The Life of John BrightThe life of John Bright can hardly fail to possess a dual interest apart from its value as a contribution to the political history of England, for not only was Bright a tribune after the type of Lincoln, but it sould be remembered that he espoused the cause of the North in the Civil War. |
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Page 462 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 240 - Fire!' is given; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for.
Page 68 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 150 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice.
Page 254 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 43 - Cobden called upon me as his friend, and addressed me, as you might suppose, with words of condolence. After a time he looked up and said, 'There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers, and children are dying of hunger. Now,' he said, 'when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me, and we will never rest till the Corn Law is repealed.
Page 332 - 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 142 - Fit retribution ! Gaul may champ the bit And foam in fetters ; — but is Earth more free ? Did nations combat to make One submit ; Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty ? What ! shall reviving Thraldom again be The patch'd-up idol of enlighten'd days ? Shall we, who struck the Lion down, shall we Pay the Wolf homage...
Page 20 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 296 - Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States...