| Robert Bell - 1846 - 396 pages
...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies. I CALLED THE NEW WORLD INTO EXISTENCE TO REDRESS THE BALANCE OF THE OLD." This speech, as has been said of the eloquence of Chatham, " was an era in the Senate." The effect was tremendous.... | |
| United States - 1849 - 606 pages
...fell into the hands of France, it would not be the " Spain with the Indies," because, said he, " I calle'd the new world into existence, to redress the balance of the old." This egotistical flourish was successful. It covered the movement of the allies against constitutional liberty... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...was hard to say whether the cheers of the House of Commons were loudest when Mr. Canning announced, in his opening speech, the departure of the British...prevail, or on his reply, when he declared that when Franco made one aggression on Spain he determined that England should make another, and that "he called... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1878 - 422 pages
...was hard to say whether the cheers of the House of Commons were loudest when Mr Canning announced, in his opening speech, the departure of the British...called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old." 56. This warlike interlude interrupted only for a very short period the fixed... | |
| Justin McCarty - England - 1888 - 364 pages
...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain it should not be Spain with the Indies. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This was exactly what Canning had done. The famous Monroe doctrine which has sometimes been criticised very... | |
| Political science - 1914 - 718 pages
...George Canning, then prime minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons : "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English parliamentary... | |
| Charles Hitchcock Sherrill - America - 1916 - 238 pages
...George Canning, then Prime Minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English Parliamentary... | |
| Charles Hitchcock Sherrill - Latin America - 1916 - 246 pages
...George Canning, then Prime Minister of England, made the proud statement in the House of Commons: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." This striking sentence, pronounced as it was by one of the greatest figures which the English Parliamentary... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1916 - 478 pages
...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old." This passage occurs not in a cool diplomatic dispatch, but in a parliamentary speech, where overstatement... | |
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