The Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 5J. Ridgway, 1828 - Great Britain |
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... least , respect for the honour and interests of this country . Before he proceeded to the narrative of the course of these transactions , he would take the liberty shortly to re- call the recollection of the House to what was the state ...
... least , respect for the honour and interests of this country . Before he proceeded to the narrative of the course of these transactions , he would take the liberty shortly to re- call the recollection of the House to what was the state ...
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... least to the sovereigns who had not then actually quitted that city , the despatches prepared for Madrid , and to entreat them to reconsider the contents of those despatches , and the impro- priety of the time for sending them . Such ...
... least to the sovereigns who had not then actually quitted that city , the despatches prepared for Madrid , and to entreat them to reconsider the contents of those despatches , and the impro- priety of the time for sending them . Such ...
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... least the forbearance , with which the strength of this country had been withheld from the assertion of its own rights and interests ; those rights having been shamefully abused , and those interests seriously injured . Not long ...
... least the forbearance , with which the strength of this country had been withheld from the assertion of its own rights and interests ; those rights having been shamefully abused , and those interests seriously injured . Not long ...
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... least , the estimate of Spain as to what might turn out to be just . The business on which Sir W. A'Court , our Mi- nister at Madrid , was first employed there was in the making these remonstrances , and in urging - successfully urging ...
... least , the estimate of Spain as to what might turn out to be just . The business on which Sir W. A'Court , our Mi- nister at Madrid , was first employed there was in the making these remonstrances , and in urging - successfully urging ...
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... least some ultimate solution . It seemed to the British Government that the position of affairs admitted of a reciprocation of good offices : and both at Madrid and Paris , a course of interposition would have been pursued which might ...
... least some ultimate solution . It seemed to the British Government that the position of affairs admitted of a reciprocation of good offices : and both at Madrid and Paris , a course of interposition would have been pursued which might ...
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Page 63 - England, therefore, was to hinder the impress of a joint character from being affixed to the war — if war there must be — with Spain; to take care that the war should not grow out of an assumed jurisdiction of the Congress; to keep within reasonable bounds that predominating areopagitical spirit, which the memorandum of the British Cabinet of May, 1820, describes as " beyond the sphere of the original conception, and understood principles of the alliance," — " an alliance never intended as...
Page 307 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 7 - If there be a determined project 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...
Page 382 - I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.
Page 141 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 350 - Ireland; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland, shall be deemed and taken to be an essential and fundamental part of the Union...
Page 493 - ... these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever. And the same train of argument, which with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties should exclude us from Foreign Trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the Union, or among the counties...
Page 145 - Christianity, soliciting admission into all nations of the world, abstained, as behoved it, from intermeddling with the civil institutions of any. But does it follow, from the silence of scripture concerning them, that all the civil institutions which then prevailed were right? or that the bad should not be exchanged for better...
Page 1 - Londonderry brought forward his motion on our foreign relations, and moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to...
Page 373 - That this house will, early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final -and conciliatory adjustment, "as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment ; and to the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.