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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
membering, as I do, the masterly speech of Mr. Gladstone when, as chancellor of the exchequer, he on styled its varioloid, revenue reform. Mr. Gladstone appears to have had the subject of Free-tr foreign fashions and foreign makes. When Mr. Gladstone presented to his forester an axe, he did nas brought relief from such opposition. Mr. Gladstone would be humorous, and endeavors to plungede-winds across the Atlantic. Evidently Mr. Gladstone would enforce the reverse of his propositi prohibited. We have changed all that. Mr. Gladstone is pleased to say That in internationaln made an atonement of $15,000,000. But Mr. Gladstone plainly and bluntly builds all of his casttes to the rank of a second-rate power? Mr. Gladstone bestows lofty praise upon the unrivalled sight highly appreciate the good opinion of Mr. Gladstone, he leaves us in no doubt that it cannot bibbon, Motley, and De Tocqueville. Unlike Mr. Gladstone—except that he is also a member of the Bri[19 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Protection. (search)
would be difficult, if not impossible, for Mr. Gladstone to find any principle of administration orr have an absolute answer in advance. But Mr. Gladstone, with an apparent confidence in results astrade has been tried in this country—I ask Mr. Gladstone if a parallel can be found to the material the man who utters it. Every statement of Mr. Gladstone carries weight, but in this case his opini cent. Upon these results, what ground has Mr. Gladstone for his assertion? With great confidence,ton-growers of the South will observe that Mr. Gladstone holds out to them a cheerful prospect! Thices. Protectionists owe many thanks to Mr. Gladstone for his outspoken mode of dealing with thihe Western farmer's instinct is wiser than Mr. Gladstone's philosophy. The farmer knows that the last infringing upon the domain of morals. Mr. Gladstone, however, commits himself to the principleost pronounced form of protection? Does Mr. Gladstone's estimate of the immorality of protection[54 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Westminster Abbey. (search)
ane. In 1737 the monument to Milton was erected by Auditor Benson. The admission of this monument here, a century and a half ago, is one more sign that the Revolution did not wholly fail even in England, and that there were Monument to Sir Peter Warren—Westminster Abbey. those who even then revered the names of Cromwell and Milton. But the principles of that Revolution, never wholly forgotten by Englishmen, were completely triumphant in America. The colonists carried to America, as Mr. Gladstone has said, all that was democratic in the policy of England, and all that was Protestant in her religion. The yoke of absolutism which in the seventeenth century we had not strength to throw off in the mothercountry you escaped in the colony, and there, beyond the reach of the Restoration, Milton's vision proved true, and a free community was founded, though in a humble and unsuspected form, which depended on the life of no single chief, and lived on when Cromwell died. Milton, when th