| 1876 - 1102 pages
...nations reckless in entering into destructive wars. "The expense of war," said Mr. Gladstone, " is the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty...the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nation?. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement about war, which, notwithstanding... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1855 - 1078 pages
...adoption of that policy, not less strong are the moral reasons. (' Hear, hear ! ') The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. (' Hear ! ") There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement, about war which, notwith... | |
| Charles Francis Bastable - 1892 - 704 pages
...condemnation of the policy of borrowing1. There can be no doubt that the immediate 1 ' The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty...There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and increase of taxation will to some extent damp the ardour of a people for war, which, however, is sometimes... | |
| John Morley - 1903 - 698 pages
...of the enlightened > bureaucrat. CHAPTER V WAR FINANCE — TAX OR LOAN (1854} THE expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest, that are inherent in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory... | |
| John Morley - 1903 - 1144 pages
...1856, and April 24th, I860. 46. CHAPTER V WAR FINANCE — TAX OB LOAN (1854) THE expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest, that are inherent in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory... | |
| John Morley - 1903 - 694 pages
...1855, and April 24th, 1856. 46. CHAPTER V WAR FINANCE — TAX OR LOAN (1864) THE expenses of a war are the moral check which It has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest, that are inherent in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory... | |
| George Richardson Porter, Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1912 - 912 pages
...desirability of concluding as soon as possible an honourable peace. The expenses of a war, he said, " are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations." The Aberdeen Administration fell, and Sir George Cornewall Lewis succeeded Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor... | |
| William Ramage Lawson - 1912 - 468 pages
...penalised by payment on the nail. " The expenses of a war," he said in his Budget speech of 1854, " are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose on the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations." Though when he spoke... | |
| Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1913 - 662 pages
...and economic grounds, sternly opposed. " The expenses of a war," he characteristically said, " are a check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose...lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations . . . The necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditu lich war entails is a salutary and a... | |
| 1916 - 696 pages
...the reckoning Mr. Gladstone was sternly and characteristically opposed. 'The expenses of .a war are a check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. . . . The necessity of meeting from year to... | |
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