PeelMacmillan and Company, 1891 - 246 pages |
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... Minister of England in the first half of the present century , was born in 1788 , the year before the assembling of the States - General in France , and died in 1850 , the year before the opening of the first Great Exhibition of the ...
... Minister of England in the first half of the present century , was born in 1788 , the year before the assembling of the States - General in France , and died in 1850 , the year before the opening of the first Great Exhibition of the ...
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... minister , and never lost that painful sense of shyness and provinciality which made Wellington say of him that " Peel has no manners . " In Robert Peel , the first baronet , however , this family touch of self - consciousness and self ...
... minister , and never lost that painful sense of shyness and provinciality which made Wellington say of him that " Peel has no manners . " In Robert Peel , the first baronet , however , this family touch of self - consciousness and self ...
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... minister ; but though not perhaps over - modest , he was far too sensible not to know that a man rises in public life by his own merits , and not by parental predestination . His father's ambition only involved a reserved and sensitive ...
... minister ; but though not perhaps over - modest , he was far too sensible not to know that a man rises in public life by his own merits , and not by parental predestination . His father's ambition only involved a reserved and sensitive ...
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... Ministry , he would join the Whigs and be lost for ever to the Tory party . Greville discredits the story , which he says was told by Arbuthnot to the Duke of Bedford , but Guizot evidently believed it . There is some discrepancy ...
... Ministry , he would join the Whigs and be lost for ever to the Tory party . Greville discredits the story , which he says was told by Arbuthnot to the Duke of Bedford , but Guizot evidently believed it . There is some discrepancy ...
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... Minister at the time - the others , with the exception of Castlereagh , who for many years was Prime Minister in everything but the name , each became Prime Minister in his turn . On Perceval the judgment pronounced by history has been ...
... Minister at the time - the others , with the exception of Castlereagh , who for many years was Prime Minister in everything but the name , each became Prime Minister in his turn . On Perceval the judgment pronounced by history has been ...
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Page 245 - WALPOLE. By JOHN MORLEY. ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—" It deserves to be read, not only as the work of one of the most prominent politicians of the day, but for its intrinsic merits. It is a clever, thoughtful, and interesting biography.
Page 227 - Let us then unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.
Page 17 - Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion — is more liberal — to use an odious but intelligible phrase— than the policy of the Government...
Page 137 - ... undertake to adopt it. But if the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights the correction of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances, in that case I can, for myself and colleagues, undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.
Page 137 - I consider the Reform bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question — a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means.
Page 235 - In relinquishing power I shall leave a name, severely censured, I fear, by many who, on public grounds, deeply regret the severance of party ties, — deeply regret that severance, not from interested or personal motives, but from the firm conviction that fidelity to party engagements, the existence and maintenance of a great party, constitutes a powerful instrument of government.
Page 150 - I offer you reduced estimates, improvements in civil jurisprudence, reform of ecclesiastical law, the settlement of the tithe question in Ireland, the commutation of tithe in England, the removal of any real abuse in the Church, the redress of those grievances of which the Dissenters have any just ground to complain. I offer you these specific measures and I offer also to advance, soberly and cautiously it is true, in the path of progressive improvement.
Page 235 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 70 - ... high honour which he has obtained. Long may he enjoy the distinction ; and long may it prove a source of reciprocal pride, to our parent university and to himself! Never till this hour have I stated, either in public or in private, the extent of this irretrievable sacrifice; but I have not felt it the less deeply. It is past, and I shall speak of it no more.
Page 95 - He would go still further and say that if at the present moment he had imposed upon him the duty of forming a Legislature for any country, and particularly for a country like this, in possession of great property of various descriptions...