Banquet Given to the Earl of Beaconsfield ... & the Marquis of Salisbury ... on Their Return from Berlin, on the 27th of July, 1878: His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry ... in the ChairHarrison & sons, 1878 - 35 Seiten |
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Seite 23 - I hope with prudence, and not altogether without success, or a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself...
Seite 18 - Well, has not the event proved the justice and accuracy of that view? At this moment, though Greece has not interfered, fortunately for herself — though she has not lavished the blood of her citizens and wasted her treasure, under the Treaty of Berlin she has the opportunity of obtaining a greater increase of territory than will be attained by any of the rebellious principalities that have lavished their blood and wasted their resources in this fierce contest.
Seite 21 - The responsibilities of this country are practically diminished by the course we have taken. My lords and gentlemen, one of the results of my attending the Congress of Berlin has been to prove, what I always suspected to be the absolute fact, that neither the Crimean war, nor this horrible devastating war which has just terminated, would have taken place, if England had spoken with the necessary firmness.
Seite 16 - I have received this expression of your good will and sympathy. When I look, around this chamber I see the faces of some who entered public life with myself, as my noble friend the noble duke has reminded me, more than forty years ago; I see more whose entrance into public life I witnessed when I had myself gained some experience of it...
Seite 26 - There is another reason which, apart from any details of these negotiations — apart from the details of the settlement which we have arrived at — has, I think, predisposed the English people in our favour. They have felt that, however imperfectly, we were striving to pick up the thread — the broken thread — of England's old Imperial traditions.
Seite 20 - No prince, probably, that ever lived has gone through such a series of catastrophes. One of his predecessors commits suicide ; his immediate predecessor is subject to a visitation more awful even than suicide. The moment he ascends the throne his Ministers are assassinated. A conspiracy breaks out in his own palace, and then he learns that his kingdom is invaded; his armies, however valiant, are defeated, and that the enemy is at his gates ; yet, with all these trials, and during all this period,...
Seite 18 - Now, my lords and gentlemen, this is a subject which is I think capable of simpler treatment than hitherto it has encountered in public discussion. We have given at all times, in public and in private, to the government of Greece and to all who might influence its decisions but one advice — that on no account should they be induced to interfere in those coming disturbances which two years ago threatened Europe and which concluded in a devastating war. And we gave that advice on these grounds, which...
Seite 21 - I say it is extremely important that this country should take a step beforehand [cheers] which should indicate what the policy of England would be; that you should not have your Ministers meeting in a Council Chamber, hesitating and doubting and considering contingencies, and then acting at last, but acting perhaps too late.
Seite 22 - It was under these circumstances that we recommended the course we have taken ; and I believe that the consequences of that policy will tend to and even secure peace and order in a portion of the globe which hitherto has seldom been blessed by these celestial visitants.
Seite 18 - Greece, morally, geographically, ethnographically, was sure of receiving a considerable allotment of that partition when it took place. It would be impossible to make a re-settlement of the East of Europe without largely satisfying the claims of Greece; and great as those claims might be, if that were the case, it was surely unwise in Greece to waste its treasure and its blood. If, on the other hand, as Her Majesty's Government believed, the end of this struggle would not be a partition of the Ottoman...