 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1860 - 750 pages
...more important crisis than that which their patriotism has thus occasioned to the state of Europe. Instead of striking at the core of the evil, the administrations of this country have hitherto gone on nibbling merely at the rind ; filching sugar islands, but neglecting all that was dignified,... | |
 | Charles Oman - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1902 - 726 pages
...there a more important crisis than that which their patriotism has occasioned to the state of Europe. Instead of striking at the core of the evil, the Administrations of this country have hitherto gone on nibbling merely at the rind : filching sugar islands, but neglecting all that was dignified... | |
 | Marjorie Ruth Dilley - Great Britain - 1966 - 798 pages
...determined action : In my opinion, we must not deal in driblets ; we must do much or nothing. . . . Instead of striking at the core of the evil, the administrations...hitherto contented themselves with nibbling at the rind . . . they have gone about niching sugar-islands and neglecting all that was dignified and all that... | |
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I wish first to declare, that, in my opinion, we must not deal in dribblets : we must do much or nothing. Why do I make this declaration ? Because no cabinet which has hitherto existed in this country — not even excepting that with which I had the honourof... 
