The last century of British historyThomas Laurie, 1871 - 131 pages |
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Page 28 - She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking! He had lived for his love — for his country he died.
Page 15 - Shall this great kingdom, that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have only give us peace?
Page 66 - I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist, who, from less honourable motives, clamours for Protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit. But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 15 - I wage war with no man or set of men. I wish for none of their employments ; nor would I co-operate...
Page 91 - American colonies had, at the same period, 7,567 vessels of 883,189 tons. India and the Asiatic colonies had 218,347 tons, and the Australasian colonies 174,417 tons. The growth of the colonial empire of Great Britain, the result of three centuries of peaceful and warlike enterprise, is illustrated in the subjoined table : — Colonies and dependencies Date and mode of acquisition EUROPE : Gibraltar .... Heligoland .... Malta and Gozo Capture...