The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the Invasion by Julius Caesar to the Year 1846, Volume 12

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Blackie and Son, 1851
 

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Page 56 - As a sincere lover of peace, I will not sacrifice it by grasping at the shadow when the reality is not substantially within my reach. Cur igitur pacem nolo? Quia infida est, quia periculosa, quia esse non potest.
Page 133 - ... Parisians were speculating upon the trial and punishment of the culprits, a mysterious and fearful deed of blood had been perpetrated close to the capital, the sudden announcement of which produced a profound sensation of horror not only in France, but throughout Europe. The Duke of Enghien, eldest son of the Duke of Bourbon, and grandson of the Prince of Conde...
Page 172 - Melville of the high crimes and misdemeanors charged upon him by the impeachment of the Commons, and of all things contained therein.
Page 111 - I trust I may venture to say, that if it be to fall, it will fall only under the ruins of the British empire. It is an awful consideration, gentlemen. Every other monument of European liberty has perished. That ancient fabric which has been gradually reared by the wisdom and virtue of our fathers still stands — It stands, thanks be to God ! solid and entire — but it stands alone, and it stands amidst ruins.
Page 163 - William Ewart Gladstone be interred at the public charge, and that a monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, with an inscription expressive of the public admiration and attachment and of the high sense entertained of his rare and splendid gifts, and of his devoted labours in parliament and in great offices of state, and to assure her Majesty that this House will make good the expenses attending the same.
Page 157 - Prince d'Echmuhl on the part of the French army. This convention decides all the military questions at this moment existing here, and touches nothing political. General Lord Hill has marched to take possession of the posts evacuated by agreement this day, and I propose to-morrow to take possession of Montmartre. I send this dispatch by my aide-de-camp, captain Lord Arthur Hill, by way of Calais.
Page 6 - That his Majesty's ministers, having authorised and directed, at different times, without the consent, and during the sitting of Parliament, the issue of various sums of money for the service of his Imperial Majesty, and also for the service of the army under the Prince of Condc, have acted contrary to their duty, and to the trust reposed in them, and have thereby violated the constitutional privileges of this House.
Page 38 - No coffin could be procured, and the officers of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was, in a military cloak and blankets. The interment was hastened : for about eight in the morning some firing was heard, and the officers feared that if a serious attack...
Page 50 - Helder should be restored in their present state ; that " eight thousand prisoners of war, French and Batavians, taken before the present campaign, and now detained in England, should be restored without conditions to their respective countries;" and finally, that Majorgeneral Knox should remain with the French to guarantee the execution of this convention.
Page 108 - Europe were driven from their homes by the daggers of assassins ; when our shores were covered, as with the wreck of a great tempest, with old men, and women, and children, and ministers of religion, who fled from the ferocity of their countrymen as before an army of invading barbarians.

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