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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... further mention of the family will be found in them : - Galvaneus Flamma , the celebrated chronicler , born at Milan in 1283 ; his Chronicle was written about 1300. Angleriae Chronicon ejusque Comitum ab anno 606 ad 1280 ; a manuscript ...
... further mention of the family will be found in them : - Galvaneus Flamma , the celebrated chronicler , born at Milan in 1283 ; his Chronicle was written about 1300. Angleriae Chronicon ejusque Comitum ab anno 606 ad 1280 ; a manuscript ...
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... further possibilities , Mr. Molteno proceeded to the Cape in the year 1831 , having attained the age of seven- teen years . His mother was extremely loth to part with him ; indeed , she never became quite reconciled to his self - chosen ...
... further possibilities , Mr. Molteno proceeded to the Cape in the year 1831 , having attained the age of seven- teen years . His mother was extremely loth to part with him ; indeed , she never became quite reconciled to his self - chosen ...
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... further evidence in his parliamentary career when he criticised the shortcomings of the Government with so much vigour and power . The price of wine continued to fall in the European market . In a business where the purchases of wine ...
... further evidence in his parliamentary career when he criticised the shortcomings of the Government with so much vigour and power . The price of wine continued to fall in the European market . In a business where the purchases of wine ...
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... further shipments of wine , owing to the ruinous price of 81. per pipe . In 1842 they write , in acknowledging the sales of wine : ' White wines per Martha Jane at 81. per pipe , less brokerage , and 44 hogsheads per Deborah at 71. 10s ...
... further shipments of wine , owing to the ruinous price of 81. per pipe . In 1842 they write , in acknowledging the sales of wine : ' White wines per Martha Jane at 81. per pipe , less brokerage , and 44 hogsheads per Deborah at 71. 10s ...
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... further be enabled to obtain some knowledge of the barriers to trade and development , in the removal of which Mr. Molteno spent a considerable part of his life . The surface of the Cape Colony rises in a succession of pre- cipitous ...
... further be enabled to obtain some knowledge of the barriers to trade and development , in the removal of which Mr. Molteno spent a considerable part of his life . The surface of the Cape Colony rises in a succession of pre- cipitous ...
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action affairs agitation annexation Attorney-General Beaufort Bill British burghers Cape Colony Cape Parliament Cape Town carried character Colonial Secretary colonists confederation Conference considered constitution course Crown desire despatch difficulties district Dutch east eastern province 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 land 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 resolution responsible government retrenchment revenue sent session Sir Andries Sir Garnet Wolseley Sir Henry Barkly Sir Philip Wodehouse Solomon South Africa speech Sprigg Stockenstrom tion took Transvaal views vote whole wishes
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الصفحة 348 - 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 233 - 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 410 - ... me in thinking over what Mr. Gladstone was reported to have said, and in thinking of his own achievements and career, that there are two classes of men who have played and still play a prominent part in the world — those who accomplish great things, and those who talk and make speeches about them. The doers of things are for the most part silent. Those who build up empires or discover secrets of science, those who paint great pictures or write great poems, are not often to be found spouting...
الصفحة 311 - 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 115 - 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. He did not understand either the vigorous independence of an Anglo-Saxon community, or the...
الصفحة 265 - Amongst no people have I ever met more contentment with their general condition, a more legitimate pride in all those characteristics which constitute their nationality, or a firmer faith in the destinies in store for them. Your...
الصفحة 144 - 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.