| Robert Elliott Speer - 1904 - 376 σελίδες
...its fitness to administer any new estate which events devolve upon it, and in the fear of God, will ' take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet.' If there are those among us who would make our way more difficult, we must not be disheartened, but... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 584 σελίδες
...While Mr. Gladstone was ever looking forward to a future in which the people of this country would take ' occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet,' Mr. Disraeli was always looking back at the past, and longing to restore the power of the Crown and... | |
| Hazlitt Alva Cuppy - 1904 - 586 σελίδες
...its fitness to administer any new estate which events devolve upon it, and in the fear of God will ' take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet.' " Difficulties of Administration The difficulties of administering the new possessions were complicated... | |
| William Clark Gordon - 1906 - 278 σελίδες
...reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen; And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds...of freedom wider yet By shaping some august decree, t Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate... | |
| Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1906 - 36 σελίδες
...which the policy had been avowed and executed. It was the work of a statesman " Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of Freedom wider yet." Two powerful sentiments were struggling for the mastery in John Hay throughout his life, — love of... | |
| Herbert Thomas John Coleman - 1907 - 136 σελίδες
...genius of the statesman. In his general policy he displayed to a marked degree the ability of knowing "the season when to take occasion by the hand and make the bounds of freedom wider yet." Being defeated in 1850 in his efforts to make the public schools entirely free, he waited for over... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 σελίδες
...closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen ; " And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet ill " By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
| Eighty Club, London - 1907 - 678 σελίδες
...may always be as true of Hungary as of Britain that — " ' Statesmen at her councils met, And knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom broader yet.' For in such sagacious statesmanship, backed by the sober sense of a people's responsibility,... | |
| Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1908 - 1160 σελίδες
...each month. September. British Possessions. "And Statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." 1. What were the objects of the Colonial Conference? 2 Give the names of the Premiers present, and... | |
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