Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, Bind 2T. Tegg, 1829 |
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... ( Sir Francis Burdett ) , whose usual practice it is to impute to persons in office all sorts of corruption and incapacity ; but we have heard it not from him only ; he has been followed by one of the greatest landed proprietors amongst ...
... ( Sir Francis Burdett ) , whose usual practice it is to impute to persons in office all sorts of corruption and incapacity ; but we have heard it not from him only ; he has been followed by one of the greatest landed proprietors amongst ...
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... Sir Francis Burdett . " What do the whigs think of another Westminster election ? It is true that the honourable baronet ( Sir Francis Burdett ) is this night with them ; but it is only on the understanding that they will support his ...
... Sir Francis Burdett . " What do the whigs think of another Westminster election ? It is true that the honourable baronet ( Sir Francis Burdett ) is this night with them ; but it is only on the understanding that they will support his ...
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... Sir Francis Burdett , one of the most eloquent delivered in parliament since the days of Fox , and Pitt , and Sheridan , produced an effect altogether electrifying . The whole house were en- tranced with admiration , and the honourable ...
... Sir Francis Burdett , one of the most eloquent delivered in parliament since the days of Fox , and Pitt , and Sheridan , produced an effect altogether electrifying . The whole house were en- tranced with admiration , and the honourable ...
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... Sir Francis Burdett's speech was done away . The very fact proved that the speech was unanswer- able . " The best practical comment upon this swagger- ing boast of the president of the board of control is , that he left his friends in ...
... Sir Francis Burdett's speech was done away . The very fact proved that the speech was unanswer- able . " The best practical comment upon this swagger- ing boast of the president of the board of control is , that he left his friends in ...
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... Sir Francis Burdett had spoken , Mr. Canning again awakened the attention of the house . He said : " I beg leave to assure the honourable gentleman opposite , that I heartily rejoice that the standard of opposition is now fairly ...
... Sir Francis Burdett had spoken , Mr. Canning again awakened the attention of the house . He said : " I beg leave to assure the honourable gentleman opposite , that I heartily rejoice that the standard of opposition is now fairly ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 154 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...