... had needlessly, recklessly, and as if deliberately, wounded; and all to no purpose. It was too late to undo the work of the Whig Cabinet. The Abyssinian monarch was implacable, and defied us We had, therefore, the choice of .deserting our fellow-subjects ...

... without information was the conduct of agitators rather tlnn of statesmen; but agitation was a part of the tactics of the Whigs. EvPn if the scheme were carried through this house, however, it had not the slightest chance of passing the House of Lords ...

... statesmen to stir up a question without being prepared with any measure upon it which it sepmed to be the special function of the Whig party to agitate and not to legislate. For many a year they agitated the question of parliamentary reform, but if the present ...