 | Homersham Cox - 1868 - 356 pages
...importance. On the third reading, the Premier concluded the debate with still more ominous language :— No doubt we are making a great experiment, and taking a leap in the dark. But I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 pages
...which was afterwards much commented on, and formed the theme of many criticisms in the public press. " No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 pages
...which was afterwards much commented on, and formed the theme of many criticisms in the public press. " No doubt we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark, but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1871 - 588 pages
...— its results were, not unnaturally, viewed with grave misgivings. The Earl of Derby himself had said, ' No doubt we are making a great experiment, and taking a leap in the dark ; ' ' and many thoughtful men believed the state to be approaching the very verge of democracy. Nor... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 546 pages
...Lord Derby on the third reading of that measure in the Lords. " No doubt," the noble Earl had said, " we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark ; but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow countrymen, and I entertain a... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 556 pages
...Lord Derby on the third reading of that measure in the Lords. " No doubt," the noble Earl had said, " we are making a great experiment and taking a leap in the dark ; but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow countrymen, and I entertain a... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...On the third reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, August 6th, 1867, the Earl of Derby said : " No doubt we are making a great experiment and ' taking a leap in the dark,' but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellowcountrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 pages
...On the third reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, August 6th, 1867, the Earl of Derby said : " No doubt we are making a great experiment and ' taking a leap in the dark,' but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellowcountrymen, and I entertain a strong... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1881 - 274 pages
...as have marked the progress of the bill to which your lordships have just given your assent. . . . No doubt we are making a great experiment, and taking a leap in the darkt but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my fellow-countrymen, and I entertain... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1888 - 800 pages
...1884. — One of the conservative leaders, the Earl of Derby, in the discussions upon the Reform Bill of 1867, said, " No doubt we are making a great experiment,...wisdom and safety of admitting the lower classes to a participation in the government had been demonstrated. In 1884 Mr. Gladstone, then prime minister,... | |
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No doubt we are making a great experiment and ' taking a leap in the dark,' but I have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of my... 
