The mere division of the House between Free-traders and Protectionists had already ceased; there were breakers ahead, and it was not difficult from this night to perceive that the course of the government would not be so summary as they had once expected.
From his political biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli describes the shifting political landscape in Parliament regarding trade and government policy.
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The doctrine embraces all space and time--nay, chaos and eternity; Divine persons are the agents, and the redemption of the whole family of man the result.
Those who have treated of the agrarian crimes of Ireland have remarked, that the facility with which these outrages have been committed has only been equalled by the difficulty of punishing them.
In less than a century there had been seventeen coercive acts for Ireland, a circumstance which might make some ponder whether such legislation were as efficacious as it was violent.
Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.
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