Annual Register, Band 121Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1880 |
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... taken in the announcement that Sir Bartle Frere had declared war upon the King of the Zulus . One of Mr. Tenniel's cartoons in Punch very faithfully indicated the amount of importance that was attached to this " little war . " England ...
... taken in the announcement that Sir Bartle Frere had declared war upon the King of the Zulus . One of Mr. Tenniel's cartoons in Punch very faithfully indicated the amount of importance that was attached to this " little war . " England ...
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... taken of this acquiescence on our part to lead the Kaffirs to suppose that the Colonial Government is in league with their enemies , that it appears , in my humble judgment , that the moment is fast approaching when Her Majesty's ...
... taken of this acquiescence on our part to lead the Kaffirs to suppose that the Colonial Government is in league with their enemies , that it appears , in my humble judgment , that the moment is fast approaching when Her Majesty's ...
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... taken to heart . But wherever there may have been a want of caution , there was no such want now on the part of Lord Chelmsford . He did not move to the relief of Ekowe till the first reinforcements to start from England had reached ...
... taken to heart . But wherever there may have been a want of caution , there was no such want now on the part of Lord Chelmsford . He did not move to the relief of Ekowe till the first reinforcements to start from England had reached ...
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... taken up , but had not proceeded far when he made an abrupt ending in the middle of a sentence . Mr. Lowe spoke from the first with noticeable difficulty , but there was all the old pungency and humour in his criticisms . The next ...
... taken up , but had not proceeded far when he made an abrupt ending in the middle of a sentence . Mr. Lowe spoke from the first with noticeable difficulty , but there was all the old pungency and humour in his criticisms . The next ...
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... taken to mean that the evacuation should be completed by that date . On May 5 , Lord Salisbury explained at length how the Government construed the terms of the article relating to evacuation . The corps of occupation was fixed in that ...
... taken to mean that the evacuation should be completed by that date . On May 5 , Lord Salisbury explained at length how the Government construed the terms of the article relating to evacuation . The corps of occupation was fixed in that ...
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Afghan Afghanistan announced appointed army attack authority Berlin Bill Bishop Boers born British Bulgaria Cabinet Cabul Cetshwayo Chamber Charles chief Church Colonel Colonial Committee Council Court Crown daughter death debate declared Deputies died Duke Earl elected England English expenditure favour force foreign France French German Government held Henry honour House India interest Ireland Irish Ismail Pasha John Khedive King labour land late Liberal London Lord Beaconsfield Lord Chelmsford Lord Hartington Lord Salisbury majority March ment military Minister Ministry Natal National native officers Oxford Paris Parliament party Pasha passed political present President Prince Bismarck proposed question railway received reform resigned resolution Royal Russian Senate sent Signor Sir Bartle Frere Sir Charles Dilke Sir Stafford Northcote South speech tion took Treaty Treaty of Berlin troops vote William Zulu War Zulus
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Seite 314 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
Seite 332 - If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties.
Seite 9 - Government are not prepared to comply with the request for a reinforcement of troops. All the information that has hitherto reached them with respect to the position of affairs in Zululand appears to them to justify a confident hope that by the exercise of prudence, and by meeting the Zulus in a spirit of forbearance and...
Seite 286 - There is no duty which so much embarrasses the Executive and heads of Departments as that of appointments ; nor is there any such arduous and thankless labor imposed on Senators and Representatives as that of finding places for constituents. The present system does not secure the best men, and often not even fit men, for public place. The elevation and purification of the civil service of the Government will be hailed with approval by the whole people of the United States.
Seite 226 - Roebuck gave notice that he would move for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the army before Sebastopol, and into the conduct of those departments of the Government whose duty it had been to minister to the wants of the army.
Seite 171 - When the protector died, Hale refused to receive a new commission from Richard Cromwell. In the same year, he was returned as one of the members for the university of Oxford ; and, in 1660, he appeared as knight of the shire for the county of Gloucester, in the parliament which recalled Charles II. He was not, however, for admitting the king without reasonable restrictions, being no friend to the indefeasible right of prerogative. He moved that a committee...
Seite 273 - Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever : a Poem in Twelve Books. By Edward Henry Bickersteth, MA, Incumbent of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon.
Seite 226 - Cambridge ; was called to the Bar by the Hon Society of the Inner Temple in 1832 ; and was returned to Parliament for the borough of Totnes at the General Election of 1852.
Seite 116 - I wish to dissipate, if I can, the idle dreams of those who are always telling you that the strength of England depends, sometimes they say upon its prestige, sometimes they say upon its extending its Empire, or upon what it possesses beyond these shores.