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... , AND THE ' MANCHESTER SCHOOL . ' THE INEVITABLE WAR ' AVERTED . THE FRENCH TREATY AND THE PAPER DUTY , 1859-61 XIV . THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 200 215 240 · 254 279 • 296 СНАР . XV . ENGLISH AFFAIRS CONTEMPORARY WITH THE AMERICAN.
... , AND THE ' MANCHESTER SCHOOL . ' THE INEVITABLE WAR ' AVERTED . THE FRENCH TREATY AND THE PAPER DUTY , 1859-61 XIV . THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 200 215 240 · 254 279 • 296 СНАР . XV . ENGLISH AFFAIRS CONTEMPORARY WITH THE AMERICAN.
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... duty of humane conduct . He had not , like so many pupils of more fashionable places of education , unlearned the lessons of his home , and of his own nature - the independence of opinion , the quick response to the whisper of ...
... duty of humane conduct . He had not , like so many pupils of more fashionable places of education , unlearned the lessons of his home , and of his own nature - the independence of opinion , the quick response to the whisper of ...
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... duty to get up and give them to him . In those days there were no lucifer matches , and I have not forgotten the trouble I had to strike a light with the old tinder - box and flint and steel . I had a room over the counting - house ...
... duty to get up and give them to him . In those days there were no lucifer matches , and I have not forgotten the trouble I had to strike a light with the old tinder - box and flint and steel . I had a room over the counting - house ...
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... duties , but only when wheat stood at or below 63 shillings , and it was there- fore a dead letter , as the price never fell below 70 shillings during the rest of the war . Napoleon was a better friend to the landlords than any Corn Law ...
... duties , but only when wheat stood at or below 63 shillings , and it was there- fore a dead letter , as the price never fell below 70 shillings during the rest of the war . Napoleon was a better friend to the landlords than any Corn Law ...
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... duty of one shilling when the price was 73 shillings a quarter , but the duty rose rapidly to a prohibitive standard as the price fell . In practice it was not much better than the Act which it replaced . The advent of the Whigs brought ...
... duty of one shilling when the price was 73 shillings a quarter , but the duty rose rapidly to a prohibitive standard as the price fell . In practice it was not much better than the Act which it replaced . The advent of the Whigs brought ...
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Page 248 - 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 234 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word "Fire!
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 45 - We are bowed down under a load of taxes; which, notwithstanding, fall greatly short of the wants of our rulers; our traders are trembling on the verge of bankruptcy; our workmen are starving; capital brings no profit and labour no remuneration; the home of the artificer is desolate, and the warehouse of the pawnbroker is full; the workhouse is crowded and the manufactory is deserted.
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 144 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill 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 by a sense of injustice.
Page 234 - 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. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one...
Page 136 - 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 224 - Government recklessly plunges into, and which so many of our countrymen at this moment think it patriotic to applaud! You must excuse me if I cannot go with you. I will have no part in this terrible crime. My hands shall be unstained with the blood which is being shed. The necessity of maintaining themselves in office may influence an administration; delusions may mislead a people; Vattel may afford you a law and a defence; but no respect for men who form a Government, no regard I have for 'going...
Page 261 - The only possible solution of the difficulty would appear to be gradually to give the Provinces a larger measure of selfgovernment, until at last India would consist of a number of administrations autonomous in all provincial affairs, with the Government of India above * British Government in India, page 61. them all, and possessing power to interfere in case of mis-government but ordinarily restricting their functions to matters of Imperial concern.