Political Speeches in Scotland, November and December 1879 [amd] March and April 1880: With an Appendix, Containing the Rectorial Address in Glasgow, and Other Non-political Speeches [and] Containing Addresses to the Midlothian Electors and a Letter to Count Karolyi, Volumen2A. Elliot, 1880 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Afghan Afghanistan Austria believe bill British called candidates Chancellor charge Colonies condition consequence Conservative constitutional Crown Cyprus Dalkeith deal debt election electors Empire endeavour England Europe Exchequer farmer foreign policy freedom friends gentlemen give Gladstone going hands Home Rule honour House of Commons House of Lords Hypothec important India interests intimidation Inventory Duty Ireland Juniper Green land landlord legislation Liberal party Lord Beaconsfield Lord Dalkeith Lord Derby Lord Palmerston Majesty's Government majority matter means measure ment Midlothian Minister never occasion opinion opponents paid Parliament passed perfectly present Government principles Probate Duty question rates recollect reform regard repeal Russia Scotch Scotland Sir Stafford Northcote six millions sorry to say speak speech Sultan suppose surplus tell tenant things tion told Tory Government Tory party treaty Treaty of Berlin Turkey Turkish vote whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 134 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws...
Página 33 - Austria did all she could to prevent the creation of Belgium ; Austria never lifted a finger for the regeneration and constitution of Greece. There is not an instance, there is not a spot upon the whole map, where you can lay your finger and say, "There Austria did good.
Página 307 - Above all these, and behind all these, there is something greater than these — there is the nation itself. This great trial is now proceeding before the nation. The nation is a power hard to rouse, but when roused, harder still and more hopeless to resist.
Página 42 - I cannot tell you what I think of the nobleness of the inheritance that has descended upon us, of the sacredness of the duty of maintaining it. I will not condescend to make it a part of controversial politics.
Página 27 - ... however deplorable wars may be, they are among the necessities of our condition ; and there are times when justice, when faith, when the welfare of mankind, require a man not to shrink from the responsibility of undertaking them.
Página 28 - That is what I call a good cause, gentlemen. And I though I detest war, and there are no epithets too strong, if \ you could supply me with them, that I will not endeavour to heap upon its head, — in such a war as that, while the breath in my body is continued to me, I am ready to engage.
Página 39 - Remember what in 1876 the proposal of those who approved of the Bulgarian agitation and who were denounced as the enemies of Turkey, remember what that proposal would have done. It would have given Autonomy to Bulgaria, which has now got Autonomy ; but it would have saved all the remainder at less detriment to the rest of the Turkish Empire.
Página 309 - Abroad they have strained, if they have not endangered, the prerogative by gross misuse, and have weakened the empire by needless wars, unprofitable extensions, and unwise engagements, and have dishonoured it in the eyes of Europe by filching the island of Cyprus from the Porte under a treaty clause distinctly concluded in violation of the treaty of Paris, which formed part of the international law of Christendom.
Página 46 - ... who had done him no wrong ; and now he is obliged to spend more of your money in establishing the supremacy of the Queen over a community, Protestant in religion, Hollanders in origin, vigorous and obstinate, and tenacious in character even as we are ourselves — namely, the Dutchmen of the Transvaal.
Página 40 - I will never say that they did it from vindictiveness, I will never say that they did it from passion, I will never say that they did it from a sordid love of office ; I have no right to use such words ; I have no right to entertain such sentiments ; I repudiate and abjure them. I give them credit for patriotic motives — I give them credit for those patriotic motives, which are incessantly and gratuitously denied to us.