 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1876 - 682 pages
...result has been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to act as the leader of the Libcr.il party ; and that, at the age of sixty-five, and after...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely. " Believe me always... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1876 - 694 pages
...been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to act as the leader of the Liberal party ; arid that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two...support, I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely. " Believe me always... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1879 - 166 pages
...leadership of the Liberal party. Reviewing the position of matters as described in his letter of the 1 2th, the result has been, he writes, " that I see no public...support. I should perhaps add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter which occupies me closely. Believe me always... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1879 - 524 pages
...not by any means insignificant, were not in existence at the date of that letter. The result has been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - Great Britain - 1880 - 1224 pages
...that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two years of a laborious public life, I think myselt entitled to retire on the present opportunity. This...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 620 pages
...that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two years of a laborious public life, I think myselt entitled to retire on the present opportunity. This...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...continuing to act as the leader of the Liberal party ; and at the age of sixty -five, and after forty -two years of a laborious public life, I think myself entitled...Liberal party, they will have my cordial support." In consequence of Mr. Gladstone's wish, thus strongly expressed, the members of the Liberal party,... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Christian biography - 1880 - 634 pages
...present opportunity. This retirement is dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of II 2 spending the closing years of my life. I need hardly...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 624 pages
...opportunity. This retirement is dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of spendmg the closing years of my life. I need hardly say that...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 546 pages
...retirement is dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of spending the closing y«ars of my life. I need hardly say that my conduct in Parliament...support. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation... | |
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I see no public advantage in my continuing to act as the leader of the Liberal party ; and that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two years of a laborious public life, I think myself entitled to retire on the present opportunity. This retirement... 
