 | 1900 - 558 páginas
...country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content'ourselves with letting the professors of violent and exaggerated...umpire into an adversary. The situation of England, amid the struggle of political opinions which agitates more or less sensibly different countries of... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1906 - 522 páginas
...security ; but in the situation in which this country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content ourselves with letting...doctrines on both sides feel that it is not their interests to convert an umpire into an adversary." In his reply at the close of the debate Canning... | |
 | George Charles Brodrick - 1906 - 536 páginas
...security ; but in the situation in which this country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content ourselves with letting...doctrines on both sides feel that it is not their interests to convert an umpire into an adversary." In his reply at the close of the debate Canning... | |
 | George Charles Brodrick, John Knight Fotheringham - 1911 - 538 páginas
...security ; but in the situation in which this country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content ourselves with letting...doctrines on both sides feel that it is not their interests to convert an umpire into an adversary." In his reply at the close of the debate Canning... | |
 | Sir Edgar Rees Jones - 1913 - 410 páginas
...security ; but in the situation in which this country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content ourselves with letting the professors of violent and exag gerated doctrines on both sides feel that it is not their interest to convert an umpire into an... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1918 - 642 páginas
...things the attitude of Great Britain should be one of ' neutrality between conflicting principles,' ' letting the professors of violent and exaggerated...interest to convert an Umpire into an adversary.' l Even here he was guilty of some grandiloquence, when he compared England to Aeolus, in whose custody... | |
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... apprehension. It is one thing to have a giant's strength, but it would be another to use it like a giant. The consciousness of such strength is, undoubtedly, a source of confidence and security ; but in the situation in which this country stands,... 
