Annual Register, Svazek 140Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1899 |
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Strana 48 - Commons, it was of vital importance for British commerce and influence that the independence of Chinese territory should be maintained.
Strana 147 - Leeds, and became Vice-President of the Council. He was again returned in 1886, and continued to represent the constituency until he became a peer in 1892. His elevation did not interfere with his activity upon commissions, as for example those on the Condition of the Aged Poor and on the University of London. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad, and held many foreign decorations. He produced a great many essays, addresses, and memoirs upon many subjects, but chiefly on education,...
Strana 309 - State by law established, or to point out, in order to their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of Her Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention.
Strana 88 - These things may introduce causes of fatal difference between the great nations whose mighty armies stand opposite threatening each other. These are the dangers, I think, which threaten us in the period that is coming on. It is a period which will tax our resolution, our tenacity, and imperial instincts to the utmost. Undoubtedly we shall not allow England to be at a disadvantage in any rearrangement that may take place. On the other hand, we shall not be jealous if desolation and sterility are removed...
Strana 348 - States of the city, bay, and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which should determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines.
Strana 264 - God, a happy presage for the century which is about to open. It would converge in one powerful focus the efforts of all...
Strana 263 - The ever-increasing financial burdens attack public prosperity at its very roots. The physical and intellectual strength of the people, labour and capital, are diverted for the greater part from their natural application and wasted unproductively. Hundreds of millions are spent to obtain frightful weapons of destruction which, while being regarded to-day as the latest inventions of science, are destined to-morrow to be rendered obsolete by some new discovery.
Strana 13 - ... with the Transvaal has been ratified by the Representative Assembly ; and I have seen no reason to qualify my anticipations of its advantageous working. I have, however, to regret that, although hostilities have not been renewed in Basutoland, the country still remains in an unsettled condition. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, The estimates for the service of the year are in an advanced stage of preparation, and will be promptly submitted to you. My Lords and Gentlemen, My communications with...
Strana 347 - Maria Teresa, Oquendo, and Vizcaya were forced ashore, burned, and blown up within twenty miles of Santiago. The Furor and Pluton were destroyed within four miles of the port. Loss, one killed and two wounded.
Strana 116 - ... with everything around, reduce to one common ruin and desolation the mansions of the rich and the hovels of the poor." ' In the meantime, amidst these disquieting circumstances, the Parliamentary battle for the National Petition was lost by Attwood and his supporters.4 On the I2th of July, Attwood brought forward his motion that the House resolve itself into a committee for considering the prayer of the National Petition which he had presented on the I4th of June. The anticipation of pungent...