Recent Events in the East: Being a Reprint of Mr. Urquhart's Contributions to the Morning Advertiser, During the Autumn of 1853 |
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... on Russia , and the feeling awakened throughout the country by his efforts . We subjoin testimonies of authority which will dispense with our adding more on the subject . At a meeting at Belfast on the 29th of December.
... on Russia , and the feeling awakened throughout the country by his efforts . We subjoin testimonies of authority which will dispense with our adding more on the subject . At a meeting at Belfast on the 29th of December.
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... feelings of those of the professors of the Oriental creed , if you were called upon to admit this HUMAN GOD as head of the Church of England , or of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland . Do not for an instant suppose that the Christian ...
... feelings of those of the professors of the Oriental creed , if you were called upon to admit this HUMAN GOD as head of the Church of England , or of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland . Do not for an instant suppose that the Christian ...
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... the enemy you dread , and the protector they abhor ! Such conduct exhausts the most powerful feelings of the human breast - contempt and indignation ; it surpasses in its bootless iniquity , almost 1 § RUSSIAN PROTECTION . 9.
... the enemy you dread , and the protector they abhor ! Such conduct exhausts the most powerful feelings of the human breast - contempt and indignation ; it surpasses in its bootless iniquity , almost 1 § RUSSIAN PROTECTION . 9.
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... feelings of the man , but the fact is unquestionable that Turkey can now muster on the theatre of war twice the number that Russia can bring against her ; and if these are not all regulars , they are the same irregulars who in 1828 , at ...
... feelings of the man , but the fact is unquestionable that Turkey can now muster on the theatre of war twice the number that Russia can bring against her ; and if these are not all regulars , they are the same irregulars who in 1828 , at ...
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... feelings to enter with patience and laboriousness into this review , in order to remove , not by reason but by facts , the obstacles presented to a just estimate of our position by a vague dread of war ; and for the same reason I have ...
... feelings to enter with patience and laboriousness into this review , in order to remove , not by reason but by facts , the obstacles presented to a just estimate of our position by a vague dread of war ; and for the same reason I have ...
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Page 126 - Secondly, having once given her sanction to such a measure that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and...
Page 126 - Secondly, having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have...
Page 198 - ... that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 226 - This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 147 - whereas, if at all times the Emperors of Russia have evinced their active solicitude for the maintenance of the immunities and privileges of the Orthodox Greek Church in the Ottoman Empire, the Sultans have never refused to confirm them;.
Page 194 - Redcliffe, authorizing him in certain specified contingencies to send for the fleet, which would then repair to such place as he might point out. On the 2nd of June instructions were sent to Admiral Dundas to proceed at once to the neighbourhood of the Dardanelles, and there to place himself in communication with Her Majesty's Ambassador.
Page 246 - ... be agreeable to the Powers, who, by altering and accepting her draught, have made it their common work? It is their affair to consider the delays which will result from this, or to inquire if it is for the interest of Europe to cut them short. We see only one single means of putting an end to them. It is for Austria and the Powers to declare to the Porte, frankly and firmly, that they, after having in vain opened up to it the only road that could lead to an immediate restoration of its relations...
Page 250 - But bringing up the rear of this bright host A Spirit of a different aspect waved His wings, like thunder-clouds above some coast Whose barren beach with frequent wrecks is paved ; His brow was like the deep when tempest-toss'd ; Fierce and unfathomable thoughts engraved Eternal wrath on his immortal face, And where he gazed a gloom pervaded space.
Page 177 - June, 1842, upon Mr. Baillie's motion, the then Sir J. Hobhouse and Lord Palmerston asserted in the House of Commons that Lord Auckland had adopted, and could not have done otherwise than adopt, the views of Alexander Burnes. To support this theory and throw their own blame upon the memory of a man who was no longer alive, and who was not then known to have left behind him duplicates, and even triplicates, of all his official letters, a bluebook was presented to Parliament in which every portion...
Page 178 - ... of his own opinions, when he was in reality replying to ideas thrown out by Lord Auckland. Lord Palmerston, at the moment when he received from Nesselrode a complete disclaimer of Russian interference in Central Asia, had in his possession the instructions with which Vilkievich went to Afghanistan. To maintain a good understanding with the Court of St. Petersburg, the British Government consented to overlook this discrepancy, and bartering lie for lie cemented the bond of union by disowning the...