A Modern History of the English People, Volume 1G. Richards Limited, 1913 - GT. BRIT. |
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Page 205 - DEAR SIR, — I am not surprised at your friend's anger, but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy. But you can tell him, and all others concerned, that though I regret the accident of Lord F. Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts.
Page 300 - ... into the lists, and commanded them to unhelm the conquered champion. His eyes were closed - the dark red flush was still on his brow. As they looked on him in astonishment, the eyes opened - but they were fixed and glazed. The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death. Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. "This is indeed the judgment of God," said the Grand Master, looking upwards - "'Fiat voluntas...
Page 79 - ... is more rationally intelligible when illustrated by lights falling not only from the century he wrote in, but from our own, which has seen the course of its history twenty-five times diverted by actual or attempted crime.
Page 334 - with the object of securing the collective ownership of all the means of production, distribution and exchange, by means of direct Labour representation in Parliament and on local authorities.
Page 62 - I know by my own feelings and desires what these men want, what would have saved them from this lowest depth of savagery : employment which would foster their self-respect and win the praise and sympathy of their fellows, and dwellings which they could come to with pleasure, surroundings which would \/ soothe and elevate them ; reasonable labour, reasonable \ rest. There is only one thing that can give them this — art" Two other passages from the same address are memorable.
Page 232 - im, But you've got to know 'im fust " was of this date) reveals depths of innocent ease. Strenuous ideas, social conventions, had in many directions been relaxed. People of exalted birth were going almost ostentatiously into trade ; impoverished younger sons were taking positions in city businesses, and noble ladies were opening millinery shops. With the decline of fashionable sestheticism, artists had taken to dressing in the ordinary smart clothes of men about town, and velvet and long hair were...
Page 431 - ... the Maine on 15th February there was probably not an American in the whole of the States who did not believe it to be the act of Spaniards — a deliberate and dastardly act of hostility. But before war actually broke out, a third shifting of British interest occurred. The reconquest of the Soudan was undertaken in good earnest. A year earlier, on 5th February 1897, Sir Michael Hicks Beach had announced in the House of Commons the intention of the Government to " give the final blow to the baleful...
Page 78 - It is liberty alone," says Mr. Gladstone in words of profound wisdom, "which fits men for liberty. This proposition, like every other in politics, has its bounds; but it is far safer than the, counter doctrine, wait till they are fit.
Page 46 - Had Davitt come to America in the beginning of 1877,' said a member of the Clan-na-Gael to me, ' he would have found a few men ready to discuss the new 1 Parnell Commissioners
Page 161 - Hansard' on the point at issue, and reports the result as follows : ' It is certain that when Lord Granville moved the second reading of the Bill in the House of Lords, on...