Identifier: mirrorsofdowning00begb (find matches)
Title: The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Politics and government 1910-1936
Publisher: New York and London : G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dence. God was surely lookingafter England or she would have perished years agone.In his old age he ceaselessly quoted the lines of WilliamWatson: Time, and the Ocean, and some fostering starIn high cabal have made us what we are; and damned the politician with all the vigour of the OldTestament vernacular. LORD FISHER 37 I have often listened to a ministers confidentialgossip about Lord Fisher; nothing in these interestingconfidences struck me so much as the self-satisfactionof the little minister in treating the man of destiny as anamusing lunatic. MR. ASQUITH THE RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Born at Morley, Yorkshire, 1852. Educ: City of London School;Balliol College, Oxford; gained 1st class, Lit. Hum. 1874; BarristerLincolns Inn, 1876; Q. C. 1890; Home Secy, 1892-95; EcclesiasticalCommissioner, 1892-95; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1905-8; Secyfor War, 1914; 1st Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister, 1908-16;LL.D. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cambridge, Leeds, St. Andrews, andBristol.
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RT. KON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH u. & u. CHAPTER IV MR. ASQUITH Not to mention loss of time, the tone of their feelings is lowered: theybecome less in earnest about those of their opinions respecting which theymust remain silent in the society they frequent: they come to look upon theirmost elevated objects as unpractical, or at least too remote from realizationto be more than a vision or a theory: and if, more fortunate than most, theyretain their higher principles unimpaired, yet with respect to the personsand affairs of their own day, they insensibly adopt the modes of feeling andjudgment in which tliey can hope for sympathy from the company they keep—John Stuart Mill. Nothing in Mr. Asquiths career is more striking thanhis fall from power: it was as if a pin had dropped. Great men do not at any time fall in so ignominiousa fashion, much less when the fate of a great empire is inthe balance. The truth is that Mr. Asquith possesses all theappearance of greatness but few of its e

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