Elgin SpeechesEdmonston and Douglas, 1871 - 279 Seiten |
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Seite 161 - The ancient rule, the good old plan, That those shall take who have the power, And those shall keep who can — when the time came that they had lost this preeminence, superiority in strength having passed from them to a nation hitherto counted among their subjects, it was natural and right that the seat of authority should shift with the shift in the balance of power, and that the leadership of the Persians...
Seite 241 - Upstood the Doric fane at last ; And countless hearts on countless years Had wasted thoughts, and hopes, and fears, Rude laughter and unmeaning tears; Ere England Shakespeare saw, or Rome The pure perfection of her dome. Others, I doubt not, if not we, The issue of our toils shall see ; Young children gather as their own The harvest that the dead had sown, The dead forgotten and unknown.
Seite 100 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Seite 81 - I'll bear the weight ; Then be my heart like ocean, common road For all, but only for the dead abode. Man shall not sound the deep o'er which he steers, And none shall count its treasures or its tears.
Seite 224 - Power which giveth and taketh away dominion, and vain would be the impotent prudence of men against the operations of its almighty influence. All that rulers can do is to merit dominion by promoting the happiness of those under them. If we perform our duty in this respect, the gratitude of India and the admiration of the world will accompany our name...
Seite 62 - States has not been in the past, and will not be in the future, unaware of Turkish interests in Cyprus. But, once more warning the Turkish government that its contemplated action could involve the "gravest issues of war and peace...
Seite 175 - I congratulate my hon. friend the member for Swansea. If he does not carry his motion — if he does not gain the present, he has, at least, gained the future. This debate will become historical, for, in the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I see the beginning of the end of the great Irish difficulty.
Seite 38 - The gag forced into the mouth of whomsoever lifts up his voice with a pure heart to preach his faith, that gag I feel between my own lips, and I shudder with pain.
Seite 223 - Asia ; to offer to the youth of Britain their choice of a variety of careers, by all of which, in return for good work done to the natives of India, which those natives of India cannot, in the present stage of their history, do for themselves, an early and honourable independence may be won far more easily than in this country of overcrowded professions and...
Seite 102 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.