Representative British Orations Volume 4 (of 4) With Introductions and Explanatory Notes

You will, gentlemen, when you go forth from these learned precincts and enter upon the actual business of life--you will have in the course of your lives to help to maintain and...

Now, sir, what did the last Reform Bill of Lord Palmerston do? It took away the second member from twenty-five boroughs, and that was the whole of it. It did not break up a sing...

It is well that Greece revolted from Turkey in 1820. In 1827, England, France, and Russia determined upon interposing, and ultimately, in 1828, they resolved to employ forcible...

Then we came to the claim of M. Pacifico--a claim which has been the subject of much unworthy comment. Stories have been told, involving imputations on the character of M. Pacif...

Well, the honorable gentleman asks the £7 upon the ground that it is constitutional--that is, upon the ground of household suffrage. He wants it with a view of letting us down g...

Mr. Chamberlain has never been an orator. Few are the phrases he has coined; fewer still the memorable speeches,--the moments of forensic distinction. He has perhaps been heard...

The Attorney-General--“_this wisest and best of men_,” as his colleague, the Solicitor-General, called him in his presence--the Attorney-General next boasted of his triumph over...

I need not detain you long on the expression “intemperate”; it does not mean any charge of excess of indulgence in any enjoyment; it is not, as the Attorney-General suggested, a...

Now, the fault I find with those who are so fond of attacking me either here or elsewhere, in this country or in others, is that they try to bring down every question to a perso...

If the father of children selected in the open day his adulterous paramour--if the wedded mother of children displayed her crime unblushingly--if the assent of the titled or unt...

The Star-Chamber was soon after abolished. It was suppressed by the hatred and vengeance of an outraged people, and it has since, and until our days, lived only in the recollect...

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NOTE 9, p. 133.--In the short passage here omitted Lord Palmerston deprecates certain aspersions laid by a member of the Opposition upon the Queen’s Advocate, the legal adviser...

With respect to the other complaint, that I did not write to Mr. Wyse an account of what had passed on the 9th of April, the simple reason why I did not was, that he was already...

Here I should close the case--here I should shortly recapitulate my client’s defence, and leave him to your consideration; but I have been already too tedious, and shall do no m...

As a boy, he is described as being notable for vivacity and energy; and, although undoubtedly hastened by family and connections, his early entry into public life was due in som...

That such a result would be desirable, would be in the interest of all of our colonies as well as of ourselves, I do not believe any sensible man will doubt. It seems to me that...

But it has been said that the sending of this fleet was a threat against Russia and Austria. I utterly deny that the sending of the fleet was a threat against either one or the...

We are now called upon to go into Committee on a Bill which has never been read a second time.[23] The two halves of it have been read, each of them a second time, but the whole...

NOTE 21, p. 213.--Here is omitted a minute elucidation of the British Government’s share in the tumultuous and confused Italian politics of Lord Palmerston’s time. The speaker m...