 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 pages
...as I was on a former occasion, in forcible, though familiar language, that " this is the old story ! that all this has been so for the last twenty years,...evil is not casual and temporary, but permanent and inveterate—it is because the detail of misery and of outrage is nothing but " the old story," that... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1856 - 536 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though familiar language, ' This is the old story ! That all this has been so for the last twenty years,...Why, sir, this is the very reason for the change. (Hear, hear, hear.) It is because the evil is not casual and temporary, but permanent and inveterate... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1858 - 794 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though familiar language, that this is the old story ! that all this has been so for the last twenty years, and that therefore there is no reason for change. Why, this is the very reason for a change. It is because the evil is not casual and temporary,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1866 - 590 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though familiar language, that this is the old story ! that all this has been so for the last twenty years, and that therefore-there is no reason for change. Why, this is the very reason for a change. It is because the... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 576 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though familiar language, that this is the old story ! that all this has been so for the last twenty years, and that therefore there is no reason for change. Why, this is the •very reason for a change. It is because the evil is not casual and temporary,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 564 pages
...twenty years, and that therefore there is no reason for change. Why, this is the very reason for a change. It is because the evil is not casual and temporary, but permanent and inveterate— it is because tho detail of misery and outrage is nothing but the 'old story,' that I am contented to run the hazards... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though iamiliar language, that this is the old story ! that all this has been so for the last twenty years, and that therefore there is no reason for change. Why, this is the very reason for a change. It is because the evil is not casual and temporary,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 pages
...not casual and temporary, but permanent and inveterate, — it is because the detail of misery and outrage is nothing but ' the old story,' that I am contented to run the hazards of a change. We cannot 326 " SOMETHING MUST BE DONE." determine upon remaining idle spectators... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 378 pages
...not casual and temporary, but permanent and inveterate ; it is because the detail of the misery and outrage is nothing but 'the old story/ that I am contented to run the hazard of change. We cannot, sir, determine upon remaining idle spectators of the discord and anarchy of Ireland. The... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 280 pages
...told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible though familiar language, that this is the old story ; that all this has been so for the last twenty years, and that therefore there is no reason for change. Why, this is the very reason for a change. It is because the evil is not casual and temporary,... | |
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I ask, sir, could this state of things be suffered to exist, and what course were we to pursue? Perhaps I shall be told, as I was on a former occasion, in forcible, though familiar language, that 'This is the old story! that all this has been so for the... 
