| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1860 - 1124 pages
...liberties of Europe,' this care at one time for ' Protestant interests,' this excessive love for the ' balance of power,' is neither more nor less than a...out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain." This was the way in which the hon. Gentleman spoke of the aristocracy and the Church of this country,... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...Protestant interests,' this excessive love for ' the balance of power,' is neitfar more nor less tlian a gigantic system, of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain." (Great cheering and laughter.) Sometimes he descends to more detailed accusations; and out of a multitude... | |
| John Bright - Great Britain - 1869 - 588 pages
...liberties of Europe/ this care at one time for 'the Protestant interests/ this excessive love for ' the balance of power/ is neither more nor less than a...out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain. [Great laughter.] I observe that you receive that declaration as if it were some new and important... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1884 - 996 pages
...spoken of " this regard for the liberties of Europe, this excessive love for the balance of power," as " neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain." But as, when Lord Shaftesbury declared " Ecce Homo " to be the vilest book ever vomited from the jaws... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...liberties of Europe," this care at one time for " the Protestant interests," this excessive love for the " balance of power," is neither more nor less than a...out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.' In a similar spirit, he asserted that the ' accession to office of Lord Derby (in 1866) was a declaration... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1882 - 722 pages
...liberties of Europe," this care at one time for " the Protestant interests," this excessive love for the "balance of power," is neither more nor less than...outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.' (Great laughter.) The hon. member then proceeded to remark upon the great number and the extraordinary... | |
| 1883 - 664 pages
...of such objects as " tbe liberties of Europe," ami the preservation of the " balance of power" was " neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for tbe aristocracy of Great Britain." Sometimes he adopted a style of quiet sarcasm. Speaking in tbe House... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 410 pages
...liberties of Europe," this care at one time for " the Protestant interests," this excessive love for " the balance of power," is neither more nor less than a...out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain. [Great laughter.]28 I observe that you receive that declaration as if it were some new and important... | |
| Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 396 pages
...liberties of Europe," this care at one time for " the Protestant interests," this excessive love for " the balance of power," is neither more nor less than a...out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain. [Great laughter.]26 I observe that you receive that declaration as if it were some new and important... | |
| Fabian Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1925 - 670 pages
...closest examination. John Bright, speaking in 1858, described England's foreign policy as " neithi r more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain." What truth was there in the generalisation at that date? Has it become less true since then? If so,... | |
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