ReminiscencesMacmillan, 1910 - 477 páginas |
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... interest . The young are now , perhaps , by pastimes and summer gatherings , brought more together than they were in those days and provided with more pleasure . It may be doubted whether the life of the elders is so social . A friend ...
... interest . The young are now , perhaps , by pastimes and summer gatherings , brought more together than they were in those days and provided with more pleasure . It may be doubted whether the life of the elders is so social . A friend ...
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... interests , and when the household was broken up , took their pensions , and went into no other service . I am afraid they were not highly educated ; I doubt whether they could have produced a grammatical letter among them . The old ...
... interests , and when the household was broken up , took their pensions , and went into no other service . I am afraid they were not highly educated ; I doubt whether they could have produced a grammatical letter among them . The old ...
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... interest in public questions . " Pop , " as the Debating Society , from being held over a ginger- beer shop , was called , was very vivacious , and bred orators , Gladstone among the number ; though that great man's cloquence lost by ...
... interest in public questions . " Pop , " as the Debating Society , from being held over a ginger- beer shop , was called , was very vivacious , and bred orators , Gladstone among the number ; though that great man's cloquence lost by ...
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... interest and encouragement ; but we really depended for instruction upon private tutors ; " coaches " they were called . I was coached at different times by Congreve , then Fellow of Wadham , and a strong Liberal and Evangel- ical of ...
... interest and encouragement ; but we really depended for instruction upon private tutors ; " coaches " they were called . I was coached at different times by Congreve , then Fellow of Wadham , and a strong Liberal and Evangel- ical of ...
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... interest I recall their names . One of them I saw afterwards a Roman Catholic priest . We lived a happy life in our junior Common Room , seeing perhaps rather too little of the University out- side , though my Eton connection gave me ...
... interest I recall their names . One of them I saw afterwards a Roman Catholic priest . We lived a happy life in our junior Common Room , seeing perhaps rather too little of the University out- side , though my Eton connection gave me ...
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Página 300 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 429 - Without effecting the change so rapidly or so roughly as to shock the feelings and trample on the welfare of the existing generation, it must henceforth be the first and steady purpose of the British Government to establish an English population, with English laws and language, in this Province, and to trust its government to none but a decidedly English Legislature.
Página 258 - The manufacturers of Yorkshire and Lancashire look upon India and China as a field of enterprise, which can only be kept open to them by force ; and, indeed, they are willing apparently to be at all the cost of holding open the door of the whole of Asia for the rest of the world to trade on the same terms as themselves. How few of those who fought for the repeal of the Corn Law really understand the full meaning of Free Trade principles...
Página 229 - feels that his personal liberty is sacred, and he cares little for equality. And here I will repeat," says Cobden, "that I would rather live in a country where this feeling in favour of individual freedom is jealously cherished, than be without it in the enjoyment of all the principles of the French Constituent Assembly.
Página 213 - 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 213 - I am not going to trouble you with claims similar to those with which you must be wearied. I will not say that I have fought since 1834 four contests for your party, that I have expended great sums, have exerted my intelligence to the utmost for the propagation of your policy, and have that position in life which can command a costly seat.
Página 263 - It was this conviction,' he says, ' which induced me after some deliberation to throw the responsibility upon Peel ; and he is not only alarmed at it, but indiscreet enough to let everybody know that he is so.' Surely this goes far to justify anything that Peel really said. Mr. Morley quotes, as the best judgment that can be passed on the affair, a letter written immediately after it by Cobden, in which Peel is accused of hypocritically feigning emotion, and said to have incurred ridicule as a coward....
Página 243 - May I predict that if we should succeed to the extent above named, there would not be wanting shrewd members of the Tory aristocracy who would be found advocating universal suffrage, to take their chance in an appeal to the ignorance and vice of the country against the opinions of the teetotallers, nonconformist and rational Radicals, who would constitute nine-tenths of our phalanx of forty shilling freeholders.
Página 261 - ... that virulent attack upon Peel, for which I have been gently rapped on the knuckles by Miss Martineau, yourself, and many other esteemed correspondents. It was an unpremeditated ebullition. Tell your good brother I will keep a more watchful guard over the old serpent that is within me for the future. You must not judge me by what I say at these tumultuous public meetings.