had been more than Cromwell, and Ireland not less than England : as it was, he saved her by his courage, improved her by his authority, adorned her by his talents, and exalted her by his fame.
Stran 50 - ... endurance, the enemy's fire was unslackened, he began to despair of success. 'I will make the signal of recall,' said he to his captain, 'for Nelson's sake. If he is in a condition to continue the action successfully, he will disregard it; if he is not, it will be an excuse for his retreat, and no blame can be imputed to him.
Stran 302 - There is yet time to make a stand, for there is yet a great deal of good and genuine feeling left in the country. But if you unscotch us, you will find us damned mischievous Englishmen. The restless and yet laborious and constantly watchful character of the people, their desire for speculation in politics or anything else, only restrained by some proud feelings about their own country, now become antiquated, and which late measures will tend much to destroy, will make them, under a wrong direction,...
Stran 162 - Can we resist — I mean, not next session or the session after that — but can we resist for seven years Reform in Parliament ? Will not — remote as is the scene — will not recent events in Spain diminish the probability of such resistance ? And if reform cannot be resisted, is it not more probable that Whigs and Tories will unite and carry through moderate reform, than remain opposed to each other...
Stran 162 - Do not you think that there is a feeling, becoming daily more general and more confirmed, that is, independent of the pressure of taxation or any immediate cause, in favour of some undefined change in the mode of governing the country ? It seems to me a curious crisis, when public opinion never had such influence on public measures, and yet never was so dissatisfied with the share which it possessed. It is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through.
Stran 338 - I could see with my glass one village on the right or near bank of the river, and another village exactly opposite on the other bank, and I immediately said to myself, that men could not have built two villages so close to one another, on opposite sides of a stream, without some habitual means of communication either by boats or a ford — most probably by the latter.
Stran 112 - Night cometh when no man can work," said one who could not have foreseen the fate of a man in office and the House of Commons. A fortnight hence I shall be free as air — free from ten thousand engagements which I cannot fulfil ; free from the anxiety of having more to do than it is possible to do well ; free from the acknowledgments of that gratitude which consists in a lively sense of future favours ; free from the necessity of abstaining from private intimacy that will certainly interfere with...
Stran 336 - When I first mentioned it, I only thought it a matter of respect and duty to the King ; I now look upon it as a matter of self-respect and duty...
Stran 296 - MacMahon that he had spent only .£130 or .£140, and he gave the most appalling account of the misery which he had relieved with it. He said that he found him and Mrs. Sheridan both in their beds, both apparently dying, and both starving ! It is stated in Mr. Moore's book that Mrs. Sheridan attended her husband in his last illness ; it is not true. She was too ill to leave her own bed...