The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston: With Selections from His Diaries and Correspondence, Volum 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 |
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... wanted to bring me in , and not Gibbs . That the votes had been counted by people in the galleries posted for that purpose . That Euston was far ahead , and Gibbs was running me hard That my committee and a few more stanch friends had ...
... wanted to bring me in , and not Gibbs . That the votes had been counted by people in the galleries posted for that purpose . That Euston was far ahead , and Gibbs was running me hard That my committee and a few more stanch friends had ...
Side 58
... wanted that firmness and decision of charac- ter so necessary for a great commander . No one could execute with more ability and courage the orders of others , but , placed at the head of an army on which depended the fate of a kingdom ...
... wanted that firmness and decision of charac- ter so necessary for a great commander . No one could execute with more ability and courage the orders of others , but , placed at the head of an army on which depended the fate of a kingdom ...
Side 83
... wanted to hear . Any great affair was de- bated in a great manner by the leading men . When a new member was animated by ambition , he made a trial of his strength , and was judged by the assembly 1807 . 83 LORD PALMERSTON .
... wanted to hear . Any great affair was de- bated in a great manner by the leading men . When a new member was animated by ambition , he made a trial of his strength , and was judged by the assembly 1807 . 83 LORD PALMERSTON .
Side 128
... wanted . His ambition seemed confined to performing his peculiar functions with credit , without going out of the beaten track of his office as a vol- unteer for distinction . To this general rule , however , there was one exception ...
... wanted . His ambition seemed confined to performing his peculiar functions with credit , without going out of the beaten track of his office as a vol- unteer for distinction . To this general rule , however , there was one exception ...
Side 130
... wanted for a foreign foe . On one of these occasions ( in 1816 ) he had to deal with Mr. Brougham , who had just been making one of those powerful but discursive harangues with which he used to overawe the Treasury bench ; and one ...
... wanted for a foreign foe . On one of these occasions ( in 1816 ) he had to deal with Mr. Brougham , who had just been making one of those powerful but discursive harangues with which he used to overawe the Treasury bench ; and one ...
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The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston: With Selections ..., Volum 1 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston: With Selections ..., Volum 1 Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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Side 89 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Side 324 - One condition required was that I should never, even for the election, set foot in the place ; so jealous was the patron lest any attempt should be made to get a new interest in the borough.
Side 125 - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
Side 23 - Terence, Ovid, Homer, Greek Testament, and a collection of Greek epigrams, and after the Easter holidays, which are now drawing near, I shall begin Virgil, Horace, and some more. I am perfectly of your opinion concerning drinking and swearing, which, though fashionable at present, I think extremely ungentlemanlike ; as for getting drunk, I can find no pleasure in it.
Side 75 - ... a different course of policy towards the Catholics of Ireland. These opinions they have never concealed from your Majesty ; they continue strongly impressed with them ; and it is obviously indispensable to their public characters that they should openly avow them, both on the present occasion, and in the possible event of the discussion of the Catholic Petition in Parliament...
Side 271 - ... and papers now to be produced. In the last chapter it was shown that great excitement had been caused by the Clare election, and by the speech of Mr. Dawson (Peel's brother-in-law) at Deny, in which a policy of surrender seemed to be hinted at. " The Clare election," as Lord Palmerston declared, " began a new era, and was an epoch in the history of Ireland"!
Side 28 - Lord Randolph Churchill had only just resigned his position as Leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he still towered in the forefront of politics.
Side 193 - whom the king," says Lord Palmerston (in a short portion of his biography, which I have not quoted here in extenso, because its substance is repeated in the letters I have given), "had thrown like a live shell into the Cabinet to explode and blow us all up.