England's Policy, it Traditions and Problems ...

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Macniven and Wallace, 1881 - 410 ページ

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333 ページ - The authority of the Prince of Orange had doubtless an influence on the deliberations of the States General, but it did not lead them to the commission of an act of injustice ; for, when a people from good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of justice and generosity to assist brave men in the defence of their liberties.
51 ページ - The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence would be. the restoration of that line of princes, which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home and consideration and respect abroad.
83 ページ - Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw, " Still blasphemous or blackguard, praise Lepaux. " And ye five other wandering Bards, that move " In sweet accord of harmony and love, " C dge and S — th — y, L — d, and L— be and Co. " Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux...
297 ページ - Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease. We all are changed by still degrees, All but the basis of the soul. So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
83 ページ - Thelwall, and ye that lecture as ye go, "And for your pains get pelted, praise Lepaux. " Praise him each Jacobin, or fool, or knave, " And your cropped heads in sign of worship wave. "All creeping creatures, venomous and low...
332 ページ - After these diplomatic acts, it would scarcely be just to Italy, 'or respectful to the other great Powers of Europe, were the Government of her Majesty any longer to withhold the expression of their opinion.
116 ページ - Parties; and in consequence, immediately after the abovementioned declaration, the High Powers will, jointly, exert all their efforts to accomplish the object of such Armistice, without, however, taking any part in the hostilities between the Two Contending Parties.
277 ページ - I may put before you higher considerations even than those of property and the institutions of your country. I may remind you of duties more solemn, and of obligations more imperative. You profess to be a Christian nation. You make it your boast even — though boasting is somewhat out of place in such questions — you make it your boast that you are a Protestant people, and that you draw your rule of doctrine and practice, as from a well pure and undented, from the living oracles of God, and from...
323 ページ - I dread it, indeed — but upon far other grounds: I dread it from an apprehension of the tremendous consequences which might arise from any hostilities in which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting to this topic.
335 ページ - XIX. In order to insure the execution of the regulations which shall have been established by common agreement, in conformity with the principles above declared, each of the Contracting Powers shall have the right to station, at all times, two light vessels at the mouths of the Danube.

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