Five Years of Tory Rule: A Lesson and a WarningHodder and Stoughton, 1879 - 64 oldal |
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Address Afghanistan Afghans Ameer Amendment appointment April asked Batoum British officers Budget Cabinet Cabul Carnarvon censure Cetewayo Chancellor Committee Conservative constituencies contradiction course Debate declared defeat deficit Despatch to Lord Disraeli Dissolution distress Duke Earl Granville effect Election endeavoured England English envoy Exchequer expenditure fact favour foreign frontier Gladstone honour House of Commons House of Lords increase India Irish July Liberal Lord Beaconsfield Lord Chelmsford Lord Cranbrook Lord Lytton Lord Northbrook Lord Salisbury Lord Sandon majority Malt Tax March Marquis of Salisbury massacre matter measure ment Ministry months motion nation never officers in Afghanistan opinion Opposition pamphlet Parliament peace Permissive Bill political present Premier Prime Minister promised proposed Publicans question reply revenue Sclater Booth session of 1879 Shere Shere Ali ships Sir Bartle Frere Sir Stafford Northcote speech statement surplus Theodorodi tion TORY RULE Treaty Turkey Turkish Viceroy Viscount W. E. Forster withdrawn Zulu
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50. oldal - I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself...
36. oldal - ... violation of the law of the place. If, therefore, while your ship is within the territorial waters of a State where slavery exists, a person professing or appearing to be a fugitive slave seeks admission into your ship, you will not admit him, unless his life would be in manifest danger if he were not received on board. Should you, in order to save him from this danger, receive him, you ought not, after the danger is past, to permit him to continue on board ; but you will not entertain any demand...
59. oldal - The most we can do is to tell the noble lord what is not our policy. We will not threaten and then refuse to act. We will not lure on our allies with expectations we do not fulfil.
28. oldal - I desire to protest, in the most earnest language I am capable of using, against the political morality on which the manoeuvres of this year have been based. If you borrow your political ethics from the ethics of the political adventurer, you may depend upon it the whole of your representative institutions will crumble beneath your feet.
59. oldal - House that which it has for so long a time past been without — the legitimate influence and salutary check of a constitutional Opposition. That is what the country requires, what the country looks for. Let us do it at once in the only way in which it can be done, by dethroning this dynasty of deception, by putting an end to the intolerable yoke of official despotism and Parliamentary imposture.
6. oldal - Conservatism assumes in theory that everything established should be maintained; but adopts in practice that everything that is established is indefensible. To reconcile this theory and this practice, they produce what they call
6. oldal - Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country.
57. oldal - Something has risen up in this country as fatal in the political world as it has been in the landed world of Ireland we have a great Parliamentary middleman. It is well known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party, and plunders the other, till, having obtained a position to which he is not entitled, he cries out, 'Let us have no party questions, but fixity of tenure.
17. oldal - At the moment when Sir Lewis Pelly was closing the conference his Highness was sending to the Mir Akhor instructions to prolong it by every means in his power ; a fresh Envoy was already on the way from Cabul to Peshawur ; and it was reported that this Envoy had authority to accept eventually all the conditions of the British Government. The Viceroy was aware of these facts when he instructed our Envoy to close the conference.
36. oldal - In dealing with this question the officer should be guided, before all things, by considerations of humanity. Whenever, in his judgment, humanity requires that the slave should be retained on board, —as in cases where the slave has been, or is in danger of being, cruelly used, — the officer should retain him.