William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of Social and Political Progress, Volumes 3-4Blackie, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... able and interesting , and he brought very poor , cold , and wet land to a high state of cultivation ; but the experimental farms at Tiptree did not pay , and eventually Mr. Mechi , having spent a large sum of money , died poor ...
... able and interesting , and he brought very poor , cold , and wet land to a high state of cultivation ; but the experimental farms at Tiptree did not pay , and eventually Mr. Mechi , having spent a large sum of money , died poor ...
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... able him to claim them as allies without the formality of a treaty . It may be doubted whether those confidential suggestions were treated by Lord Aberdeen with sufficient de- cision . That amiable nobleman , who sought peace , was ...
... able him to claim them as allies without the formality of a treaty . It may be doubted whether those confidential suggestions were treated by Lord Aberdeen with sufficient de- cision . That amiable nobleman , who sought peace , was ...
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... able , except from the point of view of the " Peace Party , " who mostly thought that even the disappearance of the Turkish Empire from the map of the world would not be an overwhelming calamity . The situation was the more critical ...
... able , except from the point of view of the " Peace Party , " who mostly thought that even the disappearance of the Turkish Empire from the map of the world would not be an overwhelming calamity . The situation was the more critical ...
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... able to say or surmise any ill of me has conscientiously contributed his faggot to the burning of the heretic , and I may say with pride , that not the veriest tittle of a reproach can be brought against me with truth . I have myself ...
... able to say or surmise any ill of me has conscientiously contributed his faggot to the burning of the heretic , and I may say with pride , that not the veriest tittle of a reproach can be brought against me with truth . I have myself ...
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... occupiers rated at £ 6 who had been resident within the borough for two years and a half . Boroughs having fewer than 300 electors or able to its reception . Probably Lord John alone felt 50 GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
... occupiers rated at £ 6 who had been resident within the borough for two years and a half . Boroughs having fewer than 300 electors or able to its reception . Probably Lord John alone felt 50 GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
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Page 5 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 117 - It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.
Page 76 - I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
Page 76 - I feel entirely satisfied with the treatment I have received on my trial. Considering all the circumstances, it has been more generous than I expected. But I feel no consciousness of guilt.
Page 120 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 106 - I cannot but regard your decisive utterances upon the question as an instance of sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country. It is indeed an energetic and reinspiring assurance of the inherent power of truth, and of the ultimate and universal triumph of justice, humanity, and freedom.
Page 137 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and the lowly, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.
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Page 210 - That it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to alter the law of rating ; and to provide that in every parliamentary borough the occupiers of tenements below a given...
Page 89 - Now, in order that none of our subjects may unwarily render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the said statute, we do hereby strictly command, that no person or persons whatsoever do commit any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute imposed, and of our high displeasure. And we do hereby further warn...