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This step seemed to make an end of Home Rule, and strengthened the Sinn Feiners enormously all over the country." A general desire for peace and a sort of Socialistic feeling of brotherhood, I should say, were two further contributory causes. "The prolongation of the war and its dubious end," as Mr. Birrell observed, "turned many heads.
What greater blow to the continuance of land purchase than the Birrell Act of 1909. Granted that some revision of the law was necessary in respect of finance; yet, the Act of 1909 went far beyond finance.
His ideal poet was Pope, and when he read, or rather looked into, Hake’s ‘World’s Epitaph,’ he thought he did Hake the greatest honour by saying, “There are lines here and there that are nigh as good as Pope’s.” On the other hand, Hake’s acquaintance with Borrow’s works was far behind that of some Borrovians who did not know Lavengro in the flesh, such as Mr. Saintsbury and Mr. Birrell.
That is a scheme which occurred to me soon after I saw the veiled Umberto. Mr. Birrell has now stepped in and forestalled my advocacy. Pereant qui but no, who could wish that charming man to perish? The realisation of that scheme is what matters. Let an inventory be taken of those statues.
Tales have been told of Mr. Brontë himself, of his temper, his egotism, his selfishness, his fits of morose or savage temper. The Brontës' biographers, from Mrs. Birrell, have all been hard on this poor and unhappy and innocent old man.
They are authors by their own will and not by grace of God. It may be said of them as Augustine Birrell said of Professor Freeman and the Bishop of Chester, that they are horny-handed sons of toil and worthy of their wage. But one would like to say a little more. Granting that this is praise, it is so faint as to be almost inaudible.
His statue, in marble, adorns a niche in the great cathedral, and his name is secure high on the roll of honor. And if for no other reason, the name and fame of Chelsea should be deathless as the home of Turner. They are but few and meanspirited that live in peace with all men. Tale of a Tub Birrell, the great English essayist, remarks that, "Of writing books about Dean Swift there is no end."
But apparently the Government were not warned, although it is a matter of history that the Irish Party entertained Mr Birrell to a banquet in London the night before they went over to Ireland for the National Convention, and it is equally well known, on the admissions of Mr Redmond, Mr O'Connor and others, that they crossed with the express determination to support the Irish Council Bill and in the full expectation that they would carry it.
The ranks of our good talkers none too numerous a body at the best, and sadly thinned by the losses which I described in a former chapter have been opportunely reinforced by the discovery of Mr. Augustine Birrell.
In the case of more than half the total number of applicants no report had been made, and in more than 450 cases, including, of course, those on the Clanricarde and Lewis estates, inspection of the property had been, as it is still, refused by the landlords. At this juncture Mr. Birrell declared that further legislation was imperatively needed, and to this announcement Mr.
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