 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1913 - 696 pages
...injustice and wrong, not by violence and illegality — but by preserving good conduct, and by the ready and energetic exertion of the moral and intellectual...faculties with which his Creator has endowed him." And this cheerful confidence that all is well with England, and growing better still, is echoed by... | |
 | 1914 - 136 pages
...example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time every individual of such class is constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale — not by injustice and wrong,... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1920 - 1202 pages
...cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned it : whilst, at the same time, every individual is constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale, not by violence and illegality, but by persevering good conduct, and unremitting application of those moral... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1928 - 370 pages
...accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time every 1 individual of each class is constantly striving to...faculties with which his Creator has endowed him." Thus encouraged, the nation formed itself into a sort of 'mutual-admiration society. Lord Derby described... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 pages
...example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time every individual...endowed him. To govern such a people as this is indeed worthy of the ambition of the noblest man who lives in this land, and therefore I find no fault with... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 pages
...Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time each individual of each class is constantly trying to raise himself in the social scale— not by injustice...of the moral and intellectual faculties with which the Creator has endowed him." Samuel Smiles, as we shall see, could have spoken no more persuasively.... | |
 | John Girling - 1997 - 204 pages
...same time each individual of each class is constantly trying to raise himself in the social scale, not by violence and illegality, but by persevering...intellectual faculties with which his creator has endowed him.51 Sir Robert Peel, founder of modern conservatism, insisted no less fervently before a working... | |
 | David M. Knight - 1998 - 576 pages
...example of a nation, in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it ; while at the same time every...faculties, with which his Creator has endowed him." * These words must have filled the heart of every Briton with feelings of pride, and with confidence... | |
 | David Cannadine - 1999 - 330 pages
...example of a nation, in which every class in society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it; while at the same time every individual...constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale." Following his contemporaries, Palmerston was using class not as a collective category but as a way... | |
 | Simonti Sen - 2005 - 260 pages
...Rachana Sangraha (Calcutta: Paschim Banga Niraksharata Durikaran Samiti, 1976), 188. which Providence had assigned to it; while at the same time every individual...and wrong, not by violence and illegality, but by preserving good conduct and by steady and energetic exertion of the moral and intellectual faculties... | |
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We have shown the example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time every individual of each class is constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale... 
