Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, Volume 2T. Tegg, 1829 |
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... force bill , he delivered a first- rate admirable speech . The additional force bill was a favourite measure of Mr. Pitt . In the views of the present minister , it was inefficient and oppressive . Mr. Wyndham therefore moved for its ...
... force bill , he delivered a first- rate admirable speech . The additional force bill was a favourite measure of Mr. Pitt . In the views of the present minister , it was inefficient and oppressive . Mr. Wyndham therefore moved for its ...
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... force bill is concerned , is purely a question of comparison - of comparison between two modes of applying the same principles , that which already exists , and which has been found good for something at least , and that which the right ...
... force bill is concerned , is purely a question of comparison - of comparison between two modes of applying the same principles , that which already exists , and which has been found good for something at least , and that which the right ...
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... force bill shall be repealed , and its principles altogether got rid of - for the prin- ciples , after all , the right hon . gentleman promises to re - enact -but whether we shall gratify him by giving up a measure al- together , which ...
... force bill shall be repealed , and its principles altogether got rid of - for the prin- ciples , after all , the right hon . gentleman promises to re - enact -but whether we shall gratify him by giving up a measure al- together , which ...
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... force , and the disregard of every constitutional principle that , even so it should succeed , is I think , utterly hopeless and incredible : —but if it was to succeed , what is it that we should gain ? what is to be the perfect produce ...
... force , and the disregard of every constitutional principle that , even so it should succeed , is I think , utterly hopeless and incredible : —but if it was to succeed , what is it that we should gain ? what is to be the perfect produce ...
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... force it is in our power or our policy to raise . With these sentiments he cherished , and would have continued to ... force , it is only as subsidiary to the regular army . He looks for that subsidiary force , not in the voluntary ...
... force it is in our power or our policy to raise . With these sentiments he cherished , and would have continued to ... force , it is only as subsidiary to the regular army . He looks for that subsidiary force , not in the voluntary ...
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Page 244 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 369 - Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might, such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.
Page 154 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day
Page 232 - Heaven, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from ourselves, and from our own Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easy yoke Of servile pomp.
Page 91 - That it is contrary to the. first duties of the confidential servants of the Crown to restrain themselves by any pledge, expressed or implied, from offering to the King any advice which the course of circumstances may render necessary for the welfare and security of any part of his Majesty's extensive empire.
Page 359 - ... to interfere by force or by menace in the present struggle in Spain, so convinced are his majesty's government of the uselessness and danger of any such interference — so objectionable does it appear to them in principle, as well as utterly impracticable in execution, that when the necessity arises, or (I would rather say) when the opportunity offers, I am to instruct your grace at once frankly and peremptorily to declare, that to any such interference, come what may, his majesty will not be...
Page 368 - Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know...
Page 367 - ... are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival, but sometimes incompatible, advantages, that a government must judge when to put forth its strength, and when to husband it for occasions yet to come. Our ultimate object must be the peace of the world.
Page 367 - Your worthy Recorder has accurately classed the persons who would have driven us into that contest There were undoubtedly among them those who desired to plunge this country into the difficulties of war, partly from the hope that those difficulties would overwhelm the Administration; but it would be most unjust not to admit that there were others who were actuated by nobler principles and more generous feelings, who would have rushed forward at once from the...
Page 310 - A certain number of ambulatory tribunes of the people, self-elected to that high function, assumed the name and authority of whatever place they thought proper to select for a place of meeting; their rostrum was pitched, sometimes here, sometimes there, according to the fancy of the mob, or the patience of the magistrates; but the proposition and the proposer were in all places nearly alike; and when, by a sort of political ventriloquism, the same voice had been made to issue from half a dozen different...