The History of England During the Reign of Victoria (1837-1907)

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1907 - Great Britain - 532 pages
 

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Page 188 - 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...
Page 265 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Page 69 - ... an eloquence, the more to be admired because it was unaffected and unadorned — the name which ought to be...
Page 384 - Think, I beseech you ; think well, think wisely, think, not for the moment, but for the years that are to come, before you reject this bill.
Page 253 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their...
Page 270 - Its object was to punish acts of brigandage, to recover fifty Russian prisoners, and to teach the Khan that such conduct on his part could not be continued with the impunity in which the moderation of Russia had led him to believe.
Page 425 - England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice.
Page 383 - I would almost say, as much as a single newspaper article, unless the product of the day, in which the conduct of England towards Ireland is anywhere treated except with profound and bitter condemnation.
Page 254 - Toryism —the maintenance of our institutions, the preservation of our Empire, and the improvement of the condition of the people...
Page 289 - It leaves to the other Powers the liberty of raising such questions at the Congress as they might think it fit to discuss, and reserves to itself the liberty of accepting or not accepting the discussion of these questions.

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