 | Edmund Burke - History - 1877 - 660 pages
...for tradition which is one of the main elements of our social strength ; and, in external affairs, I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire,...elevates the character and condition of a people." All this time the horror excited by the revelations of Turkish atrocities was rising into an almost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1877 - 690 pages
...for tradition which is one of the main elements of our social strength ; and, in external affairs, I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire,...elevates the character and condition of a people." All this time the horror excited by the revelations of Turkish atrocities was rising into an almost... | |
 | J. G. HOLLAND - 1881 - 990 pages
...; and in external affairs I have endeavored to develop and strengthen our empire, believing that a combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people." There is no reason to think that Lord Beaconsfield was insincere in this faith. It was long the fashion... | |
 | Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 418 pages
...; and in external affairs I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our empire, believing that a combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people.' This was a noble declaration for a minister to be able to make, and the recollection of a life spent... | |
 | Literature - 1881 - 980 pages
...; and in external affairs I have endeavored to develop and strengthen our empire, believing that a combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people." There is no reason to think that Lord Beaconsfield was insincere in this faith. It was long the fashion... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 pages
...and in external affairs I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire, believing that the combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people.—Letter to Electors of Buckinghamshire, August 22, 1876. I find that the only charge Lord... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1904 - 398 pages
...; and in external affairs I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our empire, believing that a combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people" sentence quoted in my first chapter from his tract Wliat is he? as well as that later Runnymede Letter... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1904 - 258 pages
...strength. And in external affairs I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire, believing that a combination of achievement and responsibility elevates the character and condition of a people." So does it that of an individual. Benjamin Disraeli came to create and not ' to destroy : to bind and... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1920 - 610 pages
...respect for tradition which is one of the main elements of our social strength; and in external affairs I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire,...elevates the character and condition of a people. In the titles which Disraeli took — Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden —... | |
 | Bernard Holland - Great Britain - 1911 - 534 pages
...respect for tradition which is one of the elements of our social strength, and, in external affairs, I have endeavoured to develop and strengthen our Empire,...elevates the character and condition of a people.' In November 1875 was announced the purchase of a dominant interest in the Suez Canal shares by the... | |
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I have aimed at two chief results. Not insensible to the principle of progress, I have endeavoured to reconcile change with that respect for tradition which is one of the main elements of our social strength ; and, in external affairs, I have endeavoured... 
