 ... statesmen, with the lessons of all history before their eyes, should have been equally ready to embrace such a rash alliance, or should count upon it as any more than a temporary instrument of faction, is, to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions...  The life and times of the right hon. John Bright - Side 24av William Robertson (reporter.) - 1884Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...ft to say the least of it, one of those self-delusions of the wise, which sho» how vainly the voice of the past may speak amid the loud appeals and temptations of the present. The last Prince of Wales, it is true, by whom u* popular cause was espoused, had left the lesson imperfect,... | |
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