 | John Morley - 1903 - 1144 sivua
...speeches,3 and neither of them sympathised with the opinion expressed by Mr. Disraeli in those days, 'These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.'4 Nor did Mr. Gladstone share any such sentiments as those of Molesworth who, in the Canadian... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1904 - 480 sivua
...Disraeii's petulance from Mr. Disraeli, who wrote to Lord oT'thT Malmesbury on the 13th of August 1852, "The Fisheries affair is a bad business. Pakington's...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." ' The policy of the Opposition was two-fold. They demanded, first, a clear declaration in favour of... | |
 | Liberal Publication Department - 1906 - 480 sivua
...League do honour to LORD BEACONSFIELD, forget what their great hero once wrote about the Colonies : — "These wretched Colonies will all be independent,...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." The Tory party talk and write nowadays as if they had discovered the Colonies ; the truth is that if... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1906 - 822 sivua
...ex-Minister' contain a letter from Disraeli to Lord Malmesbury in •which, among other things, he says, ' These wretched Colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and Vol. 204.— No. 407. Y are a millstone round our necks.' These petulant expressions have often been... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1914 - 650 sivua
...confess I have no great fear of them, and I think they and their constituents will be satisfied. This Fisheries affair is a bad business. Pakington's circular...These wretched Colonies will all be independent, too, hi a few years, and are a millstone round our necks. If I were you, I would push matters with Fillmore,... | |
 | Erskine Childers - 1911 - 380 sivua
...Governments fathered the Constitutional Acts of 1850 and 1855. Disraeli's well-known saying in 1852 that " these wretched Colonies will all be independent, too,...few years, and are a mill-stone round our necks," was typical of the Tory attitude.* Lord John Russell, in the same year, 1852, was complaining, as Lord... | |
 | John Skirving Ewart - 1912 - 362 sivua
...quoted was written. It was of Canada and her sister colonies he spoke as "wretched colonies" which "will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." And the course of action which he suggested was the old one — settle the difficulty. We probably... | |
 | 1913 - 790 sivua
...expressed in Disraeli's remark (in a letter of 1852 to Lord Malmesbury, which Mr. Childers quotes) that " these wretched colonies will all be independent, too,...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." Unfortunately Ireland was too close to England, and too many Irish landlords and clergy were resident... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1913 - 1202 sivua
...the historian, and others. Lord Beaconsfield, writing to Lord Malmsbury in 1892, used these words: These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years and are a millstone around our necks. I could go on and give further references on this point but I do not think it is... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1915 - 602 sivua
...1 See Brooks Adams's " America's Economic Supremacy." 2 See Traill's " Social England," VI, 684. " These wretched colonies will all be independent, too, in a few years, and are a millstone around our necks." Twenty years afterwards Disraeli, later Lord Beaconsfield, declared that one of... | |
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These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks. 
