These are facts, Mr. Gladstone claimed, for which the leading Christian nations and statesmen of Europe are responsible.
Probably the three greatest living statesmen of the time were Gladstone, Bismarck and Li Hung Chang.
In other contests, North and South, were discussions by our ablest statesmen of fundamental principles of higher abstractions.
Some of the ablest statesmen and constitutional lawyers have denied the right of the President to remove without cause, especially in such appointments as required the concurrence of the Senate.
Lord Broughton, is one of the statesmen and writers the memory of whom England most reveres.
To the statesmen of South Carolina belongs the invention.
The Southern statesmen feared that the South was losing its relative importance in the Union.
The unenviable position of governor and chief royal commissioner was offered in turn to several English statesmen and declined by all of them.
In his most formal public documents--papers in which statesmen as a rule make scant allusion to Deity--Lincoln's allusions to God are their most imposing feature.
Honour doth appear To statesmen like a vision in the night; And, juggler-like, works o' the deluded sight.
Inspired by thee, dull cits adjust the scale Of Europe's peace, when other statesmen fail.
Sober-minded Canadian statesmen told him that it was useless to attempt to detach from the party individuals--les Vendus their compatriots called them.
As all the distinctive elements in the population remained true to Britain, so too did all the statesmen of eminence.
During this and the following governor-generalship, the predominant influence at the Colonial Office was Lord Stanley, almost the most distinguished of the younger statesmen of the day.
It was in answer to this twofold difficulty that Canadian statesmendefinitely thought of Confederation.
I have dwelt on the views of Burke because here, as in Indian affairs, he was the first of British {4} statesmen to recognize what was implied in the empire, and because his views still stand.
The colonies which remained to England were limited in extent and population; and such difficulties as existed were faced, not so much by the government in London, as beyond the seas by statesmen with local knowledge, like Dorchester.
I find as I look about me that there are two classes of statesmen offering to be helpful in making life worth living in America.
If Jefferson were here, he would break away from everybody, lawyers, statesmen and Congress and go outdoors and look at 1913 for himself.
There are the statesmen who think we are going to be good and who believe in a program which trusts and exalts the people and the leaders of the people.
There are the statesmen who seem to believe that American human nature does not amount to enough to be good.
The next thing statesmen are going to learn in this country is that from a practical point of view in making a great nation only our Tune in America and only our singing our Tune can save us.
Upon the Treasury Bench were seated statesmenlike Mr. Bright, Mr. Forster, and Lord Hartington.
The tireless conflicts of Catholic and Protestant, of landlord and tenant, provoked and disquieted statesmen of every complexion.
We do our best to supply India from time to time with statesmen who shall exercise this tremendous power of government, but who shall at the same time be wise, experienced and courageous.
Yet at the same time the narrow scrutiny to which expenditure had been so long subjected and the habitual reluctance of statesmen to enlarge its bounds, left no very obvious opportunities to the new Chancellor.
He said that was so and he went on to praise Rosebery, and described him as a good combination of will and caution, and added that of all English statesmen he was the one who was most modest and quiet in his acts and attitude.
Cicero is one of the very few pagan statesmen who can be described as a thoroughly conscientious man," he says.
It must be admitted that he was a vane, turning on a pivot finer than those on which statesmen have generally been made to work.
It is these small worries that to many Statesmen are the grimmest realities and the most momentous and effective events of their inner lives.
For nearly an hour he was left alone with the darkness, and the ghosts of dead statesmen and forgotten scenes of oratory, passion, and triumph.
But even our belief in the sincerity of statesmen is apt to be a little shaken when we find a former Prime Minister, none other then the revered Mr. Balfour, devoting himself to the A.
He is the only person living whose judgment would change the place in public estimation held by any of the great statesmen of the Revolutionary times.
These men, with scarcely an exception, have been among the very foremost statesmen of their time.
He seemed to be speaking as ourstatesmen of the Revolutionary time, and the time of framing our Constitution.
Macaulay belonged to the Cambridge Union, where, as in the society of the same name at Oxford, the great topics of the day were discussed by men, many of whom afterward became famous statesmen and debaters in the Commons.
There have been statesmen whose silent influence has decided the issue when the country was at the parting of the ways, of whose service history takes no heed.
In the confederation which followed, Sparta was the nominal head, but the talents, which actually controlled the public affairs, were found in the statesmen of Athens.
In the place of Cleon, the mild Nicias became one of the leading statesmen at Athens, and his efforts resulted in a truce between Athens and Sparta, in 421 B.
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Between the two, I had formed a very poor opinion of American statesmen in general; but the statesmen in "Plutarch" were of a very different type.
Political ladies first, and statesmen afterwards, came to recognize the advantage of obtaining Hayward's good opinion.
Its exterior is adorned with statues and busts of Connecticut statesmen and carvings of scenes in the history of the state.
His Eminent Statesmen and Writers (1880) commemorates to a large extent personal friendships with such men as Dumas, Cavour and Thiers, whom he knew intimately.
His refuge was in round-about manoeuvres, and my lady felt towards him as those intolerant Cumberland statesmen felt before their enmity made the bleak moorland too hot for him.
Sidenote: 1832--The slave trade] The statesmen who had carried the Reform Bill soon found that they had taken upon themselves a vast responsibility.
Melbourne invited the House to consider calmly how overmastering must have been the reasons which compelled any body of rational statesmen to deprive themselves of such a man's co-operation.
He had been in constant companionship with some of the greatest statesmen and orators of his time, but even his devotion to Charles James Fox had never beguiled him into any of Fox's careless, free-and-easy ways.
But when the kissing was over and the three statesmen had departed, the King began to find that he was left practically without a Government.
Huskisson was, beyond doubt, one of the most enlightened statesmen of his time in all that concerned the financial arrangements of the country.
He has laughed the foolish statesmen and imagemakers out of court (vv.
The statesmen hoped to keep back Cyrus by sending sobbing messages to one another, Be of good courage; the priests "by making a particularly good and strong set of gods.
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