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Page viii
... question was followed by " cheers . " Lord Clanricarde further asserted , that all Treaties between Russia and Turkey - why did he not add between Russia and England were abolished by this act , and he therefore expected to hear that ...
... question was followed by " cheers . " Lord Clanricarde further asserted , that all Treaties between Russia and Turkey - why did he not add between Russia and England were abolished by this act , and he therefore expected to hear that ...
Page xvii
... question is one of balance , the tongue of which vibrates through the Straits which separate Europe and Asia , transferring to the one side or the other absolute supremacy and absolute subjection . It was deemed an act of unexpected and ...
... question is one of balance , the tongue of which vibrates through the Straits which separate Europe and Asia , transferring to the one side or the other absolute supremacy and absolute subjection . It was deemed an act of unexpected and ...
Page xvii
... question is one of balance , the tongue of which vibrates through the Straits which separate Europe and Asia , transferring to the one side or the other absolute supremacy and absolute subjection . It was deemed an act of unexpected and ...
... question is one of balance , the tongue of which vibrates through the Straits which separate Europe and Asia , transferring to the one side or the other absolute supremacy and absolute subjection . It was deemed an act of unexpected and ...
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... occurred in the 105th and 111th Olympiads , instead of the year of our Lord 1806 and 1833. Then they would have been historical not diplomatic questions , as involving the fate not of Europe but of the Pelo- xxvi THE PRUTH AND.
... occurred in the 105th and 111th Olympiads , instead of the year of our Lord 1806 and 1833. Then they would have been historical not diplomatic questions , as involving the fate not of Europe but of the Pelo- xxvi THE PRUTH AND.
Page xxix
... the same views and required him to discuss the matter with me . His objection was , that " any question pending be- tween Russia and England must be decided by the no other than a defensive alliance : the Powers being THE DARDANELLES .
... the same views and required him to discuss the matter with me . His objection was , that " any question pending be- tween Russia and England must be decided by the no other than a defensive alliance : the Powers being THE DARDANELLES .
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Page 202 - 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.
Page 303 - Jungle swallowed up the walls,' said Hathi. 'And what more?' said Mowgli. 'As much good ground as I can walk over in two nights from the east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took.
Page 207 - In view of the death of the king without direct heirs, the great powers of Europe, ' taking into consideration that the maintenance of the integrity of the Danish monarchy, as connected with the general interests of the balance of power in Europe, is of high importance to the preservation of peace...
Page 207 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia...
Page 207 - SchleswigHolstein-Sonderbourg-Gliicksbourg, born a Princess of Hesse, by order of primogeniture, from male to male ; the High Contracting Parties, appreciating the wisdom of the views which have determined the eventual adoption of that arrangement...
Page 25 - Leave the Spanish revolution to burn itself out within its own crater. You have nothing to apprehend from the eruption, if you do not open a channel for the lava through the Pyrenees.
Page 57 - I take the question that is now to be fought for on the plains of Hungary to be this — whether Hungary shall continue to maintain its separate nationality as a distinct kingdom, and with a constitution of its own ; or whether it is to be incorporated more or less in the aggregate constitution that is to be given to the Austrian empire?
Page 202 - ... 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 the drafts for her approval sent to her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off. The Queen thinks it best that Lord John Russell should show this letter...
Page 301 - The former shall live under the exclusive jurisdiction and police of the ministers and the consuls of Russia. The Russian vessels shall not be subjected to any visit on board whatever on the part of the Ottoman authorities, neither out at sea nor in any of the ports or roadsteads belonging to the dominions of the Sublime Porte.
Page 356 - Cabinet — the relative exposure of the two channels in case of war to a coup de main. Any European or Transatlantic enemy of England might send an expedition, to the Isthmus of Darien with the greatest facility and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves upon any one point they could stop the passage ; they would have a long line to operate upon, strong positions to get possession of, no local power to impede them, extensive coasts to land upon, and the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on...