Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266461418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 77: January June, 1855 Mark well the words that we have quoted in italics; for they contain, un consciously perhaps on the part of the utterer, a full confession of that shame ful and slavish truckling to public opinion which has always been the characteristic of the party of which the noble Lord is the leader. Is it possible that this can be a true state ment Is it credible that the Cabinet should have decided against the win tering of the army at Constantinople, for no better reason than that such an arrangement would have been a great disappointment to the people of this country Is it the function of an army to determine its own mo tions, or to regulate the scheme of a campaign? Yet such were the state ments deliberately made to the House of Commons by the great constitu tional authority 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.