Sir A. Henry Layard, G.C.B., D.C.L.: Autobiography and Letters from His Childhood Until His Appointment as H. M. Ambassador at Madrid, Volume 2Scribner, 1903 |
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Page 252 - views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation, and is of opinion that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been sacrificed in public appointments to party and family influences, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise to great misfortunes, and threatens to bring discredit upon the national character, and to involve the country in grave disasters.
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Page 252 - That this House views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation ; and is of opinion, that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been sacrificed, in public appointments, to party and family influences, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise to great misfortunes, and threatens to bring discredit upon the national character, and to involve the country in grave disasters.
Page 205 - ... the filthy pavement. Ponderous ladders are reared against the painted aisles, and large nails are driven in with remorseless hands. Flakes of yielding plaster fall in showers to the ground, and things that have cost years of earnest thought and loving labour are gone for ever. On the following days the fumes of incense and the smoke of a thousand tapers roll up from the altars, and, uniting with the fetid exhalations of an Italian crowd, curdle over the walls. Talk of London smoke, why, Italian...