...literary and scientific inquiries. The tendencies of the age, however, admit of no repose. Perhaps, there never was a period in the history of this country when intellectual excellence, except it ministered to the vitiated appetites of the times, or showed itself...

...the commencement of the great Civil War, and as it again became on the Restoration. He forgets that there never was a period in the history of this country when our English nobles were not jealous of arbitrary power, whether it was sought to be exercised over...

...ordained priests of the one true Roman Catholic and apostolic Church." — Telegraph, April 29th, 1854. " There never was a period in the history of this country, when this fundamental principle of our religion was exposed to more insidious attacks than at the present...

...continuance and the progressive increase of the public prosperity. " There never was a period," it said, " in the history of this country, when all the great...diffused through all classes of the British people." The speech of Lord Dudley and Ward was exactly in the same strain. After contrasting the sufferings...

...Ireland will need a defence association of guardian angels to save it from extinction." — Nation. " There never was a period, in the history of this country, when this fundamental principle of our religion was exposed to more insidious attacks than at the presciu...

...between writers on political economy. As long as the minds of men are of varied powers, so long must * "There never was a period in the history of this country,...were at the same time in so thriving a condition." — King's Speech, Feb. 1825. " There are persons who imagine our prosperity is not permanent ; but...

...between writers on political economy. As long as the minds of men are of varied powers, so long must * " There never was a period in the history of this country, when all the frreat interests of the mition wore at the wimt- time in so thriving a condition."- King'* Speech,...

...public prosperity " was far stronger than ministerial prudence and reserve often ventured to indulge. " There never was a period in the history of this country...were at the same time in so thriving a condition." Alas for the instability of human affairs ! In the King's Speech on the 2nd of February, 1826, we have...

...the statement which they put into the mouth of their royal master at the opening of Parliament, that "there never was a period in the history of this country...diffused through all classes of the British people." Indeed, so far were the leaders of the Opposition from throwing a doubt on its correctness, that Lord...

...the statement which they put into the mouth of their royal master at the opening of Parliament, that "there never was a period in the history of this country...interests of the nation were at the same time in so thr1ving a condition ; or when a feeling of content and satisfaction was more widely diffused through...