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Page 209 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 25 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 16 - Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words ? hath he not sent me to the men...
Page 8 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 276 - Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which are peculiar to a democracy; they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those in which it is deficient.
Page 278 - The Imperial War Conference are of opinion that the readjustment of the constitutional relations of the component parts of the Empire is too important and too intricate a subject to be dealt with during the War, and that it should form the Subject of a special Imperial Conference to be summoned as Soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities.
Page vii - The fluctuating, and taking its future increase into the account, the multitudinous composition of that body, forbid us to expect in it those qualities which are essential to the proper execution of such a trust. Accurate and comprehensive knowledge of foreign politics; a steady and systematic adherence to the same views; a nice and uniform sensibility to national character, decision, secrecy and dispatch; are incompatible with the genius of a body so variable and so numerous.
Page 40 - ... extending over a great part of the world. The Chinese are numerous. You have millions and millions of subjects. The twenty-six United States are as large as China, though our people are not so numerous The rising sun looks upon the great mountains and great rivers of China. When he sets, he looks upon rivers and mountains equally large in the United States. Our territories extend from one great ocean to the other ; and on the west we are divided from your dominions only by the sea. Leaving the...
Page 8 - himself, and serviceable to his country, he should always, " and upon all occasions, speak the truth.
Page 37 - It is scarcely necessary to say,' wrote Lord Malmesbury, among the suggestions which, late in life, he sent to a young man just entering the profession,' that no occasion, no provocation, no anxiety to rebut an unjust accusation, no idea, however tempting, of promoting the object you have in view, can need, much less justify, a falsehood.