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... biographical sketch of the celebrated journalist , occupying nearly a column - a feat worthy of record . It may not be - we will assume it is not— necessary for a publication like the " Dictionary of National Biography " to adopt this ...
... biographical sketch of the celebrated journalist , occupying nearly a column - a feat worthy of record . It may not be - we will assume it is not— necessary for a publication like the " Dictionary of National Biography " to adopt this ...
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... National Biography's Memoir of Edward VII . - Criticisms and refutations - Newspaper attacks on Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort and discus- sions in Parliament - Mr . Gladstone , in a newspaper , champions the Queen and the Prince ...
... National Biography's Memoir of Edward VII . - Criticisms and refutations - Newspaper attacks on Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort and discus- sions in Parliament - Mr . Gladstone , in a newspaper , champions the Queen and the Prince ...
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... National in 1900 , " has always been con- sidered to be neither unduly elated by success nor dismayed by reverses ... Biography " certain Disraelian dicta culled from " Coningsby " and ' Sybil " ; e.g .: " The only way to terminate class ...
... National in 1900 , " has always been con- sidered to be neither unduly elated by success nor dismayed by reverses ... Biography " certain Disraelian dicta culled from " Coningsby " and ' Sybil " ; e.g .: " The only way to terminate class ...
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... National Biography . " . ་ ་ King Edward in his True Colours . " is now come to regard as the first statesman of 18 MORE ABOUT KING EDWARD.
... National Biography . " . ་ ་ King Edward in his True Colours . " is now come to regard as the first statesman of 18 MORE ABOUT KING EDWARD.
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... National Biography's " Memoir of October 1912. My only desire is to show those who CALUMNIATING KING EDWARD 135.
... National Biography's " Memoir of October 1912. My only desire is to show those who CALUMNIATING KING EDWARD 135.
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Page 1 - He is possessed by a commanding spirit, And his, too, is the station of command. And well for us it is so ! There exist Few fit to rule themselves, but few that use Their intellects intelligently. Then Well for the whole, if there be found a man Who makes himself what nature destined him, The pause, the central point, to thousand...
Page 141 - Palmerston out of office last year; that she first hampered him in the Foreign Office, by insisting on seeing his despatches before he sent them off, and then that she compelled John Russell to dismiss him on the ground of disrespectful conduct to herself, when the real reason was condescension to the wishes of Austria, with which Power the Prince had intimately connected himself. Charges of this sort, mixed up with smaller collateral ones, have been repeated day after day with the utmost virulence...
Page 3 - ... capable of removing our social grievances, were we to transfer to it those prerogatives which the Parliament has gradually usurped, and used in a manner which has produced the present material and moral disorganisation.
Page 143 - Derby was put into a great rage by Aberdeen's speech, and could not resist attacking me (whom he saw behind the Throne). He attacked my letter (signed C.), in which I had pitched into the Tories for their attacks on the Prince. I saw his people turn round and look towards me, but I did not care a fig, and was rather pleased to see how what I wrote had galled them, and struck home.
Page 4 - Multitude ; as the power of the Crown has diminished, the privileges of the People have disappeared ; till at length the sceptre has become a pageant, and its subject has degenerated again into a serf.
Page 209 - I bind them proudly on my locks of snow. There shall they bide, till he who follows next, Of whom I cannot even guess the name, Shall by Court favour, or some vain pretext Of fancied merit, desecrate the same,— And think, perchance, he wears them quite as well, As the sole bard who sang of Peter Bell!
Page 140 - Advertiser," but chiefly in the latter, and was immediately taken up by the Tory papers, " The Morning Herald " and " The Standard," and for some time past they have poured forth article after article and letter after letter full of the bitterest abuse and all sorts of lies. " The Morning Advertiser" has sometimes had five or six articles on the same day all attacking and maligning Prince Albert. Many of these are very vague, but the charges against him are principally to this effect ; that he has...
Page 142 - has been full of coarse and stupid invectives against me, supplied by correspondents, who, from the details in their letters, must be persons with whom I live in great social intimacy. They are, however, of a very harmless description, and too dull to be effective. January 25th. — I wrote a letter in the ' Times ' (signed Juvenal), showing up the lies of the ' Morning Advertiser,' and how utterly unworthy of credit such a paper is. I find Palmerston and Aberdeen have come to an understanding as...
Page vi - For first he desired to have the sovereign rule; next he endeavoured to ap: pear worthy of it; then thought it but reasonable, as a man, to enjoy his exalted fortune; and lastly, he turned his thoughts to such actions, as might perpetuate his name, and transmit some image and effect of his government to futurity.