An Outline of Political Growth in the Nineteenth Century

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Macmillan, 1900 - 616 strán (strany)

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Strana 293 - And, even if I were alone, if mine were a solitary voice, raised amid the din of arms and the clamours of a venal press, I should have the consolation I have to-night — and which I trust will be mine to the last moment of my existence — the priceless consolation that no word of mine has tended to promote the squandering of my country's treasure or the spilling of one single drop of my country's blood.
Strana 392 - The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it.
Strana 293 - Let it not be said that I am alone in my condemnation of this war, and of this incapable and guilty Administration. "And even if I were alone, if mine were a solitary voice, raised amid the din of arms and the clamours of a venal Press...
Strana 569 - The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
Strana 375 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by her Majesty the Queen.
Strana 465 - For the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect...

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