 | James Howard Harris Earl of Malmesbury - 1884 - 492 pagina’s
...or we should send some confidential and circumspect agent of our own. be suspended until they have heard our financial measures. I confess I have no...wretched colonies will all be independent too in a fewyears, and are a millstone round our necks. If I were you, I would push matters with Filmore, who... | |
 | James Howard Harris Earl of Malmesbury - 1884 - 490 pagina’s
...financial statement is made. Every expression of opinion on their side will be suspended until they have heard our financial measures. I confess I have no...depth, more than three marine miles from shore. These wretehed colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.... | |
 | James Howard Harris Earl of Malmesbury, James Howard Harris Malmesbury (3d Earl of) - 1885 - 724 pagina’s
...financial statement is made. Every expression of opinion on their side will be suspended until they have heard our financial measures. I confess I have no...colonies will all be independent too in a few years, 1852 FRENCH DEMONSTRATION AT BERLIN. 261 and are a millstone round our necks. If I were you, I would... | |
 | 1891 - 836 pagina’s
...very interesting, as showing the indifference about Canada which has always existed in England : " The fisheries affair is a bad business. Pakington's...independent, too, in a few years, and are a millstone around our necks. If I were you I would push matters with Filmore, who has no interest to pander to... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pagina’s
...bad business. Pakingtorfs circular is not written with a thorough knowledge of the circumstances. Hf is out of his depth, more than three marine miles...independent, too, in a few years, and are a millstone around our necks. If I were you I would push matters with Filmore, who has no interest to pander to... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1891 - 354 pagina’s
...Fisheries question to a settlement while the influences at Washington were favourable, and remarking that "these wretched colonies will all be independent too...a few years and are a millstone round our necks." 1 What Mr. Disraeli said in the ear was said on the housetop by the Edinburgh Review, which after averring... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1891 - 352 pagina’s
...Fisheries question to a settlement while the influences at Washington were favourable, and remarking that "these wretched colonies will all be independent too...a few years and are a millstone round our necks." 1 What Mr. Disraeli said in the ear was said on the housetop by the Edinburgh Eeview, which after averring... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pagina’s
...confession of Tory fears still remains to be told. It is not usually noticed that Disraeli's famous phrase, "these wretched colonies will all be independent too...few years, and are a mill-stone round our necks", was used in connection with Canadian fishery troubles, and belongs to this same region of imperial... | |
 | National Liberal Federation - 1895 - 820 pagina’s
...Mr. Disraeli, the leader of the Conservative party, spoke of them as " those wretched colonies, which will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." I admit that wasaid fifty years ago ; but does not that prove that what has brought uclose to the colonies... | |
 | 1897 - 1092 pagina’s
...the Exchequer, in a letter to Lord Malmesbury apropos of the Fisheries dispute with America, says, ' These wretched Colonies will all be independent too...a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." But five-andforty years ago this was a common opinion, not to say the general opinion, in England.... | |
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These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks. 
