The Life and Times of Sir John Charles Molteno, K.C.M.G., First Premier of Cape Colony: Comprising a History of Representative Institutions and Responsible Government at the Cape and of Lord Carnarvon's Confederation Policy & of Sir Bartle Frere's High Commissionership of South Africa, المجلد 1Smith, Elder & Company, 1900 |
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الصفحة xiii
... Letter to his Constituents - Allowance to Imperial Troops- Mr. Molteno's Retrenchment Resolutions carried - Public Excitement Governor's Counter - Proposals - Direct Conflict - Governor refuses Resolutions of Parliament - Cuts short ...
... Letter to his Constituents - Allowance to Imperial Troops- Mr. Molteno's Retrenchment Resolutions carried - Public Excitement Governor's Counter - Proposals - Direct Conflict - Governor refuses Resolutions of Parliament - Cuts short ...
الصفحة xiv
... Letter of Protest - High - handed action of Lord Carnarvon -Excitement in Natal - Despatches - Mr . Molteno meets Lord Carnar- von's Wishes - Constitutional Question - Debate in Parliament - Exis- tence of Ministry at Stake - Letter of ...
... Letter of Protest - High - handed action of Lord Carnarvon -Excitement in Natal - Despatches - Mr . Molteno meets Lord Carnar- von's Wishes - Constitutional Question - Debate in Parliament - Exis- tence of Ministry at Stake - Letter of ...
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... letter of introduction Mr. Richardson gave him some sound advice , which holds good to - day : “ You see therefore that much will depend upon your own assiduity and attention , but if you conduct yourself with the propriety I fully ...
... letter of introduction Mr. Richardson gave him some sound advice , which holds good to - day : “ You see therefore that much will depend upon your own assiduity and attention , but if you conduct yourself with the propriety I fully ...
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... letters evidence that for many years she was not satisfied that he should be in such a country . A journey to the Cape was in those days a very serious undertaking , the voyage extending over a period of from three to four months . The ...
... letters evidence that for many years she was not satisfied that he should be in such a country . A journey to the Cape was in those days a very serious undertaking , the voyage extending over a period of from three to four months . The ...
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... letter . ' He finally closed his relations with Mr. Witherby on the 8th of March , 1843. “ As before said , it is my intention to give up , at any rate for the present , all mercantile pursuits . As I leave town in a few days and shall ...
... letter . ' He finally closed his relations with Mr. Witherby on the 8th of March , 1843. “ As before said , it is my intention to give up , at any rate for the present , all mercantile pursuits . As I leave town in a few days and shall ...
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action affairs agitation annexation attack Attorney-General Beaufort Bill burghers Cape Colony Cape Parliament Cape Town carried character Colonial Secretary colonists confederation Conference considered constitutional course Crown defence desire despatch Diamond Fields difficulties district Dutch elected England English Executive expressed favour federation feeling force frontier Froude Froude's further give Governor Graaff Reinet Grahamstown Griqualand West High Commissioner Home Government House Imperial Government interests introduction of responsible J. C. MOLTENO Kaffirs Kreli Langalibalele Legislature Lord Carnarvon Majesty's Government matter ment Ministers Ministry Natal native policy object opinion Orange Free party passed Paterson political Port Elizabeth position present principle proposed question railway received regard reply representative institutions Republics resolution responsible government revenue self-government sent session Sir Andries Stockenstrom Sir Garnet Wolseley Sir Henry Barkly Sir Philip Wodehouse Solomon South Africa speech Sprigg statesmen tion Transvaal troops views vote wishes
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الصفحة 213 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue...
الصفحة 325 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
الصفحة 213 - He has the didactic impulse. He has the 'courage of his ideas.' He will convince the audience. He knows an argument which will be effective, he has one for one and another for another; he has an enthusiasm which he feels will rouse the apathetic, a demonstration which he thinks must convert the incredulous, an illustration which he hopes will drive his meaning even into the heads of the stolid. At any rate, he will try. He has a nature, as Coleridge might have said, towards his audience.
الصفحة 289 - I think there can be no doubt that, in any great public, or popular, or national question or movement, the mere fact of calling these people different nations would not make them so, nor would the fact of a mere fordable stream running between them sever their sympathies or prevent them from acting in unison.
الصفحة 243 - Your noble words have struck responsive fire from every heart ; they have been published in every newspaper, and have been completely effectual to heal the wounds occasioned by the senseless language of the Times.
الصفحة 97 - unable to concede the claim advanced on behalf of the administration of the waste land as one of absolute right " Sir J. Pakington agreed,4 " that 1 Midlothian Address, 1880. 2 " Lord Grey was possessed with the idea that it was practicable to give representative institutions, and then to stop without giving responsible government — something like the English Constitution under Elizabeth and the Stuarts.
الصفحة 126 - Since the close of the American war, it has not been the policy of England to vest any portion of the legislative power of the subordinate government of a dependency in a body elected by the inhabitants. The only exception to * There is one British dependency, viz.
الصفحة 361 - ... Britain ; and as long as war was not actually declared in the name of the English Government, he might perhaps regard Winter's indirect hostility as no more than a legitimate act of defence, which tended to prolong the situation, and left the field open to mediation, or perhaps to armed interference. There are " practices " in the game of politics which the historian in the name of morality is bound to condemn, which nevertheless in this false and confused world statesmen till the end of time...
الصفحة 298 - You would, in my belief, confer a lasting benefit upon Great Britain and upon the inhabitants of this country if you could succeed in devising a form of federal union...
الصفحة 214 - ... thinks must convert the incredulous, an illustration which he hopes will drive his meaning even into the heads of the stolid. At any rate, he will try. He has a nature, as Coleridge might have said, towards his audience. He is sure, if they only knew what he knows, they would feel as he feels, and believe as he believes. And by this he conquers. This living faith, this enthusiasm, this confidence, call it as we will, is an extreme power in human affairs.