Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South: By Opening the Sources of Opinion and Appropriating the Channels of Wealth and PowerTrübner & Company, 1853 - 438 páginas |
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... fact it was modest , and knew the matter from the beginning . Lord Ponsonby had written from luxurious Naples , where he was awaiting the termination of the inci- dent before proceeding to his post , to announce that the Russian ...
... fact it was modest , and knew the matter from the beginning . Lord Ponsonby had written from luxurious Naples , where he was awaiting the termination of the inci- dent before proceeding to his post , to announce that the Russian ...
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... fact that line - of - battle ships could not reach that town ; he has more recently ascribed the failure of protection of English navigation in the Danube to the " want of water in that river , " and in both state- ments he has fairly ...
... fact that line - of - battle ships could not reach that town ; he has more recently ascribed the failure of protection of English navigation in the Danube to the " want of water in that river , " and in both state- ments he has fairly ...
Página xxxiv
... fact they knew nothing on the subject and cared as little ; being spoken to about the Dardanelles , they only opened their eyes in stupid wonder or closed them in contemptuous pity . Lord Palmerston's reply , how- ever , constitutes a ...
... fact they knew nothing on the subject and cared as little ; being spoken to about the Dardanelles , they only opened their eyes in stupid wonder or closed them in contemptuous pity . Lord Palmerston's reply , how- ever , constitutes a ...
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... fact to a revolution of all ideas on what has been termed the " Eastern question . " Any one starting from that point is utterly at sea , as the governments of Turkey and England have been . The case of that country is as completely ...
... fact to a revolution of all ideas on what has been termed the " Eastern question . " Any one starting from that point is utterly at sea , as the governments of Turkey and England have been . The case of that country is as completely ...
Página xl
... fact , or in supposition , which necessarily attend every financial alteration . The Turkish military organisation is entirely local , and in that consists not only its excellence , but its economy . The Rediff follow their ordinary ...
... fact , or in supposition , which necessarily attend every financial alteration . The Turkish military organisation is entirely local , and in that consists not only its excellence , but its economy . The Rediff follow their ordinary ...
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Página 34 - 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.
Página 97 - Continent that was susceptible of great improvement 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...
Página 47 - 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.
Página 94 - Much as Her Majesty's Government regret this Interference of Russia, the causes which have led to it, and the effects which it may produce, they nevertheless have not considered the occasion to be one which at present calls for any formal expression of the opinions of Great Britain on the matter.
Página 98 - ... that this will be such a dismemberment of the Austrian empire as will prevent Austria from continuing to occupy the great position she has hitherto held among European Powers. If, on the other hand, the war being fought out to the uttermost, Hungary should by superior forces be entirely crushed, Austria in that battle will have crushed her own right arm. Every field that is laid waste is an Austrian resource destroyed — every man that perishes upon the field among the Hungarian ranks, is an...
Página 157 - British ministry, apparently faithful to that plan which was to loosen and break the bonds which had connected Russia and England, rejected the mediation. The peace between Russia and France was to prepare a general peace. Then it was that England suddenly quitted that apparent lethargy to which she had abandoned herself : but it was to cast upon the north of Europe new firebrands, which were to enkindle and nourish the flames of war, which she did not xi wish to see extinguished. Her fleets and...
Página 256 - 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.
Página 94 - I herewith transmit to your Excellency, for your information, a copy of a letter which I have caused to be addressed to a person representing himself as charged with communications from Hungary.
Página 255 - Princess, the right of succeeding to the whole of the dominions now united under the sceptre of His Majesty the King of Denmark.
Página 33 - Europe is secure from any future irruption of Barbarians ; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the example of Russia, with a proportionable improvement in the arts of peace and civil policy ; and they themselves must deserve a place among the polished nations whom they subdue.