THE LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE |
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Página 132 - ... become her convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another...
Página 316 - I shall ever gratefully remember his devotion and zeal in all that concerned my personal welfare and that of my family.
Página 36 - He was the member of a privileged caste : he belonged to n conquering race, to a nation that held all others bound down by the strong arm of power. For him there was to be an exceptional system of law ; for him principles were to be asserted, arid by him rights were to be enjoyed, that were denied to the rest of the world.
Página 52 - Roebuck gave notice that he would move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol, and into the conduct of those departments of the Government whose duty it had been to minister to the wants of the army.
Página 29 - Eepeal of the Corn Laws was read a third time in the House of Lords and passed. On the same night the...
Página 59 - British and Chinese authorities in the Canton River ; and, without expressing an opinion as to the extent to which the Government of China may have afforded this country cause of complaint respecting the non-fulfilment of the Treaty of 1842, this House considers that the papers which have been laid upon the table fail to establish satisfactory grounds for the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the Arrow ; and that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the state...
Página 20 - I can only speak from tradition of the struggle for the abolition of slavery; but, if I have not been misinformed, there was engaged in it a man who was the unseen ally of Mr. Wilberforce, and the pillar of his strength ; a man of profound benevolence, of acute understanding, of indefatigable industry, and of that selfdenying temper, which is content to work in secret, to forego the recompense of present fame, and to seek for its reward beyond the grave.
Página 186 - Lords was engaged in a discussion of which the outcome was to fan again into flame the fierce passions of the Home Rule party, and to change completely the whole current of the proposed business of the session. Lord Donoughmore's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Land Act of the previous session was eagerly supported by the principal Irish landlords, who considered the law unsatisfactory.
Página 6 - Peel. Sir John Gladstone was not a man to be trifled with, and, in December, 1832, he had the satisfaction of seeing his brilliant son returned to the first Reformed Parliament as one of the members for Newark.
Página 66 - But there was only one thing they wanted, and a proposal for incorporation with the Greek kingdom was carried unanimously by the Legislative Assembly at Corfu. Gladstone left Corfu on February 19, 1859, and duly reported what he had seen. But it was not till 1864, when King Otho abdicated and was succeeded by King George, that the Islands finally became Greek. On February 28, 1859, Mr. Disraeli, now for the second time Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, brought in his...