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With the air of a pleased child he led me in the way he wished me to go, only letting go my arm when he saw I really meant to inspect his stones. "This is an unusual exhibition for Jock," I thought, but in the character of Mr. Hobhouse there was nothing for it but pretending high gratification and going where he led me.
Sir R. Milbank contended, that modifications of a system, fundamentally wrong, ought not to be tolerated by the legislature of a free nation, Mr. Hobhouse said, that nothing could be so nefarious as this traffic in blood. It was unjust in its principles it was cruel in its practice: it admitted of no regulation whatever. The abolition of it was called for equally, by morality and sound policy, Mr.
She was a daughter of Byron's celebrated friend Mr. Hobhouse, subsequently Lord Broughton, and had received something of a really classical education under the semipaternal auspices of Thomas Love Peacock.
No one blames the Boer women on the farms for this; they have taken an active part on behalf of their own people in the war, and they glory in the fact. But no one can take part in war without sharing in its risks, and the formation of the Concentration Camps is part of the fortune of war. In this spirit 'they have agreed, as Miss Hobhouse says, 'to be cheerful and make the best of it.
But it was in the month of June, and he could not do that, and hear from him again before the close of the session. He told me that Sir John Hobhouse, then President of the India Board, was very much against it; and I answered, 'Doubtless he is, because he speaks as the mouthpiece of the East India Company, against whom I am bringing this inquiry.
The next moment Lal Hobhouse was pouring out his story with a redundant selection from his choicest vocabulary of abusive epithet, which was impartially divided between the rustlers and the cowhands under his charge. Nan waited patiently, her eyes studying her father's face.
Hobhouse, I never could discover any one pledge given by him, to show that he was a friend to a real constitutional and efficient Reform. He dealt in general terms, such as his father Sir Benjamin, or Burke, or any other apostate from the cause of Liberty, might have used with perfect safety.
But in the later phases of evolution all three of these processes blend together; and it would be impossible for the keenest analyst to tell how much of his conduct was determined in each of these ways. I and chap. II, through sec. 4; or J. Fiske, Cosmic Philosophy, part II, chap, XXII, first half, to "We are now prepared to deal." L. T. Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution, part I, chap. I, secs. 1-4.
"Do you know him?" he asked sharply. "Oh, no, no! Oh dear me, no! It's only that I have a very foolish and very stupid prejudice against Irishmen as I presume he was." Mr. Hobhouse laughed pleasantly, and inwardly he laughed still more pleasantly, for his shot came off. "So have I," agreed the doctor, and there was no doubt that he was in earnest. Mr.
This may not sound convincing on paper, but it did as she said it. I was almost ready, in fact, to swear by Jean Rendall now. "And so you made sure of Thomas Hobhouse!" I said. "But why then didn't you unmask him at once?" "Oh, but it wasn't my business to! Of course I had guessed what you were doing here " "What?" "Trying to rid our island of traitors of course!
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