St. Stephen's: Or, Pencillings of PoliticiansH. Cunningham, 1839 - 246 Seiten |
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Seite 30 - Ministers will undertake such measures j but of this I am satisfied, that if they do not make up their minds to the course indicated, in time, it will be ultimately forced upon them, and reform will be carried under circumstances much less safe and advantageous than now present themselves. I have been a reformer all my life ; and I will add that never — in my younger days, when I might be supposed to have entertained projects wilder or more extensive than maturer years and increased experience...
Seite 190 - Recorded honours shall gather round his monument. and thicken over him. It is a solid fabric, and will support the laurels that adorn it. I am not conversant in the language of panegyric. These praises are extorted from me ; but they will wear well, for they have been dearly earned.
Seite 183 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men...
Seite 127 - I have no apostacy disgracefully to explain. I have no paltry subterfuge to resort to. I have not to say that a thing is black one day, and white another. I have not been in one year a Protestant Master of the Rolls, and in the next a Catholic lord Chancellor. I would rather remain as I am, the humble member for Plympton, than be guilty of such apostacy — such contradiction — such unexplainable conversion — such miserable, contemptible apostacy.
Seite 127 - ... he was not in one year a Protestant master of the Rolls, and in the next a Catholic lord chancellor. He would rather remain where he was, the humble member for Plympton, than be guilty of such contradiction, such unexplainable conversion, such miserable, such contemptible apostacy.
Seite 28 - That your honourable house will be pleased to take such measures as to your wisdom may seem meet, to remove the evils arising from the unequal manner in which the different parts of the kingdom are admitted to participate in the representation. To correct the partial distribution of the elective franchise, which commits the choice of representatives to select bodies of men of such limited numbers as renders them an easy prey to the artful, or a ready purchase to the wealthy.
Seite 220 - ... pattern even for its sister in this country. But if they are negligent it is of little matter. They are sent to teach duties and doctrines the people abhor. The learned Gentleman has reflected on the landowners, but it would be better to have gentlemen to enjoy the property of the Church, or better have the salaries themselves to reside, than a class of men who can have no community of feeling or interest with their flock, who come, to use emphatic language, to bring a sword, not peace, and who...
Seite 30 - We see the hurricane approaching — we may trace presages of the storm on the verge of the horizon. What course ought we to adopt ? We should put our house in order — we should secure our doors against the tempest.
Seite 91 - ... it is an important question he is about to answer, and the House at last becomes silent. Now you hear a weak voice, hammering and stammering at every four or five sentences, and you wonder how a man without figure, voice, delivery, or fluency, could become the leading orator of the House of Commons. But look over that reporter's notes, and read what he has said. You will find no more eloquence to read than there was to hear, but mark how closely to the point it...
Seite 148 - Mars fuit, ut propius periculum fuerint, qui 10 vicerunt ; odiis etiam prope majoribus certarunt quam viribus, Romanis indignantibus, quod victoribus victi ultro inferrent arma, Pœnis, quod superbe avareque crederent imperitatum victis esse.