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... ment of the labours of a new week , a faithful record of its predecessor , an honest comment upon its events , at once turning back a comprehensive glance at the six days gone , and casting forward a prescient gaze at those which are to ...
... ment of the labours of a new week , a faithful record of its predecessor , an honest comment upon its events , at once turning back a comprehensive glance at the six days gone , and casting forward a prescient gaze at those which are to ...
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... ment . But even he could scarcely have anticipated , in his most cynical contemplation of Parliamentary human nature , that the Liberals would have allowed such extreme divergence to obtain between the language of the Finance Minister ...
... ment . But even he could scarcely have anticipated , in his most cynical contemplation of Parliamentary human nature , that the Liberals would have allowed such extreme divergence to obtain between the language of the Finance Minister ...
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... ment is changed ; yet , whereas a year or two ago it was too favourable to French interests and designs , it is now too inde- pendent of the French alliance . So , too , with respect to the bloated armaments " which Mr. Disraeli ...
... ment is changed ; yet , whereas a year or two ago it was too favourable to French interests and designs , it is now too inde- pendent of the French alliance . So , too , with respect to the bloated armaments " which Mr. Disraeli ...
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... ment is inconsistent with the monarchical and aristocratical in- stitutions of this land ; then we answer , let an unflinching economy and retrenchment be enforced - ruat cœlum . " State policy was no great mystery at bottom . " Nearly ...
... ment is inconsistent with the monarchical and aristocratical in- stitutions of this land ; then we answer , let an unflinching economy and retrenchment be enforced - ruat cœlum . " State policy was no great mystery at bottom . " Nearly ...
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... ment , is of infinitely greater importance to the cause of religious truth , and will have far more value , in the estimation of the religious community , than the lives of the majority of those heroes who have made the greatest noise ...
... ment , is of infinitely greater importance to the cause of religious truth , and will have far more value , in the estimation of the religious community , than the lives of the majority of those heroes who have made the greatest noise ...
Términos y frases comunes
affairs American army Austria authority become Birds bloated armaments British Bulkington Catholic Church of England Church-rates classes clergy Cobden Constitution cotton Court defence Disraeli Disraeli's doctrine doubt duty EDWARD NEWMAN Emperor English Engravings Essays Europe expenditure favour Federal foreign France French friends give Government honour hope House of Commons ideas interest Ireland Irish Italy JAMES COCKLE Jesuitism labour Lady less Liberal London Lord Derby Lord Palmerston Louis Phillippe Manchester ment Minister moral MOTHS NAPOLEON nature North number contains opinion paper Parliament peace persons political politicians Pope post free present price 6d principles Protestant Prussia question R. B. Sheridan railway readers Reform regard religious retrenchment RICHARD BENTLEY Roman Rome SAUCE South speech spirit statesman Strand street style sympathy things tion truth TWEEDIE Ultramontane Union vols volume vote Whig Young England
Pasajes populares
Página 125 - The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true, principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty.
Página 17 - No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation : they may manage it, then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.
Página 125 - The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Página 9 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 17 - The constitution and the laws of their predecessors are extinguished then, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. This could preserve that being, till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of thirty-four years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.
Página 127 - I of these, with whom his own ways and ends did concur ? since, to descend, his heart and capacity were so large, that there was not a cunning painter, a skilful engineer, an excellent musician, or any other artificer of extraordinary fame, that made not himself known to this famous spirit, and found him his true friend without hire, and the common rendezvous of worth in his time.
Página 127 - Soldiers honoured him, and were so honoured by him, as no man thought he marched under the true banner of Mars that had not obtained Sir Philip Sidney's approbation.
Página 125 - ... a statesman is the creature of his age, the child of circumstances, the creation of his times. A statesman is essentially a practical character ; and when he is called upon to take office, he is not to inquire what his opinions might or might not have been upon this or that subject — he is only to ascertain the needful, and the beneficial, and the most feasible manner in which affairs are to be carried on.
Página 17 - ... please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished them, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being.
Página 120 - COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART — REAL AND IDEAL BEAUTY — SCULPTURE — ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE— UTOPIAS— OUR INDIAN EMPIRE— THE NATIONAL LIFE OF CHINA — AN IDEAL ART-CONGRESS — BATTLE OF THE STYLES — GENIUS AND LIBERTY— YOUTH AND SUMMER— RECORDS OF THE PAST : NINEVEH AND BABYLON — INDIA : ITS CASTES AND CREEDS — '* CHRISTOPHER NORTH : " IS MEMORIAM. In 1 VOl. 8vO, 12s. NORMAN SINCLAIR. Fiction. By WE AYTOUN, DCL, Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,