A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volum 1Harper and brothers, 1879 - 327 sider |
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A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to ..., Volum 1 Justin McCarthy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to ..., Volum 1 Justin McCarthy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to ..., Volum 1 Justin McCarthy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
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Side 273 - Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.
Side 34 - With an eloquence — not like those rills from a height, Which sparkle and foam, and in vapour are o'er ; But a current that works out its way into light Through the filtering recesses of thought and of lore.
Side 100 - ... reasonable that the great officers of the court, and situations in the household held by members of Parliament, should be included in the political arrangements made in a change of the administration ; but they are not of opinion that a similar principle should be applied or extended to the offices held by ladies in her majesty's household.
Side 72 - House, that, if the anticipated increase of letters should be realized, "the mails will have to carry twelve times as much in weight; and therefore the charge for transmission, instead of £100,000, as now, must be twelve times that amount. The walls of the Post-Office would burst ; the whole area in which the building stands would not be large enough to receive the clerks and the letters.
Side 33 - Whose nobility comes to thee, stamp'd with a seal, Far, far more ennobling than monarch e'er set ; With the blood of thy race, offer'd up for the weal Of a nation, that swears by that martyrdom yet...
Side 296 - That is a name never to be mentioned, I am sure, in the House of Commons without emotion. We all admire his genius. We all, at least most of us, deplore his untimely end; and we all sympathise with him in his fierce struggle with supreme prejudice and sublime mediocrity — with inveterate foes and with candid friends.
Side 305 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Side 223 - His appearance was of great debility and the tones of his voice were very still. His words indeed only reached those who were immediately around him, and the ministers sitting on the other side of the green table, and listening with that interest and respectful attention which became the occasion. It was a strange and touching spectacle to those who remembered the form of colossal energy and the clear and thrilling tones that had once startled, disturbed, and controlled, senates.
Side 287 - He was very showily attired, being dressed in a bottle-green frockcoat, and a waistcoat of white, of the Dick Swiveller pattern, the front of which exhibited a network of glittering chains; large fancy-pattern pantaloons, and a black tie, above which no shirt collar was visible, completed the outward man. A countenance lividly pale, set out by a pair of intensely black eyes, and a broad but not very high forehead, overhung by clustered ringlets of coal-black hair, which, combed away from the right...
Side 280 - I recommend you to take into your early consideration, whether the principles on which you have acted may not with advantage be yet more extensively applied, and whether it may not be in your power, after a careful review of the existing duties upon many articles, the produce or manufacture of other countries, to make such further reductions and remissions as may tend to...