Stray Shots: Political, Military, Economical, and Social, Volume 25Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 - 288 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... history of England . I believe that if that disgraceful act had not familiar- ised the nation with dishonour , the desertion of Sinkat and Tokar , of Berber , Khartoum , and finally of Gordon himself , would have been impossible . I ...
... history of England . I believe that if that disgraceful act had not familiar- ised the nation with dishonour , the desertion of Sinkat and Tokar , of Berber , Khartoum , and finally of Gordon himself , would have been impossible . I ...
Pagina 57
... history . A few years ago such an unblushing attempt to serve both God and Mammon , to keep office at any cost of consistency , would have been considered disgraceful . Now , alas ! there is only one deadly sin in the political career ...
... history . A few years ago such an unblushing attempt to serve both God and Mammon , to keep office at any cost of consistency , would have been considered disgraceful . Now , alas ! there is only one deadly sin in the political career ...
Pagina 62
... history of the Land Act has proved one thing , that ' the key of revolution is personal government . ' The very props of social order , as we have hitherto understood the words -- viz . , the rights of property and freedom of contract ...
... history of the Land Act has proved one thing , that ' the key of revolution is personal government . ' The very props of social order , as we have hitherto understood the words -- viz . , the rights of property and freedom of contract ...
Pagina 74
... , nominated or elected ; but this would be no improvement on the House of Lords . American and French history both teach us that elected Senates are generally antagonistic to the Lower House , and 74 ' STRAY SHOTS . '
... , nominated or elected ; but this would be no improvement on the House of Lords . American and French history both teach us that elected Senates are generally antagonistic to the Lower House , and 74 ' STRAY SHOTS . '
Pagina 83
... history of the Prime Minister omitting to meet Parliament at the opening of the session except through enforced absence ' ? Would any previous Parliament have tolerated any other excuse for such an omission from any former Prime ...
... history of the Prime Minister omitting to meet Parliament at the opening of the session except through enforced absence ' ? Would any previous Parliament have tolerated any other excuse for such an omission from any former Prime ...
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