Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Band 1Longmans, 1882 |
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Seite 72 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend.
Seite 18 - All I seek to ascertain is whether his present policy be just, necessary, expedient ; whether at the present moment he is prepared to serve the country according to its present necessities.
Seite 100 - Now, sir, the Lord High Admiral on that occasion was very much misrepresented. He, too, was called a traitor, and he, too, vindicated himself. ' True it is,' said he, ' I did place myself at the head of this valiant armada ; true it is that my Sovereign embraced me ; true it is that all the muftis in the empire offered up prayers for the expedition ; but I have an objection to war.
Seite 8 - I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Seite 72 - That is a name never to be mentioned, I am sure, in the House of Commons without emotion. We all admire his genius; we all at least most of us - deplore his untimely end; and we all sympathize with him in his fierce struggle with supreme prejudice and sublime mediocrity, with inveterate foes, and with "candid
Seite 80 - Protection appears to be in about the same condition that Protestantism was in 1828. The country will draw its moral. 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.
Seite 542 - ... of labour and industry, that the history of the world offers no parallel to it. And all these mighty creations are out of all proportion to the essential and indigenous elements and resources of the country. If you destroy that state of society, remember this — England cannot begin again. There are countries which have been in great peril and gone through great suffering ; there are the United States...
Seite 171 - I won't believe it: I have that confidence in the common sense, I will say the common spirit, of our countrymen, that I believe they will not long endure this huckstering tyranny of the Treasury Bench— these political pedlars that bought their party in the cheapest market and sold us in the dearest.
Seite 80 - That was a grand thing. We don't hear much of ' the gentlemen of England ' now. But what of that ? They have the pleasures of memory— the charms of reminiscences.
Seite 80 - The right hon. gentleman does what he can to keep them quiet ; he sometimes takes refuge in arrogant silence, and sometimes he treats them with haughty frigidity, and if they knew anything of human nature they would take the hint and shut their mouths. But they won't. And what then happens ! What happens under all such circumstances. The right hon. gentleman being compelled to interfere, sends down his valet, * who says in the genteelest manner,
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