The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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Page 97
... political movement - Charles Stewart Parnell . He had not a drop of Irish blood in his veins - his education was wholly English - he knew nothing of History - he read no books - he had by nature no gift of IRISH HISTORY SINCE THE UNION 97.
... political movement - Charles Stewart Parnell . He had not a drop of Irish blood in his veins - his education was wholly English - he knew nothing of History - he read no books - he had by nature no gift of IRISH HISTORY SINCE THE UNION 97.
Page 99
... politicians of the time - Gladstone , Morley , Chamberlain , Randolph Churchill , and Carnarvon . He used them all for his own purposes ; he used Chamberlain to get rid of W. E. Forster , a representative of true British integrity , who ...
... politicians of the time - Gladstone , Morley , Chamberlain , Randolph Churchill , and Carnarvon . He used them all for his own purposes ; he used Chamberlain to get rid of W. E. Forster , a representative of true British integrity , who ...
Page 102
... political success was not so much an intellectual success as a character success . His speeches were the reflexion of his own nature , simple , direct , honest . Finesse was not in his armoury , nor expediency his polestar . Then ...
... political success was not so much an intellectual success as a character success . His speeches were the reflexion of his own nature , simple , direct , honest . Finesse was not in his armoury , nor expediency his polestar . Then ...
Page 103
... crime as political weapons . It may well be said in her case , ' Non tali auxilio , nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget . ' Southern Ireland has a great opportunity for turning her face IRISH HISTORY SINCE THE UNION 108.
... crime as political weapons . It may well be said in her case , ' Non tali auxilio , nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget . ' Southern Ireland has a great opportunity for turning her face IRISH HISTORY SINCE THE UNION 108.
Page 126
... political opponent . I was as near despair as I have allowed myself to be in all my lost causes . ' If the Prime Minister refused the challenge on the sensible and obvious grounds of the national emergency , I knew perfectly well that ...
... political opponent . I was as near despair as I have allowed myself to be in all my lost causes . ' If the Prime Minister refused the challenge on the sensible and obvious grounds of the national emergency , I knew perfectly well that ...
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Page 146 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
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