The Living Age, Volume 248Living Age Company, 1906 |
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Page 116
... Whigs to power was the signal for Fox to with- draw from any active part in the con- cern . " Spencer and Hare held the bank last night , " writes Selwyn , " but the Secretary's name is ordered to be left out of that commission , so ...
... Whigs to power was the signal for Fox to with- draw from any active part in the con- cern . " Spencer and Hare held the bank last night , " writes Selwyn , " but the Secretary's name is ordered to be left out of that commission , so ...
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... Whig Op- position . With Lord John Russell's re- turn to office in 1846 Lord Granville once again began to mount the ladder of promotion . It was rapid enough ; Master of the Buckhounds , Vice Presi- dent of the new Board of Trade ...
... Whig Op- position . With Lord John Russell's re- turn to office in 1846 Lord Granville once again began to mount the ladder of promotion . It was rapid enough ; Master of the Buckhounds , Vice Presi- dent of the new Board of Trade ...
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... Whig mind , an irritating process . The evolution of the Whigs happened once for all- a long time ago , at the Revolution , the " glorious Revolution . " Since that epoch there has been no need for Whigs to become anything . From the ...
... Whig mind , an irritating process . The evolution of the Whigs happened once for all- a long time ago , at the Revolution , the " glorious Revolution . " Since that epoch there has been no need for Whigs to become anything . From the ...
Page 203
... Whigs , and if the Radicals should then be obliged to come to me , it will be to some extent better than if I had been put forward by my own friends , therefore I should let Playfair , Fawcett and Co. have their own way as far as ...
... Whigs , and if the Radicals should then be obliged to come to me , it will be to some extent better than if I had been put forward by my own friends , therefore I should let Playfair , Fawcett and Co. have their own way as far as ...
Page 205
... Whig mind is no longer a gen- erating force , but it will always re- main an interesting study . Lord Gran- ville stood a smiling optimist between two worlds . Potent , disintegrating in- fluences were at work all about him ...
... Whig mind is no longer a gen- erating force , but it will always re- main an interesting study . Lord Gran- ville stood a smiling optimist between two worlds . Potent , disintegrating in- fluences were at work all about him ...
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Page 541 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 441 - That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 514 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 520 - Without attempting extended argument in reply to these positions, it may not be amiss to suggest that the doctrine upon which we stand is strong and sound because its enforcement is important to our peace and safety as a nation, and is essential to the integrity of our free institutions and the tranquil maintenance of our distinctive form of government. It was intended to apply to every stage of our national life, and cannot become obsolete while our Republic endures.
Page 44 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God...
Page 4 - There is one to a tiger, which I have heard recited, beginning: Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, Thro' the desarts of the night, which is glorious, but, alas! I have not the book; for the man is flown, whither I know not — to Hades or a Mad House. But I must look on him as one of the most extraordinary persons of the age.
Page 497 - But before he touched the shore, The shore of the Bristol Channel, A sea-green Porpoise carried away His wrapper of scarlet flannel. And when he came to observe his feet, Formerly garnished with toes so neat, His face at once became forlorn On perceiving that all his toes were gone! And nobody ever knew From that dark day to the present, Whoso had taken the Pobble's toes, In a manner so far from pleasant.
Page 515 - That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba and inscribe on it a ne plus ultra as to us in that direction.
Page 4 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life ? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him?
Page 78 - O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.