A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 5Longmans, Green, 1912 - Great Britain |
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Page 52 - For my part, if we are to have free trade, I, who honour genius, prefer that such measures should be proposed by the hon. member for Stockport than by one who .through skilful Parliamentary manoeuvres has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and a great party.
Page 53 - Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland — we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out : ' Let us have no party questions, but fixity of tenure.
Page 304 - ... attention to the study of mathematics was not dissonant to the proper habits of a clergyman. Alas ! sir, so I thought in my ignorance and pride. I have now no reserve in saying that the sentiment was wrong, and that, in the utterance of it, I penned what was most outrageously wrong. Strangely blinded that I was ! What, sir, is the object of mathematical science ? Magnitude and the proportions of magnitude. But then, sir, I had forgotten two magnitudes — I thought not of the littleness of time...
Page 95 - THE work that should to-day be wrought, Defer not till to-morrow ; The help that should within be sought, Scorn from without to borrow Old maxims these — yet stout and true—- They speak in trumpet tone, To do at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES ALONE.
Page 51 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes : but what are they among so many?
Page 215 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
Page 90 - It would be impossible to describe adequately the privations which they and their families habitually and patiently endure. It will be seen in the evidence, that in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water, that their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather, that a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury, and that nearly in all their pig and manure heap constitute their only property.
Page 161 - I beheld, with sorrow, one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their decaying gardens, wringing their hands, and wailing bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless.
Page 292 - And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.
Page 99 - I have seen, with feelings of deep regret and just indignation, the continuance of attempts to excite the people of that country to demand a repeal of the Legislative Union. This bond of our national strength and safety I have already declared My fixed and unalterable resolution, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to maintain inviolate by all the means in My power.