One Look BackW. Gardner, Darton & Company, Limited, 1911 - 368 páginas |
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Página 170
... government , soon began to see that they had exchanged what was merely fatuous and foolish for what was actively mischievous . They were forced to ask themselves how much of the political faith which they had professed was " real stuff ...
... government , soon began to see that they had exchanged what was merely fatuous and foolish for what was actively mischievous . They were forced to ask themselves how much of the political faith which they had professed was " real stuff ...
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... Government tried to whittle down the enormity , the " incident " proved to be graver than even the Premier had imagined ; for it showed the Liberals once again that Toryism is by instinct hostile to freedom . But events were now at hand ...
... Government tried to whittle down the enormity , the " incident " proved to be graver than even the Premier had imagined ; for it showed the Liberals once again that Toryism is by instinct hostile to freedom . But events were now at hand ...
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... Government which is im- mediately responsible for acts like these has turned for sympathy , for encouragement , not to any of the historical homes of despotism or oppression , not to any other European Power , but alas ! to England - to ...
... Government which is im- mediately responsible for acts like these has turned for sympathy , for encouragement , not to any of the historical homes of despotism or oppression , not to any other European Power , but alas ! to England - to ...
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... Government and its champion , Disraeli , who had now become Lord Beaconsfield . For three arduous years he sustained the high and holy strife with a versatil- ity , a courage , and a resourcefulness , which raised the enthusiasm of his ...
... Government and its champion , Disraeli , who had now become Lord Beaconsfield . For three arduous years he sustained the high and holy strife with a versatil- ity , a courage , and a resourcefulness , which raised the enthusiasm of his ...
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... Government began to lose ground . In 1879 Vanity Fair , a strongly Disraelitish organ , pronounced ( under a cartoon ) that Gladstone was the most popular man in England . In the autumn of that year , the " Mid - Lothian Campaign ...
... Government began to lose ground . In 1879 Vanity Fair , a strongly Disraelitish organ , pronounced ( under a cartoon ) that Gladstone was the most popular man in England . In the autumn of that year , the " Mid - Lothian Campaign ...
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Página 153 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 92 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings; a sceptred isle,* for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace...
Página 8 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 92 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Página 180 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 106 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 232 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Página 104 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen.
Página 9 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Página 169 - Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kindhearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and handsome.