The Life of Granville George Leveson Gower: Second Earl Granville, K. G., 1815-1891, Volum 1

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Pàgina 10 - In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much; With equal advantage the French are content: So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Pàgina 450 - We are convinced, I am convinced at least, that if any violent attempt were made to overthrow those rights and interfere with that independence, those who made the attempt would find in the result that it would not be Denmark alone with which they would have to contend...
Pàgina 422 - ... in principle entirely alter the character of the religious teaching for the rest of the scholars, and in fact upset the whole system. The dissenter, on the other hand, ought (in my opinion) to be entitled to withdraw his child from the risk (if he considers it such) of receiving instruction of the kind I describe.
Pàgina 124 - I wish for a peaceful term of office. But I cannot forget that in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud may arise, no larger than a man's hand, but which, growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin.
Pàgina 30 - ... itself to which Miss Edgeworth did not contribute. To this department — the terror novel, novel of mystery, novel of suspense, or whatever title it may most willingly bear — we must now come. With the revolutionary group1, it practically divides the space usually allotted to the novel itself for the last decade of the eighteenth, and the first of the nineteenth, century ; though there was an immense production in other varieties. Its own courts or precincts were populous, but with a folk,...
Pàgina 400 - Her Majesty's Government, bearing in mind the friendly relations which have long subsisted between Great Britain and the United States, are willing to believe that the United States...
Pàgina 272 - ... just. I will not govern in anger. Justice, and that as stern and inflexible as law and might can make it, I will deal out. But I will never allow an angry and undiscriminating act or word to proceed from the government of India as long as I am responsible for it.
Pàgina 442 - In any case I doubt, if the war continues long after our recognition of the South, whether it will be possible for us to avoid drifting into it. The expectation of an immediate supply of the best cotton will have been raised in this country. The dislike which now exists between us will be much increased. The North will become desperate, and even against their intentions will give us innumerable casus belli.
Pàgina 474 - Her Majesty thinks that it is quite right that we should not now mix ourselves up in the question, and that Prussia should at least be made aware of what she and her Government, and every honest man in Europe, must think of the gross and unblushing violation of every assurance and pledge that she had given, which Prussia has been guilty of.
Pàgina 44 - Palmerston for three hours. He received him with the greatest cordiality and good humour. ' Ah, how are you, Granville ? Well, you have ' got a very interesting office, but you will find it very ' laborious ; seven or eight hours...

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