For nearly five years," he wrote, "the present ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare... The Life of William Ewart Gladstone - Page 83by John Morley - 1907Full view - About this book
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1873 - 566 pages
...the Ministry. The Right Hon. Gentleman wrote : — " For nearly five years the present Ministers hayc harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...species of property in the country. Occasionally they nave varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which has outraged public opinion,... | |
| 1889 - 864 pages
...of Mr. Disraeli, in which the Conservative leader said that for nearly five years Mr. Gladstone had "harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...institution, and species of property in the country." In his speech Mr. Bright referred to the Tories and to the letter of Mr. Disraeli in the following... | |
| 1913 - 610 pages
...Conservative. The most notable sentences have been quoted many times: — " For nearly five усам the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried...every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, inetitution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil... | |
| 1908 - 674 pages
...Whence Î Asked at 10 S. vi. 229, but without result. KPDE " For nearly five years the present Ministry have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class and institution, and species of property in the country.'' Did Disraeli ever say this ? If so, when... | |
| 1913 - 686 pages
...QC, Conservative. The most notable sentences have been quoted many times: — " For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried...been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. AH tliH they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it ; but the country has, I think, made up its... | |
| János Asbóth - 1875 - 224 pages
...Occasionally the have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which has outraged pubüc opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes rninous. AH this they call a policy, and seem qnite prond of it : but the country has, I think, made... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 546 pages
...indeed — all the more so since they could not deny its truth. " For nearly five years," he wrote, "the present ministers have harassed every trade,...public opinion or by stumbling into mistakes which have always been discreditable and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 556 pages
...indeed — all the more so since they could not deny its truth. '• For nearly five years," he wrote, " the present ministers have harassed every trade, worried...public opinion or by stumbling into mistakes which have always been discreditable and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud... | |
| Sir Alfred Robbins - 1879 - 76 pages
...blundering.''— Mil. DiSRAEU, Letter to " My dear Grey," October 3rd, 1873. " For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried...or menaced every class, institution, and species of Five years ago a Dissolution secured the return to the House of Commons of a majority pledged to restore... | |
| George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...respecting an election then pending at Bath, and in the course of it said : " For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried...institution, and species of property in the country." It closed by saying that " the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering... | |
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