The Critic in Parliament and in Public; Or the Spirit of Parliamentary Debates, and Sketches from Courts, Conventions, and Platforms, Since 1835George Bell, 1841 - 188 páginas |
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Página 62 - Scotland, and of Ireland, flowed in the same stream, and drenched the same field. When the chill morning dawned, their dead lay cold and stark together ; — in the same deep pit their bodies were deposited — the green corn of spring is now breaking from their commingled dust — the dew falls from heaven upon their union in the grave.
Página 99 - ... to protect an infamous contraband traffic, and if it were never to be hoisted except as it is now hoisted on the coast of China, we should recoil from its sight with horror...
Página 62 - I know, a generous heart in an intrepid breast ; — tell me, for you must needs remember — on that day when the destinies of mankind were trembling in the balance — while death fell in showers...
Página 71 - I make my appeal to the Commons, who represent the free people of England ; and I require at their hands the performance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price — that condition which all their constituents are in breathless anxiety to see fulfilled ! I appeal to this House. Hereditary judges of the first tribunal in the world — to you I appeal for justice ! Patrons of all the arts that...
Página 58 - They are the beatings of the soul against the bars of its clay tenement, which, if ruffled in the collision, attest at once, by their strength and their failure, that it is destined to move in a wider sphere. And yet the products of divine philosophy melt away into the intellectual atmosphere which they enrich, and become the dreams and the assurances of others...
Página 61 - ... earliest achievement in which he displayed that military genius which has placed him foremost in the annals of modern warfare, down to that last and surpassing combat which has made his name imperishable — from Assaye to Waterloo — the Irish soldiers, with whom your armies are filled, were the inseparable auxiliaries to the glory with which his unparalleled successes have been crowned.
Página 62 - ... tell me if, for an instant, when, to hesitate for an instant was to be lost, the "aliens
Página 61 - The battles, sieges, fortunes that he has passed," ought to have come back upon him. He ought to have remembered that, from the earliest achievement iu which he displayed that military genius which has placed him foremost in the annals of modern warfare, down to that last and surpassing combat which has made his name imperishable — from...
Página 22 - They are not to gain the knowledge most valuable to the members of a rational and civilized community. History — the school of princes — must present closed doors to their subjects ; the great book of civil wisdom must to them be sealed. For why ? There are some of its chapters, and near the latter end of the volume, which it is convenient they should not peruse. Civil history, indeed !— the History of Rulers...
Página 80 - ... the inferior soils of this country, for the purpose of applying it to the rich but unprofitable wastes of Poland. Still we should hesitate. We should remember with pain the cheerful smiling prospects which were thus to be obscured. We should view with regret cultivation receding from the hill-top, which it has climbed under the influence of protection, and from which it surveys with joy the progress of successful toil.