The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 1Bartram & Lester, 1866 - Great Britain |
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... American complaint against the English Government at many periods of our his- tory - especially since our home troubles began . The barom- eter of British feeling towards us , during our Rebellion , was graduated exactly to the wavering ...
... American complaint against the English Government at many periods of our his- tory - especially since our home troubles began . The barom- eter of British feeling towards us , during our Rebellion , was graduated exactly to the wavering ...
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... American Republic has begun , and it is too late to arrest it by any policy on our part , which any American statesman or party would dare to pro- pose . How serious this contest may grow , will depend on England alone . The solution of ...
... American Republic has begun , and it is too late to arrest it by any policy on our part , which any American statesman or party would dare to pro- pose . How serious this contest may grow , will depend on England alone . The solution of ...
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... American Colonies , they put this great thing in : " Our children's education must be provided for , and zealously looked after , as one of the first * I am fully aware this is no easy work for an English statesman . It is only now and ...
... American Colonies , they put this great thing in : " Our children's education must be provided for , and zealously looked after , as one of the first * I am fully aware this is no easy work for an English statesman . It is only now and ...
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... AMERICAN COMMERCE by British cruisers , was far more complete than it could have been had war actually existed between England and the United States . Then , all seas would have swarmed with our privateers , and it would have been the ...
... AMERICAN COMMERCE by British cruisers , was far more complete than it could have been had war actually existed between England and the United States . Then , all seas would have swarmed with our privateers , and it would have been the ...
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... American tonnage , 5,921 , 285. Cleared , do . 6,165,924 . Foreign tonnage entered , 2,353 , 911. Cleared ... American commerce , the consequence being to raise the premium of insurances on American vessels and their cargoes , and to ...
... American tonnage , 5,921 , 285. Cleared , do . 6,165,924 . Foreign tonnage entered , 2,353 , 911. Cleared ... American commerce , the consequence being to raise the premium of insurances on American vessels and their cargoes , and to ...
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Page 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 76 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 74 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 79 - Sympathy towards a soldier will surely induce your excellency, and a military tribunal, to adapt the mode of my death to the feelings of a man of honour.
Page 75 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
Page 94 - But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, Thy name, loved Erin ! shall live in his songs, Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs ! The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep, Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive and weep ! WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON'S LIGHT.
Page 74 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 167 - What, then, was the duty of an English Minister ? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That was the Irish question in its integrity.
Page 279 - Islands — the frenzy of believing, or making believe, that the adults of the nineteenth century can be led like children, or driven like barbarians ! This it is that has conjured up the strange sights at which we now stand aghast ! And shall we persist in the fatal error of...
Page 61 - ... usage of me, at his general judgment-seat, where both you and myself must shortly appear, and in whose judgment I doubt not, whatsoever the world' may think of me, mine innocence shall be openly known and sufficiently cleared.