The Public Life of the Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G., Etc., Etc, Τόμος 1Chapman & Hall, 1879 |
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Σελίδα xiv
... Quarterly oracle there is , however , something eminently agreeable in the fact that when eight and forty years ago , ' Disraeli the Younger ' first presented himself to Preface . XV the electors of High Wycombe , he xiv Preface .
... Quarterly oracle there is , however , something eminently agreeable in the fact that when eight and forty years ago , ' Disraeli the Younger ' first presented himself to Preface . XV the electors of High Wycombe , he xiv Preface .
Σελίδα xviii
... fact , Lord Beaconsfield is in almost every respect the opposite of Mr. Gladstone . The former is a statesman : the latter a philosopher . If Mr. Gladstone has to argue a point or to defend a policy , he will strengthen his position by ...
... fact , Lord Beaconsfield is in almost every respect the opposite of Mr. Gladstone . The former is a statesman : the latter a philosopher . If Mr. Gladstone has to argue a point or to defend a policy , he will strengthen his position by ...
Σελίδα xxi
... fact . Mr. Gladstone , for example , habitually speaks of his opponents as though they were not merely mistaken but wilfully wrong and open to the gravest moral censure on account of their erroneous opinions . It may be doubted whether ...
... fact . Mr. Gladstone , for example , habitually speaks of his opponents as though they were not merely mistaken but wilfully wrong and open to the gravest moral censure on account of their erroneous opinions . It may be doubted whether ...
Σελίδα xxiii
... fact may be due to his wonderful reticence . No matter what the attack may have been he has been silent . The House of Commons , and in later days , the House of Lords , have been the only places in which his voice has been heard , save ...
... fact may be due to his wonderful reticence . No matter what the attack may have been he has been silent . The House of Commons , and in later days , the House of Lords , have been the only places in which his voice has been heard , save ...
Σελίδα xxiv
... fact suffered so much from mis- representation , or has had attributed to him so frequently words which he never uttered , and sentiments which he never entertained ; none has so much to gain by the promulgation of the exact truth ...
... fact suffered so much from mis- representation , or has had attributed to him so frequently words which he never uttered , and sentiments which he never entertained ; none has so much to gain by the promulgation of the exact truth ...
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Σελίδα 144 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.
Σελίδα 204 - A dense population in extreme distress inhabit an island where there is an established Church which is not their Church ; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. "Well, what then would honorable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position ? They would say at once, 'The remedy is revolution.
Σελίδα 118 - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig Parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir, Mr.
Σελίδα 224 - Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the people, who, I believe, mistrust you. For me there remains this at least — the opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief that a Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.
Σελίδα 435 - House feels it a duty to declare that it will continue to give every support to her Majesty in the prosecution of the war, until her Majesty shall, in conjunction with her Allies, obtain for this country a safe and honourable peace.
Σελίδα 313 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles conferred by a foreign Power has excited strong feelings in this country ; and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me expressing attachment to the Throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them...
Σελίδα 43 - Wandering over that illustrious scene, surrounded by the tombs of heroes and by the confluence of poetic streams, my musing thoughts clustered round the memory of that immortal song, to which all creeds and countries alike respond, which has vanquished Chance, and defies Time.
Σελίδα 180 - I conclude that it was, on his side, but the blustering artifice of a rhetorical hireling; availing himself of the vile license of -a loose-tongued lawyer, not only to make a statement which was false; but to make it with a consciousness of its falsehood.
Σελίδα 135 - Government; when they recollected the "new loves" and the "old loves" in which so much of passion and recrimination was mixed up between the noble Tityrus of the Treasury Bench and the learned Daphne of Liskeard...
Σελίδα 38 - D'Israeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and but for the energy of his action and the strength of his lungs, would seem a victim to consumption.