Memoirs of Baron Stockmar, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1872 - 555 páginas |
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... friendship of the absolute Powers for Louis Napoleon - His prospects - Rumours of an alliance be- tween him and the Northern Powers , at the expense of Belgium , Sardinia , and Hanover - Danger of a secret war against Bel- gium and ...
... friendship of the absolute Powers for Louis Napoleon - His prospects - Rumours of an alliance be- tween him and the Northern Powers , at the expense of Belgium , Sardinia , and Hanover - Danger of a secret war against Bel- gium and ...
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... friend ( English memorandum ) . 513 Remarks on it by the friend - Stockmar's answer . 526 The results of the war in the East . CHAPTER XXVII . THE YEARS 1856–1863 . 528 The jubilee of King Leopold's accession , 1856 . 530 The Belgian ...
... friend ( English memorandum ) . 513 Remarks on it by the friend - Stockmar's answer . 526 The results of the war in the East . CHAPTER XXVII . THE YEARS 1856–1863 . 528 The jubilee of King Leopold's accession , 1856 . 530 The Belgian ...
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... friend- ship with Stockmar , which lasted as long as life , and grew more and more intimate , as years rolled on . A letter is printed at p . 207 of the Early Years ' in which the Prince gives his own confessions of his Italian journey ...
... friend- ship with Stockmar , which lasted as long as life , and grew more and more intimate , as years rolled on . A letter is printed at p . 207 of the Early Years ' in which the Prince gives his own confessions of his Italian journey ...
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... friend , Prince Löwenstein , from Florence on February 25 , 1839 , as follows : ' I have lately thrown myself entirely into the whirl of society . I have danced , dined , supped , paid compliments , have been intro- duced to people and ...
... friend , Prince Löwenstein , from Florence on February 25 , 1839 , as follows : ' I have lately thrown myself entirely into the whirl of society . I have danced , dined , supped , paid compliments , have been intro- duced to people and ...
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... friends seemed to think it an impossibility that the Tories should be capable of such folly , but I warned them not to expect wisdom as the result of party anger . Many circumstances , it is true , have combined to render the present ...
... friends seemed to think it an impossibility that the Tories should be capable of such folly , but I warned them not to expect wisdom as the result of party anger . Many circumstances , it is true , have combined to render the present ...
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Memoirs of Baron Stockmar, Volumen2 Ernst Alfred Christian freiherr von Stockmar Vista completa - 1873 |
Memoirs of Baron Stockmar, Volumen2 Ernst Alfred Christian freiherr von Stockmar Vista completa - 1873 |
Memoirs of Baron Stockmar, Volumen2 Ernst Alfred Christian freiherr von Stockmar Vista completa - 1873 |
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Página 459 - 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 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...
Página 459 - 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...
Página 123 - They can come on and go off duty as they choose, and they can remain absent for hours and hours on their days of waiting, or they may commit any excess or irregularity ; there is nobody to observe, to correct, or to reprimand them. The various details of internal arrangement whereon depend the well-being and comfort of the whole establishment, no one is cognisant of or responsible for. There is no officer responsible for the cleanliness, order, and security of the rooms and offices throughout the...
Página 3 - to submit to this delay, if I have only some certain assurance to go upon. But if, after waiting, perhaps, for three years, I should find that the Queen no longer desired the marriage, it would place me in a very ridiculous position, and would, to a certain extent, ruin all the prospects of my future life.
Página 16 - DEAR BARON STOCKMAR, — A thousand thousand thanks for your dear, kind letter. I thought you would surely take much interest in an event which is so important for me, and which you yourself prepared. Your prophecy is fulfilled. The event has come upon us by surprise, sooner than we could have expected ; and I now doubly regret that I have lost the last summer, which I might have employed in many useful preparations, in deference to the wishes of relations, and to the opposition of those who influenced...
Página 17 - This individuality gives security for the disposition which prompts the actions; and even should mistakes occur, they will be more easily pardoned on account of that personal character: while even the most noble and beautiful undertakings fail in procuring support to a man who is not capable of inspiring that confidence. If, therefore, I prove a 'noble...
Página 2 - King Leopold writes to Baron Stockmar, who was then in England, in the March of that year, ' and have put the whole case honestly and kindly before him. He looks at the question from its most elevated and honourable point of view. He considers that troubles are inseparable from all human positions, and that, therefore, if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great and worthy object than for trivial and paltry ends.
Página 4 - Queen can make for herself is in the fact, that the sudden change from the secluded life at Kensington to the independence of her position as Queen Regnant, at the age of eighteen, put all ideas of marriage out of her mind, which she now most bitterly repents.
Página 487 - ... but, making his position entirely a part of the Queen's, " continually and anxiously to watch every part of the public business, in order to be able to advise and assist her at any moment in any of the multifarious and difficult questions brought before her...
Página 487 - But this requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife - that he should aim at no power by himself or for himself - should shun all...