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  • There was plenty of interest about town, what with a Society murder - a young sprig of the nobility called Adair getting himself shot mysteriously in the West End - and a crisis in the government, when that dodderer Gladstone finally resigned. Watershed
  • Mr. Gladstone learned, in 1858, that the peoples of the Ionian Islands, then administered by a British protectorate,were agitating for liberty and reunion with the Greek nation. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
  • Evidently Severn enjoyed the taste for he kept more of Brown's letters than any other correspondent's (fifty-nine), preserving the earliest, dated January 15, 1821, for nearly sixty years. 2 Only Gladstone, with thirty letters, appears to have been as important a fixture in Severn's personal archive. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
  • The ￡10,000 scheme has lifted spirits at the school which is close to imported coal mountains at Gladstone Dock.
  • This is about half of the output expected during the first phase of the project, near Gladstone in Qld, which is slated to commence production in 2014. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
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  • His letters stirred Mr. Gladstone into a convulsive paroxysm of burning revolt against the barbarities they described.
  • I can also fully recommend gladstone, always had excellent service and they also seel all the other supplies, kit and gadgets (no pun intended) you need. Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Redcliffe Festival of the Sails On Good Friday Suttons Beach celebrates the start of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race with a colourful beachside bash.
  • Home Rule thus shackled Liberalism to Gladstone.
  • Gladstone agreed that golf-art collectors are people who golf or who know someone who golfs.
  • Penny, who books bands for the Gladstone Hotel, is scraping a ‘breakfast special’ decal off the window.
  • In his 1868 to 1874 government, Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland.
  • The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.
  • After it was over, Gladstone noted to Aberdeen that the vote ‘not only knocked us down but sent us down with such a whack, that one heard one's head thump as it struck the ground.’
  • I remember his quoting with dramatic effect the curse uttered by Meg Merrilees upon Ellan-gowan -- a curse which he intended, of course, to apply to Mr. Gladstone. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
  • Gladstone began to tackle Ireland's oppressive landlordism and disestablished the Irish Protestant church in 1869.
  • She stuffed the toiletries and the Thomas Hardy novel into the Gladstone bag, closed the zip, and straightened up. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • Well, at least the stuff will be exhausted now by these follies of Gladstone's... But I have failed. ANTI-ICE
  • Gladstone had long been a close friend of Michael Faraday, in whom nonconformist religion and science were also united, and wrote one of the earliest and most popular biographies of Faraday.
  • Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russell’s letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstone’s plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was “the most singular and palpable error, ” “the least excusable, ” “a mistake of incredible grossness, ” which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the “incredible grossness” of announcing the Foreign Secretary’s intent. The Battle of the Rams (1863)
  • Gladstone's own books are still on the shelves, complete with his pencilled comments and annotations.
  • I was a member of the thousand-voice choir that sang at the opening of the Gladstone Dock in April, 1913.
  • In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station.
  • On the exterior there are sculpted heads of the likes of Palmerston and Gladstone. Times, Sunday Times
  • The result of “turning over a new leaf,” in the shape of a phial of thin “Gladstone,” was a lumbago which lasted me a long month, and which disappeared only after a liberal adhibition of “diffusible stimulants.” The Land of Midian
  • Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russell’s letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstone’s plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was “the most singular and palpable error, ” “the least excusable, ” “a mistake of incredible grossness, ” which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the “incredible grossness” of announcing the Foreign Secretary’s intent. The Battle of the Rams (1863)
  • The return to a policy of non-intervention in Afghanistan was a reversion to a mid-Victorian orthodoxy, rather than simply a reflection of Gladstone's personal views.
  • Hydrofluoric acid is a powerful bone etchant and -who knows why- people develop erosions in their enamel when they move from Brisbane North to Gladstone, a city affected by dental erosion but also skin allergies, asthma and probably cancer for some specific locations. General Jack D. Ripper had a point....
  • The current situation is that the northern half of Gladstone Road, Russell Road and Palmerston Road are all shared use bays.
  • The bottom half of that Gladstone bag of mine -- a very efficient recorder, I can tell you. THE LONELY SEA
  • She carried a large black leather Gladstone bag in her hand.
  • Will you use the Phaeton to swat Gladstone's shells from the air? ANTI-ICE
  • His letters stirred Mr. Gladstone into a convulsive paroxysm of burning revolt against the barbarities they described.
  • For one thing, it's being held at the Gladstone, that ragged, Romanesque marvel on Queen West, home to bohos and assorted karaoke casualties.
  • Hunter question) I am not any "forrarder," as the farmer said after his third bottle of Gladstone claret. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
  • Indeed in 1892, when it was necessary to appoint a new Poet Laureate, Queen Victoria is reported to have said to Gladstone: ‘I am told that Mr Swinburne is the best poet in my dominions.’
  • The site also houses a trove of audio and video clips, including a recording of William Gladstone in 1888.
