Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review 1864 Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, 1864, Vol. 4 The book is exceedingly difficult to review, because hardly any thing can be said of Mr. Gladstone's proposals which he has not previously said of them himself. He has laid bare to us the processes of reasoning and investigation, - the first idea ma turing gradually into the full-blown conviction. He has stated, analysed, refuted all the arguments against him. He has turned his pr0posals round on every side, and looked at them in every light, until the reader or listener - carried away by the mixture of so much subtlety and so much candour - surrenders his mind to the influence of a man who seems to have foreseen, anticipated, and surmounted more objections to his own plans than the most determined and ingenious antagonist would ever have thought it possible to suggest. In two of these speeches the financial statement of 1853, and the speech On the extension of the In come Tax to Charities - Mr. Gladstone undoubtedly put forth the whole powers of his mind, and exhausted the whole resources of his eloquence: in the first, to force an Income Tax on an unwilling House of Commons; in the second, to extort from an assembly which he well knew had already decided against him the tribute of an involuntary admiration, and of a con viction which some of the most prejudiced of his hearers found it impossible to withhold. Every speech in this volume, how ever, deserves study from those who wish to learn the art of addressing with success an assembly like the House of Com mons. We may read and admire the speeches of the great orators of the earlier part of the century; but the style and man ner suited to the present day can no more be extracted from them than from the orations of Cicero. Mr. Gladstone's treat ment of every subject is essentially modern: it catches and pre serves the tone Of the days in which we live, and shows us at least one style which has been crowned with the most complete success. The advantage, however, after all, of possessing these monuments of splendid eloquence is not so great 'as it seems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, Vol. 4 Mr. Gladstone has collected into a single volume his financial speeches in 1853, 1860, 1861, 1862, and 1863, and added to them, in an appendix, his speech ()n the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill in 1861, and his speech on the extension of the Income Tax to Charities, delivered during the last Session. There is no pre face, and there are not more than half a dozen notes - none of them of any length or importance. The author has thought it unnecessary to deprecate criticism or to conciliate hostility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review: April, 1864 The question of emigration has become so mixed up with the kindred one concerning small farms, and their consolidation into larger ones, that it is difficult to treat the two apart. While, on the one hand, the population in Ireland has been steadily dimi nishing, on the other, the average size of the farms has been as steadily on the increase. It is not to be wondered at that the one fact should have been represented as the consequence of the other; such doubtless has been partially the case, but not to the extent that some persons have supposed. Eviction being the chief means by which the size of farms has been increased, there should, if the emigration were to be accounted for by the consoli dation of farms, be some approximation towards a correspond ence between the statistical returns of eviction and of emigration. But if we compare the return of evictions for the ten years end ing with 1862 with the number of persons permanently leaving Ireland during the same period, we find of the former cases, numbering persons, while the total number of those emigrating during the same period was or about 16 emigrants for every person evicted. Again, the same returns show a proportionate disparity between the diminution in the number of farms (whether caused by eviction or otherwise) and the diminution in the general population of the country. In the twenty years ending with 1862, the period during which the consolidation of farms was most rapid, the number of hold ings in Ireland diminished by about Now, if we allow an average of 45 persons to each holder's family, we shall have but persons dependent on those evicted from or giving up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Publishers Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review 1863 Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, 1863, Vol. 2 Whatever, therefore, may be the immediate or remote issue of the present struggle in the United States, there can be no question that, if the cotton manufacture of Great Britain is to be' sustained in, or, more correctly speaking, re stored to, the position it has hitherto occupied, the first and most pressing need is the discovery of new sources from which to obtain supplies of raw material. Whether we shall ever again have American cotton in the same abundance and at the same price as we had up to last year, is at best uncertain; and even if our doubts on this point should turn out to be nu founded, experience has shown us that even the most certain channel Of import may be stopped up for a time. If it is to rest wholly with the Southern States of America to determine whether the mills of Lancashire are to work or to remain idle, it is much to be desired that cotton should cease to be the preponderating element in the national industry, and con sequently the disturbing element in the national prosperity, which we have been accustomed to see it. Even the immense advantage of cheap calico may be too dearly purchased at the cost of an occasional famine. We can hardly regard the mag nitude of our cotton trade as a reasonable ground for self-con gratulation, unless it can be placed on a footing which may enable us to contemplate even an American war with some approach to equanimity. It must be admitted, however, that the selection of new cotton soils is not quite so simple a mat ter as some persons seem to think. It is easy, no doubt, to draw a line along the 40th parallel Of North latitude, and another along the 3oth parallel of South latitude, and call the intermediate space the cotton zone but after all, when we have ascertained that cotton has at some time or other been grown at various places within those limits, we have not ad vanced very far. The requirements of the plant seem to be neither few nor simple; but our present knowledge of what they amount to is unfortunately