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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and oftcner found out); but also for refinement, for art, science, and, in an extreme degree, diplomatic ability. Who is lie who has studied the daily history of Europe during the perilous period since the Italian war who can ignore the vast services of Earl Cowley and Lord Lyons ? Had Baron von Goltz lived, he and one of the two Excellencies named above would hare spared Europe the spectacle of the most murderous war which has been witnessed in our generation. Imagine, I say, that city ruled over by ruffians who arrest one another every quarter of an hour, pull down monuments which are the illustrations of their country's history, and decree that the residence of an unpopular minister shall be levelled with the garden in which it stands: if it was not serious as the beginning of a terrible crisis, it would be laughable. The point of the epigram too is, that the house in the Place St. Georges does not belong to Thiers, but to his wife's unmarried sister: and as Thiers is about 105 years old and has no children, he does not dream of inheritance, which Coningsby tells us is a bad thing to do. Imagine Mr. Disraeli in office decreeing that No. 11 Carlton-house-terrace, S.W., should be pulled down because its owner had deserved ill of his country. Absurd you say. Certainly; yet it is just what we have been doing here. I assisted at the demolition of the house of Thiers, and said, ' Let any one who is without political sin among us pull down a stone.' Nothing, however, can be too bad for Thiers?not even the destruction of his sister's hotel?for he has blundered and blundered, and caused a loss of life of at least (as admitted) 11,000 men, when, at the risk of twenty-five lives, he could have put down the Commune at its dawn. They say here that vanity has turned his head; but then...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459095922 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459095928 |
| Weight | 2.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.44 In |
| List Price | $52.90 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 650 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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