British Statesmen: Lives of Aberdeen-Russell-Palmerston-Graham-Gladstone, EtcT. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; and Edinburgh., 1854 - 346 頁 |
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第 177 頁 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
第 244 頁 - Stockport than by one who through skilful Parliamentary manoeuvres has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and a great party.
第 163 頁 - I will not bate a jot of heart or life so long as the glorious principles and the immortal martyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence by the great mass of a nation which looks with contempt on the mummeries of superstition, and with scorn at the laborious endeavours which are now making to confine the intellect...
第 161 頁 - I agree with you in considering the late aggression of the Pope upon our Protestantism as insolent and insidious, and I therefore feel as indignant as you can do upon the subject. I not only promoted, to the utmost of my power, the claims of...
第 163 頁 - What, then, is the danger to be apprehended from a foreign prince of no great power, compared to the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Church of England herself?
第 161 頁 - There is an assumption of power in all the documents which have come from Rome ; a pretension of supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times. I confess, however, that my alarm...
第 268 頁 - That the principles on which the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government have been regulated have been such as were calculated to maintain the honour and dignity of this country ; and in times of unexampled difficulty, to preserve peace between England and the various nations of the world.
第 156 頁 - In 1841, I announced the intention of the then Government of proposing a fixed duty of 8s. a quarter. In the past session I proposed the imposition of some lower duty. These propositions were successively rejected. The present First Lord of the Treasury met them in 1839, 1840, and 1841, by eloquent panegyrics of the existing system — the plenty it had caused, the rural happiness it had diffused.
第 187 頁 - I have spoken more strongly than usual, because of unhappy circumstances that have forced themselves upon the observation of all. The threats of those, who are enemies of the church, make it the more necessary for those who feel their duty to that church to speak out. The words which you hear from me are, indeed, spoken by my mouth, but they flow from my heart.
第 244 頁 - Dissolve, if you please, the Parliament you have betrayed, and appeal to the people, who, I believe, mist|-ust you. For : me there remains this, at least, the opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief that a Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.