His cosmopolitanism - which makes him in the modern Imperialist's eyes a "Little Englander" of the straitest sect - led him to deplore any survival of the colonial system and to hail the removal of ties which bound the mother country to remote dependencies; but it was, in its day, a generous and sincere reaction against popular sentiment, and Cobden was at all events an outspoken advocate of an irresistible British navy. [Please select]
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_If York House were gone, the town were yours_, and all your straitest shackles clean off, besides more comfort than the city air only. [Please select]
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Many years were to pass before the full implications of responsible government were worked out, but henceforth even the straitest Tory conceded the principle. [Please select]
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Three months respite was a prospect alluring to the straitest Puritan. [Please select]
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Surely not even the straitest sect of the grown-ups could call it so. [Please select]
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Bacon had been brought up in a Puritan household of the straitest sect. [Please select]
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They also introduced an unnecessary "r" into "Catholic" and "Mass," largely, I think, with a view of frightening the parents who had reared them in the straitest sect of Protestantism. [Please select]
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