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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.26 (search)
ore of Members are on the qui-vive to discharge upon the submissive body their opinions. I perceive as each would-be speaker rises to attract the Chairman's attention that his thoughts are abundant; but, when he is permitted to speak, the thoughts do not flow so smoothly out of his lips as they may have coursed through his mind! If he is a new Member, he is a pitiable object at such a time. Even the old Members are not always happy. Well, after Sir Charles Dilke sat down, our friend James Bryce rose, who, I must admit, speaks fluently, as well he might, with his great experience as a Lecturer, Member, and Minister. I do not think he is at all nervous; at least, I should not judge him to be so from his manner. After him, rose Mr. McKenna to ask about Siam. I had made a little move, but I was too late, having not quite concluded in my own mind that I ought to speak. When he finished, Commander Bethell had the floor. These old Members shoot to their feet with a sudden spri
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, Index (search)
in the wilds of Africa, 252-255. Binnie, Mr., engineer, 344, 345. Bismarck summons a conference on the Congo State, 338, 339. Bonny, William, 363, 364. Books, Stanley's, in America, 97, 127; later read by Stanley, 237, 240, 429, 432, 433, 458, 459, 463, 475, 508. Bowles, Tommy, 478, 479. Braconnier, 346, 347. Brassey, Lord, 501. Brazza, M. de, 336. Bruce, A. L., urges Stanley to become a candidate for Parliament, 439; death of, 459; Stanley's affection for, 459, 460. Bryce, James, 478. Brynford, 41. Buell, General D. C., on the battle of Shiloh, 203 n. Burdett-Coutts, the Baroness and Mr., 418. Burgevine, General, 166. Burton, Sir Richard F., 423, 424. Campbell-Bannerman, 504. Camperio, Captain, 424. Canterbury, 432, 433. Carnarvon, Stanley's reception at, 431. Carnival, the, at Odessa, 247. Casati, 424. Caucasus, Stanley in the, 245. Cave City, in camp at, 179-185. Chamberlain, the Rt. Hon. Joseph, on the slave-trade in Africa,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Annexed Territory, status of. (search)
isposition and intelligence will warrant. Necessarily, the judgment of this question, however, is with Congress. The Constitution prescribes no rule — could not do so — and the courts cannot review the discretion of Congress. But we are now having it dinned into our ears that expansion is the law of life, and that expansion is not practicable if the Constitution is to go with the flag. Lord Salisbury, some years ago. stated this supposed law of national life. In a recent address, Mr. James Bryce says, by way of comment: He thinks it like a bicycle, which must fall when it comes to a stand-still. It is an awkward result of this doctrine that when there is no more room for expansion — and a time must come, perhaps soon, when there will be no more room — the Empire will begin to decline. If (Great Britain, with her accepted methods of territorial growth. finds the problem of growth by expansion increasingly hard, it will be harder for us, for we are fettered by our tra
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bryce, James, 1838- (search)
Bryce, James, 1838- Historian; born in Belfast, Ireland. May 10, 1838; was graduated at Oxford University in 1862; practised law in London till 1882; and was Professor of Civil Law in Oxford in 1870-93. He was first elected to the British Parliament as a Liberal in 1880. He has distinguished himself alike in politics and historical literature, and is best known in the United States for his work on The American commonwealth.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jews and Judaism. (search)
upernatural will lead many of its members to seek satisfaction elsewhere. That they will seek it in the Jewish synagogue is hardly probable, seeing how the racial and other ties have been broken or at least greatly loosened. They or their children will glide rather into some form of the dominant church, possibly, in the swinging of the pendulum, into some orthodox form of that church. I cannot help quoting the words of an intelligent outside observer of the Jewish question, the Right Hon. James Bryce, M. P.: If Judaism becomes merely Theism, there will be little to distinguish its professors front the persons, now pretty numerous, who, while Christian in name, sit loose to Christian doctrine. The children of Jewish theists will be almost as apt as the children of other theists to be caught up by the movement which carries the sons and daughters of evangelical Anglicans and of Nonconformists towards, or all the way to, the Church of Rome. Where, then, is this centrifugal force to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
