Occasional Tracts Relative to the War Between Great Britain and France, Written and Published at Different Periods, from the Year 1793, Including Brief Observations on the Address to His Majesty, Proposed by Earl Grey, in the House of Lords, June 13, 1810 ...J.M'Creery, 1810 - 336 pages |
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Page 233 - Considerations on the Causes, Objects, and Consequences of the present War, and on the expediency, or the danger, of Peace with France.
Page 156 - Unfortunately, the system of education of Mr. Pitt was, in politics, that which Lord Chesterfield's is in private life. It was founded on too narrow a basis, and aimed too directly at its object. A cultivated mind and a humane disposition will render their possessor truly polite; sound principles and a real love of mankind, truly patriotic ; but without these, neither the politeness nor the patriotism are any thing more than a whited sepulchre. The system was however successful ; the young orator...
Page 157 - As he spoke the hopes of freedom revived ; corruption shrunk from his glance, and the nation hailed him as her deliverer ; but no sooner was the prize within his grasp than he seized it with an eagerness, and retained it with a tenacity, which all the efforts of his opponents could neither impede nor relax. Having thus obtained the supreme power, the talents which had acquired it were employed with equal success to preserve it. The correction of abuses, the removal of peculation and corruption, the...
Page 252 - ... which their importance requires, but, at the same time, carefully avoiding a strain of reproach ; and even when you are obliged to confess the suspicion of engagements having been entered into such as his Majesty cannot but disapprove, conducting your inquiry in such a manner as shall lead M.
Page 193 - ... not more fatal to his interests than to those of the powers who were destined to be the instruments of its execution. It was time that the effects of that dread which France has inspired into the. nations of the world, should be counteracted by an exertion of the power of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the crisis, and proportioned to the magnitude of the danger.
Page 253 - ... which are best calculated for his own glory, and for the security of his own dominions, as it is now hoped has taken place ; and that his majesty, upon such a change, is eager to forget all that has passed of a nature contradictory to those counsels, or inconsistent with them.
Page 144 - He said, that it was a matter of infinite disappointment to him, that the treaty of Amiens, instead of being followed by conciliation and friendship, the natural effects of peace, had been productive only of continual and increasing jealousy and mistrust; and that this mistrust was now avowed in such a manner as must bring the point to an issue.
Page 141 - ... had thought fit to resort to recrimination, or, at least, to authorize it in others, they could have no right to complain, if their subsequent appeal to his Majesty had failed to produce the effect that would otherwise have attended it.
Page 332 - ... of mankind, require that the struggle should be speedy and decisive, and that the miseries of those who suffer by its consequences, without being partakers in its guilt, should not be unnecessarily prolonged. The thunder may roll, and the bolt may fall ; but when the storm is past, let us hope once more to see the atmosphere clear, and to enjoy the brightness of day. The calamities of the physical world are temporary. Earthquakes, plagues and tempests have their season ; but a protracted warfare...
Page 268 - ... strongest sensations of astonishment and regret. His Majesty was not unaware of the nature of those secret engagements which had been imposed upon Russia in the Conferences of Tilsit. But His Majesty had entertained the hope, that a review of the transactions of that unfortunate negotiation, and a just estimate of its effects upon the glory of the...