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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... Constitution was established , providing for a Legislative Council to be elected by the Colony in two great constituencies , and a Parliament also elected freely by the people ; but Earl Grey declared , in reply to the Attorney ...
... Constitution was established , providing for a Legislative Council to be elected by the Colony in two great constituencies , and a Parliament also elected freely by the people ; but Earl Grey declared , in reply to the Attorney ...
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... Constitution required not only the presence but the participation of the Executive in the Legislature , prophesying that the attempt to make the Executive independent of the Legislature would be fatal , unless it were maintained by ...
... Constitution required not only the presence but the participation of the Executive in the Legislature , prophesying that the attempt to make the Executive independent of the Legislature would be fatal , unless it were maintained by ...
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... that it could no longer be delayed . Without denying that the pre- sent constitution had done good , yet he conceived that if they did not go on and complete their free institutions , they must retrograde . It had been found that under the.
... that it could no longer be delayed . Without denying that the pre- sent constitution had done good , yet he conceived that if they did not go on and complete their free institutions , they must retrograde . It had been found that under the.
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... constitution the House had very little control over public expenditure , and the conviction of this fact was producing a bad effect upon the public mind . The country was becoming of opinion that its representative institutions were of ...
... constitution the House had very little control over public expenditure , and the conviction of this fact was producing a bad effect upon the public mind . The country was becoming of opinion that its representative institutions were of ...
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... constitutional principle . To its neglect subsequently in the case of the annexation of the Transvaal , when the Government was overridden and the Legislature ignored , may be traced the serious evils which followed the hasty seizure of ...
... constitutional principle . To its neglect subsequently in the case of the annexation of the Transvaal , when the Government was overridden and the Legislature ignored , may be traced the serious evils which followed the hasty seizure of ...
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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.