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... given to the preparation of those efforts by which civilisation is retarded , and mankind made miser- able . The armies of the four great military powers , when on a war footing , engross three and a quarter millions of men in the prime ...
... given to the preparation of those efforts by which civilisation is retarded , and mankind made miser- able . The armies of the four great military powers , when on a war footing , engross three and a quarter millions of men in the prime ...
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... given effect to , and it must be paramount in the counsels of the Foreign Office with regard to those questions . Take another instance of what I mean . The two questions which we had to regulate with Germany in 1886 , at anyrate , were ...
... given effect to , and it must be paramount in the counsels of the Foreign Office with regard to those questions . Take another instance of what I mean . The two questions which we had to regulate with Germany in 1886 , at anyrate , were ...
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... given to the House of Lords than to the other branch of the service . There is little interest taken in the House of Commons now that its members have taken to going to bed like other people . They are in so very different a position ...
... given to the House of Lords than to the other branch of the service . There is little interest taken in the House of Commons now that its members have taken to going to bed like other people . They are in so very different a position ...
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... given to them . They sit sharpening their legislative teeth , but no food is given them to masticate . Now , it was in these circumstances that I , in that youthful moment or youthful moments , offered two pro- posals for the reform of ...
... given to them . They sit sharpening their legislative teeth , but no food is given them to masticate . Now , it was in these circumstances that I , in that youthful moment or youthful moments , offered two pro- posals for the reform of ...
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... given for the best and brightest garden . Well , we want Scotland to be the best and brightest garden in the Empire . But , my Lord , if we wish that , we must put our shoulders to the wheel , and it does not seem an unnatural ...
... given for the best and brightest garden . Well , we want Scotland to be the best and brightest garden in the Empire . But , my Lord , if we wish that , we must put our shoulders to the wheel , and it does not seem an unnatural ...
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Page 38 - With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root, an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...
Page 371 - That the churches of England and Ireland,, as now by law established, be united into one Protestant Episcopal Church, to be called The United Church of England and Ireland; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland...
Page 100 - Who, while the British squadron lay off Cork (God bless the Regent and the Duke of York), With a foul earthquake ravaged the Caraccas, And raised the price of dry goods and tobaccos ? Who makes the quartern loaf and Luddites rise ? Who fills the butchers' shops with large blue flies ? Who thought in flames St.
Page 107 - Discussion on this subject took place both in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons.
Page 89 - In the dark hour of shame, I deigned to stand Before the frowning peers at Bacon's side : On a far shore I smoothed with tender hand, Through months of pain, the sleepless bed of Hyde...
Page 447 - We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo, if we do, We have the ships, we have the men, We have the money too...
Page 371 - England; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland, shall be deemed and taken to be an essential and fundamental part of the Union...
Page 56 - Australia must be almost paramount in the councils of the Foreign Office with regard to these questions. You will have, as I think, to admit the colonies to a, much larger share in your affairs than you do at present. You will have to give them a right to prompt the voice of England, when it speaks abroad, to a much greater extent than at present.
Page 155 - I confess myself in entire accord. He said that before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament, England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice.
Page 18 - I have long entertained the opinion that in virtue of the better education provided by continental nations, England must one day, and that no distant one, find herself outstripped by those nations, both in the arts of peace and war.