The Great Boer War, Volum 1Smith, Elder, 1900 - 552 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 49 - The spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept permanently in the position of helots, constantly chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly to Her Majesty's Government for redress, does steadily undermine the influence and reputation of Great Britain, and the respect for the British Government within the Queen's dominions.
Pàgina 367 - Republics have put the position which was given to them, and the calamities which their unprovoked attack has inflicted upon Her Majesty's dominions, Her Majesty's Government can only answer your Honours' telegram by saying that they are not prepared to assent to the independence either of the South African Republic or of the Orange Free State.
Pàgina 556 - This is the second volume of the series which has achieved one of the greatest literary successes of our time. ... As a 'gift-book, or as a book to take up and read at odd moments, or to devour at a prolonged sitting, this book has few equals, and will probably equal or eclipse the popularity of its predecessors.
Pàgina 557 - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR JOHN CHARLES MOLTENO, KCMG, First Premier of the Cape Colony.; Comprising a History of Representative Institutions and Responsible Government at the Cape, and of Lord Carnarvon's Confederation Policy, and Sir Bartle Frere's High Commis' sionership of South Africa. By PA MOLTENO, Author of
Pàgina 366 - Natal. No infringement of the rights guaranteed by the Conventions had up to that point taken place on the British side. Suddenly, at two days' notice, the South African Republic, after issuing an insulting ultimatum, declared war upon Her Majesty, and the Orange Free State, with whom there had not even been any discussion, took a similar step.
Pàgina 367 - But the result of these preparations, carried on with great secrecy, has been that the British Empire has been compelled to confront an invasion which has entailed upon the Empire a costly war and the loss of thousands of precious lives. This great calamity has been the penalty which Great Britain has suffered for having in recent years acquiesced in the existence of the two Republics. In view of the use to which the two Republics have put the position which was given to them, and the calamities...
Pàgina 555 - Mr. Fitchett handles a glowing pen, and illumines as with torchlight the field on which opened Pitt's long struggle with Napoleon.' SKETCH.— 'Such books as Mr. Fitchett's are the makers of Englishmen in the highest sense of the term. . . . Those who are acquainted with his earlier work will find In this example of his genius the same vivid word-picturing capacity, the same vivid descriptive ability, and the same vivid character-drawing.
Pàgina 49 - I can see nothing which will put a stop to this mischievous propaganda but some striking proof of the intention of Her Majesty's Government not to be ousted from its position in South Africa.
Pàgina 49 - A. certain section of the press, not in the Transvaal only, preaches openly and constantly the doctrine of a Republic embracing all South Africa, and supports it by menacing references to the armaments of the -Transvaal, its alliance with the Orange Free State, and the active sympathy which in the case of war it would receive from a section of her Majesty's subjects.