History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1856 - Europe |
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... sovereign : he had not the courage which commands respect , the generosity which wins affection , nor the wisdom which averts catastrophe . Indolence was his great characteristic ; a facility of being led , his chief defect . Incapable ...
... sovereign : he had not the courage which commands respect , the generosity which wins affection , nor the wisdom which averts catastrophe . Indolence was his great characteristic ; a facility of being led , his chief defect . Incapable ...
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... sovereign - and soon began to evince their imperious disposition , and to show in whom they understood the real sovereignty to reside . At the moment when Ferdinand re- entered his kingdom , they published of their own authority a ...
... sovereign - and soon began to evince their imperious disposition , and to show in whom they understood the real sovereignty to reside . At the moment when Ferdinand re- entered his kingdom , they published of their own authority a ...
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... sovereign places his chief glory in being the chief of a heroic nation , which , by its immortal exploits , has won the admiration of the whole world , and at the same time preserved its own liberty and honour . I detest , I abhor ...
... sovereign places his chief glory in being the chief of a heroic nation , which , by its immortal exploits , has won the admiration of the whole world , and at the same time preserved its own liberty and honour . I detest , I abhor ...
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... sovereign nor the consti- tution of the country have ever authorised despotism , although unhappily it has sometimes been practised , as it has been in all ages by fallible mortals . Abuses have exist- ed in Spain , not because it had ...
... sovereign nor the consti- tution of the country have ever authorised despotism , although unhappily it has sometimes been practised , as it has been in all ages by fallible mortals . Abuses have exist- ed in Spain , not because it had ...
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... sovereign . Both proposals were accepted ; and as the princesses were at Rio Janeiro , where the royal family of Portugal had been since their flight thither in 1808 , when Portugal was first overrun by the French , the Duke del ...
... sovereign . Both proposals were accepted ; and as the princesses were at Rio Janeiro , where the royal family of Portugal had been since their flight thither in 1808 , when Portugal was first overrun by the French , the Duke del ...
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Page 465 - ... from the roots and the stem of the tree. Save that country, that you may continue to adorn it; save the Crown, which is in jeopardy, the aristocracy, which is shaken; save the altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred throne!
Page 720 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Page 465 - Save the country, my lords, from the horrors of this catastrophe ; save yourselves from this peril ; rescue that country of which you are the ornaments, but in which you can flourish no longer, when severed from the people, than the blossom when cut off from the roots and the stem of the tree.
Page 465 - My lords, I pray you to pause. I do earnestly beseech you to take heed. You are standing on the brink of a precipice — then beware ! It will go forth your judgment, if sentence shall go against the Queen. But it will be the only judgment you ever pronounced, which, instead of reaching its object, will return and bound back upon those who give it.
Page 525 - OH, Castlereagh ! thou art a patriot now ; Cato died for his country, so didst thou : He perished rather than see Rome enslaved, Thou cutt'st thy throat that Britain may be saved ! So Castlereagh has cut his throat ! — The worst Of this is, — that his own was not the first. So He has cut his throat at last ! — He ! Who ? The man who cut his country's long ago.
Page 635 - ... opinion, that to animadvert upon the internal transactions of an independent state, unless such transactions affect the essential interests of his Majesty's subjects, is inconsistent with those principles on which his Majesty has invariably acted on all questions relating to the internal concerns of other countries ; that such animadversions, if made, must involve his Majesty in serious responsibility, if they should produce any effect ; and must irritate, if they should not...
Page 635 - The origin, circumstances, and consequences of the Spanish revolution, — the existing state of affairs, in Spain, — and the conduct of those who have been at the head of the Spanish government may have endangered the safety of other countries, and may have excited the uneasiness of the governments, whose ministers I am now addressing; and those governments may think it necessary to address the Spanish government upon the topics referred to in these dispatches.
Page 720 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof...
Page 414 - ... with the peaceful habits of the industrious classes of the Community ; and a spirit is now fully manifested, utterly hostile to the Constitution of this Kingdom, and aiming not only at the change of those Political Institutions which have hitherto constituted the pride and security of this Country, but at the Subversion of the Rights of Property and of all Order in Society.
Page 464 - Such, my Lords, is the case now before you ! Such is the evidence in support of this measure — evidence inadequate to prove a debt — impotent to deprive of a civil right — ridiculous to convict of the lowest offence — scandalous if brought forward to support a charge of the highest nature which the law knows — monstrous to ruin the honour, to blast the name, of an English Queen...