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Página 29 - Long before what is called the "^condition of the people question ' was discussed in the House of Commons, I had employed my pen1 on the subject. I had long been aware that there was something rotten in the core of our social system. I had seen that while immense fortunes were accumulating, while wealth was increasing to a superabundance, and while Great Britain was cited throughout Europe as the most prosperous nation in the \ world, the working classes, the creators of wealth, were steeped ; in...
Página 16 - Gentleman has traded on the ideas and intelligence of others. His life has been one great appropriation clause. He is a burglar of others' intellect. Search the Index of Beatson, from the days of the Conqueror to the termination of the last reign, there is no statesman who has committed political petty larceny on so great a scale.
Página 23 - ... misapprehension of the facts of an incident ten years earlier, in which a member of his family and Disraeli had been involved, but in which Disraeli's part appears to have been rather creditable than the reverse ; and, according to the story, when Peel suggested Disraeli as eligible for office, Stanley declared, in his usual vehement way, that ' if that scoundrel were taken in he would not remain himself.'2 If this be the true account, we may imagine Peel's reflections not many years later when...
Página 13 - Rightly was King Charles surnamed the Martyr ; for he was the holocaust of direct taxation. Never yet did man lay down his heroic life for so great a cause : the cause of the Church and the cause of the Poor.
Página 19 - And is England to be governed by Popkins's plan? Will he go to the country with it? Will he go with it to that ancient and famous England that once was governed by statesmen - by Burleighs and by Walsinghams; by Bolingbrokes and by Walpoles; by a Chatham and a Canning - will he go to it with this fantastic scheming of some presumptuous pedant? I won't believe it: I have that confidence in the common sense, I will say the common spirit, of our countrymen...
Página 24 - I confess, to be unrecognised at this moment by you appears to me to be overwhelming, and I appeal to your own heart — to that justice and that magnanimity which I feel are your characteristics — to save me from an intolerable humiliation.
Página 35 - The repeal of the Corn Laws was the first decisive step in that policy of sacrificing the rural life of England to a one-sided and exaggerated industrial development which has done so much to change the English character and the English outlook, and which it may not impossibly be the business of subsequent generations to endeavour to retrace.
Página 19 - — And is England to be governed by ' Popkins's plan ' ? Will he go to the country with it? Will he go with it to that ancient and famous England that once was governed by Statesmen — by Burleighs...
Página 19 - Canning — will he go to it with this fantastic scheming of some presumptuous pedant? I won't believe it. I have that confidence in the common sense, I will say the common spirit of our countrymen, that I believe they will not long endure this huckstering tyranny of the Treasury Bench — these political pedlars that bought their party in the cheapest market, and sold us in the dearest.
Página 13 - ... 1 This passage occurs in Coningsby, and Mr. Monypenny warns us that " his version of the quarrel between Charles I. and the Parliament is too fanciful to be quite serious ; we may believe that he was here consciously paying tribute to the historical caprices of Manners and Smythe.