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... Colonies and the Empire - The restoration of the authority of the law in Ireland - Disraeli's strength and Disraeli's weakness - Prefers an ambitious foreign policy - Russia and Turkey - The Eastern question - Two possible policies and ...
... Colonies and the Empire - The restoration of the authority of the law in Ireland - Disraeli's strength and Disraeli's weakness - Prefers an ambitious foreign policy - Russia and Turkey - The Eastern question - Two possible policies and ...
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... colonies more closely to the mother country . The colonies and India , with the encouragement of an advantage in the home market , could supply corn without limit , and their connection with us would be cemented by interest ; while if ...
... colonies more closely to the mother country . The colonies and India , with the encouragement of an advantage in the home market , could supply corn without limit , and their connection with us would be cemented by interest ; while if ...
Page 158
... colonies had revolted against ourselves ; if they quarrelled , and a minority of them desired independence , the minority had as good a right to shake off the North as the thirteen original States to shake off the mother country . The ...
... colonies had revolted against ourselves ; if they quarrelled , and a minority of them desired independence , the minority had as good a right to shake off the North as the thirteen original States to shake off the mother country . The ...
Page 208
... colonies revolted , the Irish Catholics offered their swords and their services to ' the best of kings , ' and only when the Penal Laws were relaxed and they were allowed an instalment of liberty did they again attempt insurrection ...
... colonies revolted , the Irish Catholics offered their swords and their services to ' the best of kings , ' and only when the Penal Laws were relaxed and they were allowed an instalment of liberty did they again attempt insurrection ...
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... colonies to the mother country . In the heyday of Free Trade , when England was to be made the workshop of the world , the British Empire had been looked on as an expensive illusion . The colonies and India were supposed to contribute ...
... colonies to the mother country . In the heyday of Free Trade , when England was to be made the workshop of the world , the British Empire had been looked on as an expensive illusion . The colonies and India were supposed to contribute ...
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Page 235 - If you look to the history of this country since the advent of Liberalism — forty years ago — you will find that there has been no effort so continuous, so subtle, supported by so much energy, and carried on with so much ability and acumen, as the attempts of Liberalism to effect the disintegration of the Empire of England.
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Page 235 - But selfgovernment, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the sovereign as their trustee...
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Page 236 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
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Page 106 - ... to me of conservative principles; but he does not inform me what they are. I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are concessionary, not conservative principles. This party treats institutions as we do our pheasants, they preserve only to destroy them.
Page 107 - We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the Church; the open and flagrant sale of its honours by the elder Stuarts; and the borough-mongering of our own times.