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... honour in resisting the national will . The question of the details of the Bill was , however , a very different matter ; and they , he believed , did not represent the national decision , or , as he showed by extracts from the Duke of ...
... honour in resisting the national will . The question of the details of the Bill was , however , a very different matter ; and they , he believed , did not represent the national decision , or , as he showed by extracts from the Duke of ...
Page 91
... honour upon the House of Lords , and that the ability and eloquence displayed in it were worthy of the best days of parliamentary ora- tory . The argument was conducted on both sides with singular force and skill . The defence of the ...
... honour upon the House of Lords , and that the ability and eloquence displayed in it were worthy of the best days of parliamentary ora- tory . The argument was conducted on both sides with singular force and skill . The defence of the ...
Page 142
... honour by the Bill of last year . The Marquis of Hartington , on the contrary , maintained that the Bill of last year only affirmed the expediency of acquiring this business for the State , and that the House was quite competent to ...
... honour by the Bill of last year . The Marquis of Hartington , on the contrary , maintained that the Bill of last year only affirmed the expediency of acquiring this business for the State , and that the House was quite competent to ...
Page 193
... honour . A few weeks later , Sir Henry Bulwer having given notice of a motion to call attention to our relations with the United States , Mr. Gladstone appealed earnestly to him to relinquish altogether the idea of raising a discussion ...
... honour . A few weeks later , Sir Henry Bulwer having given notice of a motion to call attention to our relations with the United States , Mr. Gladstone appealed earnestly to him to relinquish altogether the idea of raising a discussion ...
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... honour to his order , and , though in his latter years he adhered to the unpopular side in politics , a favourite of the English people . In great emergencies , as in the Lancashire cotton famine , Lord Derby's generous public spirit ...
... honour to his order , and , though in his latter years he adhered to the unpopular side in politics , a favourite of the English people . In great emergencies , as in the Lancashire cotton famine , Lord Derby's generous public spirit ...
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Page 295 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 294 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 242 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
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Page 305 - As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, -without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects.
Page 350 - Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy...
Page 257 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 158 - He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple in...
Page 266 - Malta, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.