rnal care of the poor, as well as of the insane, the blind, and deaf-mutes, and the general absence of all beggars. We appeal finally from Mr. Gladstone to Mr. James Bryce, the author of The American commonwealth, whose work has already placed him in the rank of Gibbon, Motley, and De Tocqueville. Unlike Mr. Gladstone—except thvoted years to the study of the United States and its people, visiting every State of the Union for the sole purpose of impartiality and historic veracity. That Mr. Bryce is competent authority on questions of the morals and selfishness of Americans, none will dispute. Setting forth American characteristics, he says: They at work. （Vol. II., pages 247 and 248.) In works of active beneficence no country has surpassed, perhaps none has equalled, the United States. （Page 579.) Mr. Bryce concludes his great work in the following pregnant words: America has still a long vista of years stretching before her in which she will enjoy conditions <
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
an. E. Devlin, Wm. G. Lambert, A. W. Bradford. W. S. Hatch, W. P. Lee, Erastus C. B.nedict, C. Newbold, W. H. Appleton, Jno. E. Williams, Richard Irvin, William Tucker, Val. G. Hall, James Marsh, Horace Webster, D. A. Cushman, A. C. Richards, Tim'y P. Chapman, Chas. P. Kirkland, Jno. Dimon, Samuel Hotaling, Richard Warren, George Jones, Geo. T. Olyphant, B. Cornell, Jas. W. Underhill, Bernard Kelly, E. H. Ludlow, Thos. J. Barr, A. M. White, James Bryce, R. C. Root, D. B. Fearing, Wm. McMurray, John R. Brady, Henry Hilton, W. F. Havemeyer, Jas. Gallatin, W. B. Crosby, F. B. Cutting, Dan. F. Tiemann, J. S. Bosworth, T. B. Stillman, Geo. T. H. Davis, W. Curtis Noyes, James Lenox, B. R. Winthrop, D. D. Field. The presiding officer said :--Fellow-citizens, we desire to commence this meeting with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Vinton. The reverend gentleman stepped forward, and delivered the following prayer:-- Prayer of
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge a city. (search)
e total valuation $9,312,481, and the city debt $22,000. In 1846, the municipal debt amounted to .0023 of the wealth of the city; in 1895, the debt amounted to .0277 of the city's wealth. It was not intended that this chapter should be a compilation of figures, nor even a mere directory of municipal improvements. It seems necessary, however, that these comparative statistics which have been recorded should be set down in order that the main purpose of the chapter may be carried out. Mr. James Bryce, in his elaborate review of the workings of American municipal government, says: Two tests of practical efficiency may be applied to the government of a city: What does it provide for the people, and What does it cost the people? The facts which have burdened this chapter will answer to a considerable extent, so far as Cambridge is concerned, these two practical questions. Considered historically, the fifty years of Cambridge charter life—the working lifetime of a man—has shown a mo
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
le Cambridge), 9, 16, 236; annexed to Boston, 9. See Third Parish. Broad Canal, 30, 31, 109, 110, 127. Broadway (Clark Road), 37. Broadway Common, 121, 138. Brooks, Phillips, 163, 255. Browne and Nichols school for boys, 212-214. Bryce, James, on American municipal government. 59. Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, 219. Buckley, Daniel A., founder of the Cambridge News, 222. Bunker Hill, the march to, 49. Burial-places, 5, 16; without the common pales, 133; discontinuance, 1; the sectional idea, 55, 56; its condition in 1846, 56, 57; police department organized, 56; end of volunteer fire companies, 56; a sewer system established, 57; early expenses, 57; expenses in 1895, 58, 59; its finances in 1895, 59; answer to Mr. Bryce's tests, 59; development of the spirit of municipal unity, 60; bad roads kept the villages apart, 60; isolation considered necessary by the Old Villagers, 60; one great academic grove, 60; obliteration of sectional lines, 60, 61; water-supply s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
one stem, delighted Lowell hugely; and it was so unexampled in my own experience that it always inspired in me a slight distrust, as being too good to be true. Perhaps it created a little envy, as was the case with Albert Dicey, when he and James Bryce first visited America, and I met them at a dinner party in Newport. Dicey came in, rubbing his hands, and saying with eagerness, Bryce is very happy; at the Ocean House he has just heard a man say European twice! Another and yet more tonicBryce is very happy; at the Ocean House he has just heard a man say European twice! Another and yet more tonic influence, though Lowell was already an ardent Abolitionist, came from the presence of reformatory agitation in the world outside. There were always public meetings in Boston to be attended; there were social reform gatherings where I heard the robust Orestes Brownson and my eloquent cousin William Henry Channing; there were anti-slavery conventions, with Garrison and Phillips; then on Sunday there were Theodore Parker and James Freeman Clarke, to show that one might accomplish something and
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