Canada Under Successive Administrations, Том 3

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J. Ollivier, 1839 - Всего страниц: 100
 

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Стр. 8 - In truth, it is impossible to deny that impeachment, though it is a fine ceremony, and though it may have been useful in the seventeenth century, is not a proceeding from which much good can now be expected. {Whatever confidence may be placed in the decision of the Peers on an appeal arising out of ordinary litigation, it is certain that no man has the least confidence in their impartiality, when a great public functionary, charged with a great state crime, is brought to their bar. They 10 are all...
Стр. 54 - ... After a few rounds the columns of the square became broken, wavered to and fro, broke, and fled over the brow of the hill, leaving behind them six or seven distinct lines of dead, lying as close as possible to each other, marking the passage of the fatal messengers. This act relieved our infantry of a deadly incubus, and they continued their magnificent and fearful progress up the hill. . . . ' Highlanders,
Стр. 32 - I directed your Lordship to make careful ' inquiry into the amount and condition of the Russian ' force in the Crimea, and the strength of the fortress ' of Sebastopol. ' At the same time I pointed out to your Lordship ' that, whilst it was your first duty to prevent, by ' every means in your power, the advance of the ' Russian army on Constantinople, supposing any ' such intention to exist, it might become essential for
Стр. 11 - your Guards, your corps d'elite, the pride of your hearts, the delight of your eyes, these Anakim, whose stature, strength, and massive bulk you exhibit to kingly visitors as no inapt symbols of your nation, have been so reduced by sickness, disease, and a depressing climate, that it was judged inexpedient to allow them to carry their own packs, or to permit them to march more than five miles a day...
Стр. 25 - To loyal Americans," I answered, " separation seems nothing less than national ruin, and precisely for this reason there can be no negotiations at present with the rebel authorities. They would listen to no terms which did not include separation, and...
Стр. 83 - that it is happy for trading powers, that God has permitted Turks and Spaniards to be in the world, since of all nations they are the most proper to possess a great empire with insignificance.
Стр. 32 - Turkey in making careful but secret inquiry into the present amount and condition of the Russian force in the Crimea, and the strength of the fortress of Sebastopol.
Стр. 28 - Hamelin and yourself of stopping the trade to and from the Russian ports at the entrance of the Bosphorus was inadmissible under the law of nations, and was consequently rejected. The failure of this plan rendered still more imperative the immediate adoption...

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