The History of the Radical Party in ParliamentK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 510 pages |
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The History of the Radical Party: In Parliament (Classic Reprint) William Harris No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 347 - In relinquishing power I shall leave a name, severely censured, I fear, by many who, on public grounds, deeply regret the severance of party ties, — deeply regret that severance, not from interested or personal motives, but from the firm conviction that fidelity to party engagements, the existence and maintenance of a great party, constitutes a powerful instrument of government.
Page 337 - Stockport than by one who through skilful Parliamentary manoeuvres has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and a great party.
Page 470 - You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. The great social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty, and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impede or disturb — those great social forces are against you : they are marshalled on our side ; and the banner which we now carry...
Page 455 - I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
Page 225 - Under these circumstances, he was not prepared to bring forward any measure of the description alluded to by the noble lord.
Page 142 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 344 - I recommend you to take into your early consideration, whether the principles on which you have acted may not with advantage be yet more extensively applied, and whether it may not be in your power, after a careful review of the existing duties upon many articles, the produce or manufacture of other countries, to make such further reductions and remissions as may tend to insure the continuance of the great benefits to which I have adverted, and, by enlarging our commercial intercourse, to strengthen...