 | Francis Rawdon Chesney - 1854 - 388 páginas
...; but while I inherited immense territorial possessions, I did not inherit those visions — those intentions, if you like to call them so. On the contrary,...in me to desire more territory or more power than 1 possess ; on the contrary, I am the first to tell you, that our great, perhaps our only danger, is... | |
 | 1854 - 908 páginas
...time ; but while I inherited immense territorial possessions, I did not inherit those visions, those intentions, if you like to call them so. On the contrary,...in me to desire more territory or more power than 1 possess ; on the contrary, I am the first to tell you that our great, perhaps our only danger, is... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 952 páginas
...might be used to control and curb her power. " His imperial majesty has justly and wisely said :— ' My country is so vast, so happily circumstanced in...territory or more power than I possess. On the contrary,' he observed, ' our great, perhaps our only danger, is that which would arise from an extension given... | |
 | Carl Heinrich Ludwig Retslag - 1854 - 174 páginas
...heart, and certainly more hypocritical than the words of the Emperor Nicholas to Sir GH Seymour :* " On the contrary, my country is so vast, so happily circumstanced in every way, that it would * See Sir GH Seymour's despatch to Lord John Eusaell from St. Petcrsburgh, January 22, 1853. be unreasonable... | |
 | George Fowler - 1855 - 358 páginas
...territorial possessions, I did not inherit these visions — these intentions — if you like to call them. On the contrary, my country is so vast, so happily circumstanced in even' way, that it would be unreasonable in me to desire more territory or more power than I possess... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1856 - 480 páginas
...inherited her immense territorial possessions, I did not inherit those visions, and her intentions. On the contrary, my country is so vast, so happily circumstanced in every way, that it would * "Nous avons BUT les bras un homme malade, — un homme gravement malade ; ce sera un grand malheur... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1858 - 472 páginas
...inherited her immense territorial possessions, I did not inherit those visions, and her intentions. On the contrary, my country is so vast,. so happily circumstanced in every way, that it would * "Nous avons sur les bras un homme uialndo, — un homme ^raii«* ment malade ; ce sera un grand malhcur... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1863 - 618 páginas
...time; but while I inherited immense "territorial possessions, I did not inherit those visions, "those intentions if you like to call them so. On the "contrary, my country is so vast, so happily eireum"stanced in every way, that it would be unreason"able in me to desire more territory or more... | |
 | William Stokes - 1869 - 328 páginas
...the aggrandising visions of the Empress Catherine, said: — "I do not inherit those visions, those intentions, if you like to call them so. On the contrary,...possess; on the contrary, I am the first to tell you that our1 great, perhaps our only danger, is that which would arise from an extension given to an empire... | |
 | Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe Strangford (Viscount) - 1869 - 394 páginas
...your Government must have received incorrect information. I repeat that the sick man is dying. It is unreasonable in me to desire more territory or more...tell you that our great, perhaps our only, danger arises from extension ; but, eager as we all are for the prolonged existence of the sick man (and that... | |
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I did not inherit those visions—those intentions, if you like to call them so. On the contrary, my country is so vast, so happily circumstanced in every way, that it would be unreasonable in me to desire more territory or more power than I possess ;... 
