Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South: By Opening the Sources of Opinion and Appropriating the Channels of Wealth and Power |
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... British public and the British government are re- assured and delighted by the union of the great European States . It is no longer England , or England and France , interposing for the protection of Turkey . All principles , all ...
... British public and the British government are re- assured and delighted by the union of the great European States . It is no longer England , or England and France , interposing for the protection of Turkey . All principles , all ...
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... British public by the Russian organ in the following fashion : - " In all this there is nothing of a coup d'état , but a legitimate and constitutional way of modifying an impossible Constitution . " - Times , July 30 , Note to 2d ...
... British public by the Russian organ in the following fashion : - " In all this there is nothing of a coup d'état , but a legitimate and constitutional way of modifying an impossible Constitution . " - Times , July 30 , Note to 2d ...
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... British Isles . " - Times , Aug. 2 , 1853 . The French Government has ordered its flag to be struck in the Principalities ; the representative of England is exchanging friendly communications with the Russian General - in - Chief ...
... British Isles . " - Times , Aug. 2 , 1853 . The French Government has ordered its flag to be struck in the Principalities ; the representative of England is exchanging friendly communications with the Russian General - in - Chief ...
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... British squadron , but not till he had received the assurance that the request should not be refused . That assurance could not be obtained . Standing orders at Constantinople render the contingency im- possible . * * When I was ...
... British squadron , but not till he had received the assurance that the request should not be refused . That assurance could not be obtained . Standing orders at Constantinople render the contingency im- possible . * * When I was ...
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... British Government . On a subsequent occasion , my endeavours were in the same indirect manner met by this argument , that " the passage of a squadron would be a blow struck at the independence of Turkey , and that he could be no friend ...
... British Government . On a subsequent occasion , my endeavours were in the same indirect manner met by this argument , that " the passage of a squadron would be a blow struck at the independence of Turkey , and that he could be no friend ...
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Page 379 - 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 252 - 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...
Page 252 - ... 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.
Page 36 - We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
Page 258 - 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 258 - His Majesty the King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of...
Page 432 - Alleganies, and its great sides swelling to the East and to the West, where do you find its immense limbs terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence of agriculture and commerce. The God of Nature did not give to the United States a coast of two thousand miles in extent, not to...
Page 260 - London, at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Page 315 - ... and for this purpose to name commissioners who should adopt as the bases of their proceedings certain principles, the chief of which was that the navigation of such rivers, "along their whole course, . . . from the point where each of them becomes navigable to its mouth shall be entirely free, and shall not, in respect to commerce, be prohibited to any one," subject to regulations of police.
Page 240 - II. The High Contracting Parties, acknowledging as permanent the principle of the integrity of the Danish Monarchy, engage to take into consideration the further propositions which His Majesty the King of Denmark may deem it expedient to address to them...