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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... moved him . But , as we have seen , the nature of things was against him by reason of the continuous fall in the value of Cape products . He now abandoned mercantile affairs for nearly ten years . It was not until the year 1852 that he ...
... moved him . But , as we have seen , the nature of things was against him by reason of the continuous fall in the value of Cape products . He now abandoned mercantile affairs for nearly ten years . It was not until the year 1852 that he ...
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... moved off to the frontier with all possible haste . The place I now date from is on the frontier of Kaffi rland , and distant near 400 miles from the district of Beaufort . We are about 300 men from our district , and are encamped on ...
... moved off to the frontier with all possible haste . The place I now date from is on the frontier of Kaffi rland , and distant near 400 miles from the district of Beaufort . We are about 300 men from our district , and are encamped on ...
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... moved against Sandilli , and on the 17th , believing that the whole of the hostile Kaffirs were on his front , sent an order to break up the camp at Burns - hill and for the forces there to join him . The waggons began to move off , but ...
... moved against Sandilli , and on the 17th , believing that the whole of the hostile Kaffirs were on his front , sent an order to break up the camp at Burns - hill and for the forces there to join him . The waggons began to move off , but ...
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... moved out and dashed upon the Kaffirs , who , taken by surprise , fled , leaving the cattle in the hands of the burghers . The latter were now some ten miles away from the fort , evening was drawing in , and their position would be ...
... moved out and dashed upon the Kaffirs , who , taken by surprise , fled , leaving the cattle in the hands of the burghers . The latter were now some ten miles away from the fort , evening was drawing in , and their position would be ...
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... moved away through an open space , which by the unaccountable neglect of Colonel Hare had been left between the extremities of his right wing and Colonel Somerset's left . Mr. Molteno deplored the loss of life which took place in these ...
... moved away through an open space , which by the unaccountable neglect of Colonel Hare had been left between the extremities of his right wing and Colonel Somerset's left . Mr. Molteno deplored the loss of life which took place in these ...
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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.