 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1899 - 514 σελίδες
...simply to say that he seems to me to have been an academic statesman and administrator who knew how and "when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." 5. But the contrast to Stanley suggests another and most distinctive characteristic. Jowett was one... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1899 - 408 σελίδες
...prolific vigor that might well have been infused into it by those who so pre-eminently " Knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." In truth, the whole matter seems to have been discussed, if it were discussed at all, in a hasty, perfunctory... | |
 | Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1899 - 456 σελίδες
...name must in a certain sense be an opportunist ; a Liberal statesman must know — . . . the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. Mr. Gladstone was an opportunist, but, as more than one incident in his career shows — notably, for... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 392 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 2 " By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 752 σελίδες
...closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen; " And statesm.en at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet " .Z?y shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken stilt, Broad-based upon her people's... | |
 | David Hutchison MacGregor - 1901 - 152 σελίδες
...bigots with a theory, but men in touch with and responsive to the spirit of their age ; " Who knew the season when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." His speeches on the Irish question, as it then appeared, well show how much in hand did he hold the... | |
 | Louis Creswicke - 1901 - 318 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 1 By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broadbased upon her people's... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1901 - 492 σελίδες
...Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. (e) 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. HINTS FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS 1 Set at the Matriculation Examinations of London University. 1. Account... | |
 | Abraham Van Doren Honeyman - 1901 - 444 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 » 44 By shaping some august decree. Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her 'people's... | |
 | William McKinley - 1901 - 136 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." April 19. The republic has marched on and on, and its every step has exalted freedom and humanity.... | |
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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... 
