 My Lords, his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions...  The New York Review - Page 357edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | George Robert Gleig - 1879 - 760 pages
...conjuncture ; but, my lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to tarnish the lustre of the nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions. Shall a people so lately the terror of the world, now fall prostrate before the house of Bourbon ? Is it... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1246 pages
...still able to lift up his voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy. " My Lords, his majesty succeeded to an empire as great...unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominous surrender of its rights and fairest possessions? Shall this great kingdom, which has survived... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1254 pages
...still able to lift up his voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy. " My Lords, his majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. SJiall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominous surrender of its rights and fairest possessions?... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1880 - 562 pages
...I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. His Majesty succeeded to an Empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Seventeen years ago this people was the terror of the world." He listened impatiently to the reply... | |
 | 1881 - 868 pages
...I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. His majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent, as its reputation was unsullied. Seventeen years ago this people was the terror of the world." He spoke, pressed his baud upon his heart,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 pages
...I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. His majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent, as its reputation was unsullied. Seventeen years ago this people was the terror of the world." He spoke, pressed his hand upon his heart,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 pages
...offspring of the House of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess Sophia of their fairest inheritance. My lords, His Majesty succeeded to an empire as great...reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of that empire by an ignominious surrender of its rights ? ' How, in the opposite alternative, could he... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...that he was still able to protest against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy. " My lords, his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great...in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we banish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions... | |
 | E. Neville Johns - 1882 - 448 pages
...hand, I will vote against giving up the dependency of America on the sovereignty of Great Britain. His Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Seventeen years ago this people was a terror to the world." These were his last words, for as he spoke... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1882 - 504 pages
...I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and noble monarchy. His majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Seventeen years ago this people was the terror of the world." He listened impatiently to the reply... | |
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