...Council (Lord Lansdowne) said early this session : — ' 1t is universally admitted that a Government is the worst of cultivators, the worst of manufacturers, the worst of traders.' Why, then, should it be able to manage or control railways? Vote honestly, my Lord, in this matter,...

...lead, organize, and prepare the way. " It is universally admitted," said the Marquis of Lansdowue in 1847, "that governments are the worst of cultivators,...beginning a museum the endowment is of course the most essenmuseum to grow up without liberal expenditure for the acquisition of collections and their installation....

...lead, organize, and prepare the way. " It is universally admitted," said the Marquis of Lansdowne in 1847, "that governments are the worst of cultivators,...manufacturers, the worst of traders," and Sir Robert Peel said iu similar strain that "the action of government is torpid at best." In beginning a museum the endowment...

...lead, organize, and prepare the way. "It is universally admitted," said the Marquis of Lausdowne in 1847, "that governments are the worst of cultivators,...said in similar strain that "the action of government L* torpid at best." In beginning a museum the endowment is of course the most essential thing, especially...

...the former the common view was, as Lord Lansdowne said in 1854, that 'It will be universally admitted that governments are the worst of cultivators, the worst of manufacturers, the worst of traders'.61 Hostility even to lesser forms of involvement was symbolized by Goschen's refusal in 1890...