 | 1898 - 534 pages
...school, but he proves hla freedom from party bias by quoting a snub Disraeli gave to Imperialism in 1852: "These wretched Colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone around our neck." Had Sam Slick's convictions on the subject of a close bond between the Islands holding... | |
 | 1885 - 474 pages
...1852, whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's Ministry, he wrote to Lord Malmesbury, then Foreign Secretary, ' These wretched Colonies will...be independent in a few years, and are a millstone around our necks.' Some persons will probably say that the imaginative mind of the author of The Wondrous... | |
 | University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.). Haliburton - 1897 - 144 pages
...two leaders in their wish to get rid of the Colonies, (for Disraeli, as far back as 1852, wrote, " These wretched Colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone around our neck"), the people were wiser and more patriotic than their politicians ; and in 1869 (only... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1901 - 308 pages
...political strife, and says, " We women are not made for governing." As this passage meets the eye one can hardly forbear the remembrance that St. Paul wrote...School, and the Imperial statesman of later years ! When a full account of his life is written it will be interesting to see when and how he developed the Imperialism... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1901 - 420 pages
...swept almost everything before it. In 1852 Mr. Disraeli, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote to the Foreign Secretary, "These wretched Colonies will all...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." One of Mr. Nassau Senior's conversations records how Bright, in 1856, expressed his strong disapproval... | |
 | Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - 1901 - 450 pages
...Secretaries of the Colonial Office, recommended the release of Canada. Mr. Disraeli wrote in 1852, " These wretched Colonies will all be independent in...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." Lord Thring drafted a Bill for cutting the Colonies adrift. How far off these jeremiads and vaticinations... | |
 | Herbert Louis Samuel Samuel (Viscount) - 1902 - 422 pages
...Long White Cloud, p. 157.) And Disraeli wrote in 1852 to Lord Malmesbury, the Foreign Secreta1y : " These wretched colonies will all be independent in...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." (Malmesbury, Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, p. 260.) CH. IV 329 that the welfare of its native subjects... | |
 | Herbert Louis Samuel Samuel (Viscount) - 1902 - 434 pages
...urge on him the addition of New Zealand to the then comparatively small empire, saying that "England will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." (Malmesbury, Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, p. 260.) The following are the annexations under Liberal and... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 600 pages
...country would concede their independence.3 Mr. Disraeli, writing in 1852, told Lord Malmesbury that ' these wretched colonies will all be independent in...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.' 4 The Duke of Newcastle declared that he should see a dissolution of the bond between the mother country... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904 - 560 pages
...country would concede their independence. 3 Mr. Disraeli, writing in 180*2, told Lord Malmesbury that ' these wretched colonies will all be independent in...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.' 4 The Duke of Newcastle declared that he should see a dissolution of the bond between the mother country... | |
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these wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks. 
