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Page 124 - ... to be. The struggles of her patriots, the wisdom of her statesmen, the steady love of liberty and law in her people at large, were shaping in the past of our little island the future of mankind.
Page 9 - Protestant, was treated as a stranger and a foreigner in his own country. The House of Lords, the House of Commons, the magistracy, all corporate offices in towns, all ranks in the army, the bench, the bar, the whole administration of government or justice, were closed against Catholics. The very right of voting for their representatives in Parliament was denied them.
Page 124 - Teutonic race from which she herself had sprung. Her work was to be colonization. Her settlers were to dispute Africa with the Kaffir and the Hottentot, to wrest New Zealand from the Maori, to sow on the shores of Australia the seeds of great nations.
Page 118 - ... systematic observation of the air in mines, to improved methods of ventilation and illumination, to the employment of explosive agents in the getting of minerals, and to other particulars relating to mines and mining operations, the resources of science furnish any practicable expedients that are not now in use and are calculated to prevent the occurrence of accidents or limit their disastrous consequences.