| Edmund Burke - 1876 - 682 pagina’s
...result has been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to act as the leader of the Libcr.il party ; and that, at the age of sixty-five, and after...Believe me always sincerely yours, " WE GLADSTONE." Various were the sentences passed upon this step by the organs of national opinion. The Times maintained... | |
| Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1897 - 706 pagina’s
...dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of spending the closing years of my life. I should, perhaps, add that I am at present, and mean...engaged on a special matter which occupies me closely." No, no. Of course that 's what Mr. G. wrote to "My dear GRANVILLE" more than twenty-two years ago,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1876 - 694 pagina’s
...been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to act as the leader of the Liberal party ; arid that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two...Believe me always sincerely yours, " WE GLADSTONE." Various were the sentences passed upon this step by the organs of national opinion. The Times maintained... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1879 - 524 pagina’s
...not by any means insignificant, were not in existence at the date of that letter. The result has been that I see no public advantage in my continuing to...engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation on the part of a great political chief was without precedent; but while many lamented... | |
| Joseph Irving - 1879 - 164 pagina’s
...Liberal party, they will have my cordial support. I should perhaps add that I am at present, and meau for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter...Congress ordering specie payment to be resumed on ist January, 1879. 16. — Fire at the biscuit factory of Gray and Dunn, Kinning Park, Glasgow, causing... | |
| Joseph Irving - 1879 - 162 pagina’s
...Liberal party, they will have my cordial support. I should perhaps add that I am at present, and meau for a short time to be, engaged on a special matter...Congress ordering specie payment to be resumed on ist January, 1879. 16. — Fire at the biscuit factory of Gray and Dunn, Kinning Park, Glasgow, causing... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 620 pagina’s
...that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two years of a laborious public life, I think myselt entitled to retire on the present opportunity. This...engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation on the part of a great political chief was without precedent ; but while many lamented... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1880 - 1224 pagina’s
...that, at the age of sixty-five, and after forty-two years of a laborious public life, I think myselt entitled to retire on the present opportunity. This...engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation on the part of a great political chief was without precedent ; but while many lamented... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 634 pagina’s
...present opportunity. This retirement is dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of II 2 spending the closing years of my life. I need hardly...engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation on the part of a great political chief was without precedent ; but while many lamented... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 624 pagina’s
...opportunity. This retirement is dictated to me by my personal views as to the best method of spendmg the closing years of my life. I need hardly say that...engaged on a special matter, which occupies me closely.' Such a resignation on the part of a great political chief was without precedent ; but while many lamented... | |
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