The life of Henry John Temple, viscount Palmerston, with selections from his diaries and correspondence, Volume 2

Front Cover
 

Selected pages

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 395 - HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his Majesty the King of the French, his Majesty the King of Prussia, and...
Page 394 - Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : — Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Member of Parliament, and her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
Page 21 - We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 425 - Le présent acte séparé aura la même force et valeur que s'il était inséré mot à mot dans la convention de ce jour. Il sera ratifié et les ratifications en seront échangées à Londres en même temps que celles de ladite convention.
Page 437 - Lesquels, s'étant réciproquement communiqué leurs Pleins Pouvoirs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, ont arrêté et signé les Articles suivants: ARTICLE I.
Page 326 - I know you to be the master of, convey to him, in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse to pick it up; and that if she begins a war she will to a certainty lose her ships,. colonies, and commerce before she sees the end of it ; that her army of Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet AH will just be chucked into the Nile.
Page 421 - L'invitation de ce Souverain, et de pourvoir à la défense de son trône , au moyen d'une coopération concertée en commun, dans le but de mettre les deux détroits du Bosphore et des Dardanelles, ainsi que la Capitale de l'Empire Ottoman, à l'abri de toute agression.
Page 107 - One thing is certain — the French must go out of Belgium, or we have a general war, and war in a given number of days.
Page 397 - Sure, the waterway (Thalweg) of which River shall serve as the limit between the two States, as far as opposite to Tintange, from whence it shall be continued, as directly as possible, towards the present Frontier of the Arrondissement of...
Page 37 - We are reluctant even to think of war, but if ever we are to make another effort this is a legitimate occasion, and we find that we could not submit to the placing of the Due de Nemours on the throne of Belgium, without danger to the safety and a sacrifice of the honor of the country.

Bibliographic information