Life of the Right Honourable William Edward Forster, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, limited, 1888 |
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Page 514 - Gladstone rose with the House dead against him and his Bill, and made a wonderful speech — easy, almost playful, with passages of great power and eloquence, but with a graceful play which enabled him to plant deep his daggers of satire in Horsman, Fitzmaurice, and Co.
Page 431 - Proceeding to discuss these four schemes, Mr. Forster expressed his fear that the proposal of the National Union must be dismissed as insufficient. " Again, the complete logical machinery of the Birmingham League would quickly undermine the existing schools, would relieve the parents of all payment, • would entail upon the country an enormous expense and — a far more dangerous loss than that of money — would drive out of the field most of those who care for education, and oblige the Government...
Page 525 - ... public and national schools, and as supporting a great system, in which the whole people unite for a great and national object. Then, again, with regard to the School Boards. I do not know that the Government of that day were responsible for the mode of electing School Boards. It was not certainly in the original memorandum of the Bill which I was permitted to see...
Page 509 - ... had caused the disaster which occurred before his accession to office. The menace of a Nonconformist secession proved, as might have been anticipated, to be innocuous. Mr. Dixon brought forward his vote of censure on the Elementary Education Act. This was contained in six Resolutions, of which two complained of the failure of the Act to secure the general election of School Boards and compulsory attendance ; two objected to the operation of the 25th section, and two censured the use of public...
Page 190 - Monckton Milnes came yesterday, and left this morning — a pleasant companionable little man, well fed and fattening, with some small remnant of poetry in his eyes and nowhere else ; delighting in paradoxes, but good-humoured ones ; defending all manner of people and principles, in order to provoke Carlyle to abuse them, in which laudable enterprise he must have succeeded to his heart's content, and for a time we had a most amusing evening, reminding me of a naughty boy rubbing a fierce cat's tail...
Page 455 - ... excluded from our schools ? I confess I have still in my veins the blood of my Puritan forefathers, and I wonder to hear descendants of the Puritans now talk of religion as if it were the property of any class or condition of men.
Page 188 - Well, down we went to the table-d'hote, self at the bottom as last comer, C. and his wife on one side of me, and a tall, starched, gentlemanly Irish parson, the ruling genius, loci on my left. For a time all went on easily in silent feeding or low grumbling, till at last Carlyle began to converse with parson, then to argue with him on Ireland, then to lose thought of all arguments or table-d'hote, and to declaim.
Page 452 - Let each of us," he said, in the peroration of his speech when introducing his bill, " think of our own homes, of the villages in which we have to live, of the towns in which it is our lot to be busy ; and do we not know child after child — boys or girls — growing up to probable crime, to still more probable misery, because badly taught or utterly untaught...
Page 15 - was a woman of a very vigorous mind, and possessing many of the generous virtues in a very high degree. She was large-minded about every thing ; disinterested almost to an excess; careless of difficulty, labour, danger, or expense, in the prosecution of any great object. With these nobler qualities were united some of the imperfections, which belong to that species of ardent and resolute character.
Page 187 - The hunger ia upon us,' was everywhere the cry, and involuntarily we found ourselves regarding this hunger as we should an epidemic ; looking upon starvation as a disease. In fact, as we went along, our wonder was not that the people died, but that they lived ; and I have no doubt whatever that in any other country the mortality would have been far greater ; that many lives have been prolonged, perhaps saved, by the long apprenticeship to want in which the Irish peasant has been trained, and by that...