British Eloquence: Daniel O'Connell. Lord Palmerston. Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke. The right honorable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. Lord RoseberyCharles Kendall Adams, John Alden G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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... France , Russia , and Great Britain , foreigners and their rights had met with no nice consideration at the hands of King Otho and his officials . Certain Ionian subjects of the Queen had suffered insult or damages ; a midshipman of ...
... France , Russia , and Great Britain , foreigners and their rights had met with no nice consideration at the hands of King Otho and his officials . Certain Ionian subjects of the Queen had suffered insult or damages ; a midshipman of ...
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... France , the third party , aflame with jealousy and distrust , from now on almost made the Greek cause her own . Ostensibly , however , she came forward with proposals of arbitration ; and England saw it her affair to accept the good ...
... France , the third party , aflame with jealousy and distrust , from now on almost made the Greek cause her own . Ostensibly , however , she came forward with proposals of arbitration ; and England saw it her affair to accept the good ...
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... France and England had been a game of bluff ; and , by the agency of Lord Palm- erston , the English bluff had won . In due time France returned her Ambassador to St. James ; and all was as before . As to the speech , there is no doubt ...
... France and England had been a game of bluff ; and , by the agency of Lord Palm- erston , the English bluff had won . In due time France returned her Ambassador to St. James ; and all was as before . As to the speech , there is no doubt ...
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... France , and Russia determined upon interposing , and ultimately , in 1828 , they resolved to employ forcible means . in order to bring Turkey to acknowledge the independence of Greece . Greece , by protocol in 1830 , and by treaty in ...
... France , and Russia determined upon interposing , and ultimately , in 1828 , they resolved to employ forcible means . in order to bring Turkey to acknowledge the independence of Greece . Greece , by protocol in 1830 , and by treaty in ...
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... France we might find sympathy with our polit- ical opinions , and support in the advice which we wished to give . But we were unfortunate . The then Government of France , not at all un- dervaluing constitutional institutions , thought ...
... France we might find sympathy with our polit- ical opinions , and support in the advice which we wished to give . But we were unfortunate . The then Government of France , not at all un- dervaluing constitutional institutions , thought ...
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Страница 28 - In plain truth,' he said, in language which there is every reason to believe expressed his deepest conviction, 'every religion is good — every religion is true to him who in his due caution and conscience believes it. There is but one bad religion, that of a man who professes a faith which he does not believe ; but the good religion may be, and often is, corrupted by the wretched and wicked prejudices which admit a difference of opinion as a cause of hatred.
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