scanty. While the art of cotton cultivation under favourable circumstances has attained a very high degree of perfection, the scientific principles on which it is based have been but little investigated, and consequently we are unable to predict with any certainty the' success or failure of new experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, Vol. 2 The paralysis of a great branch of our national industry, and the consequent pauperisation of an entire county, have given more than ordinary interest to the search for new sources from which our supplies of cotton may be drawn. Nor is the question one of merely temporary importance. The state of things which has been SO suddenly interrupted is little likely to be restored in its integrity; and the present derange ment of the cotton trade has in it the elements of permanent change. There are some persons, indeed, who still cling to the belief that the crisis will be short; that a few modifications and readjustments will enable us to tide it over; that at any moment the American ports may be thrown Open; and that the liberation of the cotton now lying there ready to be shipped would be the signal for a complete return to the accustomed order of growth and exportation. There is little probability, however, that these sanguine anticipations will be fulfilled. It is true, indeed, that the military ardour. Of the North seems to'be rapidly cooling down; but this change is probably owing, in a great measure, to the extreme uncertainty and wide differences of Opinion which at present exist as to the Object and method of carrying on the war. The triumph Of one or other of the two great political parties in the Federal States might put an end to this state of things, but it would not necessarily insure the restoration of peace. The propriety of recognising the independence Of the South is not the question now in issue between them. Hereafter it may, not improbably, become so; but at this moment the point of vol. II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, Vol. 3 But the application of the soundest possible principles is, perhaps, a greater difficulty than the ascertainment of the principles themselves; and it is in this application that the rights called the law of nations consist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson Volume 3 written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-07-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834-1902) and Richard Simpson (1820-76) were the principal figures in the Liberal Catholic movement of nineteenth-century England, an ultimately unsuccessful effort to reconcile the Roman Catholic Church with the leading secular thought of the day. They collaborated in editing the Rambler (1858-62) and the Home and Foreign Review (1862-4), two of the most distinguished Catholic periodicals of the period. The correspondence is the record of this collaboration and sheds light on the religious, political and intellectual history of mid-nineteenth-century England. Though heaviest for the years of their joint work on the Rambler and the Home and Foreign Review, the correspondence continued up to 1875, a year before Simpson's death.
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Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review Vol 4 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 4: April and August, 1829 It isjust to take notice, in abatement ofthis objection, such as it is, on the score of prolixity, that M. Sismondi has grven, at the end of each volume, an excellent summary of the contents, serving as a synoptical compendium of the history, not only for reference, but for information. He had adopted the same plan in his Ita lian Republics, and there are, perhaps, few books, whether of a narrative or argumentative character, in which it might not be usefully employ-med The increasing extent of literature will re quire every advantage of machinery to aid the limited capacities of intellectual labour. The index-maker will probably soon take a station in literary usefulness and respectability not much below the lexicographer; in many instances his duties exacta higher de gree of acuteness and knowledge. But in the present Estate of things this task can in general be only executed with perfect ad vantage by the author himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review Vol 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, Vol. 1: Seu Vetus Est Verum Diligo Sive Novum Whenever great intellectual cultivation has been combined with that suffering which is inseparable from extensive changes in the condition of the people, men of speculative or imaginative genius have sought in the contemplation of an ideal society a remedy, or at least a consolation, for evils which they were practically unable to remove. Poetry has always preserved the idea, that at some distant time or place, in the Western islands or the Arcadian region, an innocent and contented people, free from the corruption and restraint of civilised life, have realised the legends of the golden age. The office of the poets is always nearly the same, and there is little variation in the features of their ideal world; but when philosophers attempt to admonish or reform mankind by devising an imaginary state, their motive is more definite and immediate, and their commonwealth is a satire as well as a model. Plato and Plotinus, More and Campanella, constructed their fanciful societies with those materials which were omitted from the fabric of the actual communities, by the defects of which they were inspired. The Republic, the Utopia, and the City of the Sun, were protests against a state of things which the experience of their authors taught them to condemn, and from the faults of which they took refuge in the opposite extremes. They remained without influence, and have never passed from literary into political history, because something more than discontent and speculative ingenuity is needed, in order to invest a political idea with power over the masses of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The American Review of History and Politics and General Repository of Literature and State Papers 1812 Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Robert Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Review of History and Politics, and General Repository of Literature and State Papers, 1812, Vol. 4 An Address of the House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Massachusetts to their Constituents, in relation to the War with Great Britain. Printed by order of the House, june 25, 1812. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
