The Grand Old Man: Or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of EnglandPublishers' union, 1898 - 586 pages |
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Page 602 - And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 77 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Page 221 - Men of a thousand shifts and wiles, look here ! See one straightforward conscience put in pawn To win a world ; see the obedient sphere By bravery's simple gravitation drawn!
Page 347 - I greatly felt being turned out of office. I saw great things to do. I longed to do them. I am losing the best years of my life out of my natural service. Yet I have never ceased to rejoice that I am not in office with Palmerston, when I have seen the tricks, the shufflings, the frauds he daily has recourse to as to his business. I rejoice not to sit on the Treasury Bench with him.
Page 455 - I give them credit for those patriotic motives which are so incessantly and gratuitously denied to us. I believe that we are all united — indeed, it would be most unnatural if we were not — in a fond attachment, perhaps in something of a proud attachment, to the great country to which we belong...
Page 265 - That the principles which have hitherto regulated the foreign policy of her Majesty's Government are such as were required to preserve untarnished the honour and dignity of this country, and, in times of unexampled difficulty, the best calculated to maintain peace between England and the various nations of the world.
Page 96 - Constitution can be defended ; that the duties of governors are strictly and peculiarly religious ; and that legislatures, like individuals, are bound to carry throughout their acts the spirit of the high truths they have acknowledged.
Page 147 - ... many more, than ninety-nine in every hundred Christians have with one will confessed the Deity and incarnation of our Lord as the cardinal and central truths of our religion. Surely there is some comfort here, some sense of brotherhood, some glory in the past, some hope for the times that are to come.
Page 323 - ... with equal and impartial hand; and we have the consolation of believing that by proposals such as these we contribute, as far as in us lies, not only to develop the material resources of the country, but to knit the hearts of the various classes of this great nation yet more closely than heretofore to that Throne and to those institutions under which it is their happiness to live.
Page 86 - I trace in the education of Oxford, of my own time, one great defect. Perhaps it was my own fault ; but I must admit that I did not learn, when at Oxford, that which I have learned since, viz., to set a due value on the imperishable and the inestimable principles of human liberty.