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Admiralty Archbishop Arthur Balfour Asquith Austen Chamberlain Bearsted became believed Bench Bonar Law Brigade brilliant British Cabinet career Carson Chancellor Churchill Coalition Conservative Party courage Court critical debate doubt duties Earl election England English extremely fact gifts Gladstone Government Grey Haig Healy honour House of Commons House of Lords immense intellectual interest Irish judge judicial Justice Labour Lancashire leader less Liberal Party Lloyd George Lord Balfour Lord Bearsted Lord Buckmaster Lord Burnham Lord Curzon Lord Derby Lord Haldane Lord Leverhulme Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury McKenna ment mind never O'Connor once Parliament Parliamentary Parnell perhaps plain political position possessed Prime Minister qualities Ramsay MacDonald realised recall recognised Right Secretary Seely seemed Sir Robert Snowden Socialist success T. P. O'Connor thing Thomas tion to-day Tory Unionist whole Winston young
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الصفحة 71 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
الصفحة 201 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
الصفحة 89 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
الصفحة 141 - If there be any truth established by the universal experience of nations, it is this, that to carry the spirit of peace into war is a -weak and cruel policy. The time of negotiation is the time for deliberation and delay. But when an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which...
الصفحة 59 - The test of the health of a people is to be found in the utterances of those who are its spokesmen, and in the action of those whom it accepts or chooses to be its chiefs.
الصفحة 173 - ... over-seeming greatness, and made it appear that there were others steered and stood at the helm besides himself, and more stars in the firmament of grace, than Ursa Major. He was born, as they say, in Lincolnshire, but, as some aver upon knowledge, of a younger brother of the Cecills of...
الصفحة 87 - We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found Big Cyril (1977) Rectorial address, Glasgow University, 7 November 1923 Contemporary Personalities (1924) 'Marquess Curzon' any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
الصفحة 248 - And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day: and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.
الصفحة 111 - Ethics," with a particular request that he should carefully study what that friend (rightly or wrongly) believed to be the greatest book in the world. Winston read it (or read part of it) and is reported to have said that he thought it very good. " But," he added, "it is extraordinary how much of it I had already thought out for myself.
الصفحة 35 - The man who enters into real and fierce controversy with Mr Lloyd George must think clearly, think deeply and think ahead. Otherwise he will think too late.