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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.28 (search)
Chapter XXIV farewell to Parliament
London, Thursday, May 19th, 1898.
Presided at Sir Alfred Lyall's lecture, on Chartered companies and Colonization, before the Society of Arts.
I have always a feeling, when observing an audience in England, that the people who appear to be listening are engaged upon their own particular thoughts.
I have sometimes said to myself, Life with such people is not an earnest affair.
They have come, out of sheer amiability, or to tide over an idle hour.
They mechanically smile, and do not mind languidly applauding when someone warns them it is time to do so.
In my remarks at the close of Sir Alfred Lyall's lecture, I took the opportunity of comparing the French doings at the end of the eighteenth century with those at the end of the nineteenth century, and predicted that when the French appeared on the White Nile, England would have to speak in no uncertain voice to France, or all our toils and expense, since 1882, in Egypt and the Soudan, wo
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, Index (search)