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... Sir John Bowring's conduct in the new Chinese war . When Sir John Bowring was sent out to China , we ventured , in ... Lord Palmerston setting this matter righteously before the nation , and ordering honourable retribution , but we do ...
... Sir John Bowring's conduct in the new Chinese war . When Sir John Bowring was sent out to China , we ventured , in ... Lord Palmerston setting this matter righteously before the nation , and ordering honourable retribution , but we do ...
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... Lord Palmerston , before August comes , will be obliged to ' appeal to the country . ' The eagles , ' therefore , are now gathering to a common centre . From the North come the Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Graham ; from Paris the ...
... Lord Palmerston , before August comes , will be obliged to ' appeal to the country . ' The eagles , ' therefore , are now gathering to a common centre . From the North come the Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Graham ; from Paris the ...
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... lord decided to dissolve Parliament , he imagined that every one of these ... Palmerston's frank manners are used only to conceal an impenetrable reserve ... Palmerston has sown , there has now sprung up an armed man . But we had intended ...
... lord decided to dissolve Parliament , he imagined that every one of these ... Palmerston's frank manners are used only to conceal an impenetrable reserve ... Palmerston has sown , there has now sprung up an armed man . But we had intended ...
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... Lord Palmerston's description thereof , beginning with the vote which upset Lord Derby , and ending with the shaking of hands with Mr. Speaker . We should next proceed to say , that the past , like every preceding Parliament , had ...
... Lord Palmerston's description thereof , beginning with the vote which upset Lord Derby , and ending with the shaking of hands with Mr. Speaker . We should next proceed to say , that the past , like every preceding Parliament , had ...
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... Lord Palmerston's statements in his address with the dates given in the Chinese blue - book , it has done very effective public service . With a little more sub - editorial care , and the accession of more cultivated talent to its ...
... Lord Palmerston's statements in his address with the dates given in the Chinese blue - book , it has done very effective public service . With a little more sub - editorial care , and the accession of more cultivated talent to its ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.