A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, 6. köideLongmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 424 - There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign Sovereign — clergymen of our own Church who have subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledged in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks, step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.
Page 52 - 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.
Page 53 - Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland — we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out : ' Let us have no party questions, but fixity of tenure.
Page 304 - ... attention to the study of mathematics was not dissonant to the proper habits of a clergyman. Alas ! sir, so I thought in my ignorance and pride. I have now no reserve in saying that the sentiment was wrong, and that, in the utterance of it, I penned what was most outrageously wrong. Strangely blinded that I was ! What, sir, is the object of mathematical science ? Magnitude and the proportions of magnitude. But then, sir, I had forgotten two magnitudes — I thought not of the littleness of time...
Page 95 - THE work that should to-day be wrought, Defer not till to-morrow ; The help that should within be sought, Scorn from without to borrow Old maxims these — yet stout and true—- They speak in trumpet tone, To do at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES ALONE.
Page 51 - There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes : but what are they among so many?
Page 446 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Page 463 - I recommend you dispassionately to consider how far it may be practicable equitably to mitigate that injury, and to enable the industry of the country to meet successfully that unrestricted competition to which Parliament, in its wisdom, has decided that it should be subjected.
Page 215 - As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.