  • Gladstone.] [Footnote 49: Cf. his _Histoire diplomatique de l'Europe_.] [Footnote 50: The promulgation was a surprise to him; it was also a defeat, as he had aimed at a direct understanding between Greeks and Bulgars and not at a solution which left the Porte as arbitrator between these two Christian races. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
  • If such concentration of energy is necessary for the success of a Gladstone, what can we common mortals hope to accomplish by "scatteration"? Pushing to the Front
  • The young student of diplomacy, knowing Palmerston, must have taken for granted that Palmerston inspired this motion and would support it; —knowing Russell and his Whig antecedents, he would conceive that Russell must oppose it; —knowing Gladstone and his lofty principles, he would not doubt that Gladstone violently denounced the scheme. Political Morality (1862)
  • As stunned residents looked on, forensic officers worked around a large tent in the alley at the back of Amberley Street which separates a row of back-to-back homes in neighbouring Gladstone Street.
  • In his first ministry from 1868 to 1874, Gladstone implemented many government reforms.
  • In 1979 came a short but strikingly original life of Gladstone in which Stansky used as his core material the texts of some of Gladstone's most important parliamentary speeches.
  • Will you use the Phaeton to swat Gladstone's shells from the air? ANTI-ICE
  • Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle. Making Light: Open thread 136
  • Powergen got the go-ahead for the ￡40m Gladstone Dock facility earlier this year.
  • Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy. Ulysses
  • Nevertheless, like his early hero Gladstone, he refused to trim his sails.
  • This is a nice warmer-upper," said Gladstone manager Gerry Smith. Daily Press
  • One of them for instance, said, "De Valera is like Gladstone, he is intensely religious, completely universal, supremely confident that he is right and frequently wrong. What Next In Ireland?
  • Gladstone thought that money was best left to fructify in the pockets of the people. Cameron's Coup
  • Working in the professor's private laboratory Gladstone produced, first, a report on the analysis of sand from a Normandy beach, and then in 1847 a paper on the explosive guncotton, just a year after its discovery by Christian Schönbein.
  • I was immediately whisked away then taken to Gladstone Psychiatric Hospital, where I was supposed to spend the next few days in detox.
  • Trouble continued on the land in Ireland when Gladstone started his second ministry in 1880.
  • Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock, starting at 8am.
  • In 1857 it was so hot in London that Gladstone noted umbrellas being used as parasols in Piccadilly.
  • Many intellectual lights of the day were attracted to the movement: writers Tennyson and John Ruskin, philosopher William James, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, prime ministers W.E. Gladstone and Arthur Balfour, and especially Frederick Myers, the inventor of the word "telepathy," and Trinity College professor Henry Sidgwick. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • In a conversation with Mr. Gladstone in 1887, he referred to the enormous power and responsibilities of the United States, and suggested that a desideratum was a new unity between our two countries. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
  • The agitation that he led influenced Gladstone to introduce the 1881 Irish Land Act, guaranteeing fair rents, fixity of tenure, and freedom to sell (the Three Fs) to tenants.
  • On the exterior there are sculpted heads of the likes of Palmerston and Gladstone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ultimately, it remains difficult to sustain the comparison between Hart's myopic, young-man-in-a-hurry and the aloof master of Avondale who declined Gladstone's version of an Irish constitution with astonishing froideur in the late 1880s.
  • Island, where we left him, was much less moved by the grotesque accounts given in the local journals of his conduct yesterday than by Mr. Gladstone's "retractation" of the extraordinary attack which he made the other day upon Mr. Roche himself, and four other magistrates by name. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
  • When Gladstone decided that he had got the ultimate solution to the Irish problem and disestablished the Church of Ireland we had a difficult period to establish ourselves as an autonomous Irish church which we now are.
  • The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • At this date 'the general sense of the Irish people' was, to Mr. Gladstone's mind, the policy formulated by the Irish Episcopacy, the scheme which at a later stage of the campaign in the following year he described as the lopping off the three branches of the Upas tree of The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
  • Beneath the windows, Gladstone spots another footprint, this one deeply indented in the soft soil.
  • Gladstone's role as leader is emphasized by his prominent position in the foreground.
  • He was the subject of hagiographies in many languages, and was often bracketed along with Bismarck, Gladstone and Salisbury in the pantheon of world statesmen.
  • Gladstone lived during a period of great social change.
  • The town of Gladstone originally started as two townships.
  • Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
  • In the 1850s and 1860s Gladstone emerged as a politician of clear national standing with a reputation for oratory.
  • I followed Mr Gladstone's Home Rule policy, and used to threep about the noble, generous, warm-hearted sister nation held in a foreign bondage. Mr. Standfast
  • Gladstone will be the better pleased, and take another farthing off 'divi-divi,' or some other commodity in general use and of universal appreciation. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
  • Gladstone had recommended chewing each bite thirty-two times, so Fletcher chewed every mouthful of food until it was pulverized into liquid.
  • Whether Mr. Gladstone himself has any wish to federalise the whole United Kingdom is at least open to doubt. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
  • He had heard the remarkable speech of his friend, Mr. Gladstone, in the Oxford Union, against the Reform Bill, and had written home regarding him, that “a man had uprisen in Israel.” The Grand Old Man
  • Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc.
  • The only prime ministers who really retired but never got a peerage were the great Liberal leader William Gladstone, who declined an earldom, and Churchill, who declined a dukedom.

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