 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1853 - 616 pages
...can. PS. I still feel great doubts about the acquisition in sovereignty of so many Dutch colonies. I am sure our reputation on the Continent, as a feature...of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made. The British merchants ought to be satisfied, if we secure... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 676 pages
...own peace. 1 still feel great doubts about the acquisition in sovereignty of so many Dutch colonies. I am sure our reputation on the Continent, as a feature...of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made." — LORD CASTLEBEAOH to LOUD LIVERPOOL, April 19, 1814... | |
 | 1914 - 1016 pages
...East Indies. I still feel great doubts about the acquisition in sovereignty of so many Dutch colonies. I am sure our reputation on the continent, as a feature...of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made. The British merchants ought to be satisfied, if we secure... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - 1918 - 642 pages
...'I still feel doubts about the acquisition in sovereignty of so many Dutch Colonies. I am sure that our reputation on the Continent as a feature of strength, power and confidence is of more real moment to 1 Correspondence, Despatches and other Papers of Viscount Castlereagh, ed. by his brother,... | |
 | Sir Charles Kingsley Webster - 1921 - 476 pages
...can. PS — I still feel great doubts about the acquisition in sovereignty of so many Dutch colonies. I am sure our reputation on the Continent, as a feature...of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made. The British merchants ought to be satisfied, if we secure... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Peabody Gooch - 1922 - 652 pages
...anxious not to annex Dutch Colonies. " I am sure our reputation on the Continent," he wrote to Liverpool, "as a feature of strength, power and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made1." Castlereagh was, therefore, all the more indignant when... | |
 | John Steven Watson - 1960 - 668 pages
...cabinet. Castlereagh, indeed, feared that he had been induced to take too much from the Dutch, for 'I am sure our reputation on the Continent as a feature of strength, power, and confidence is of 1 In 1814, however, the princess showed that she was unwilling to marry the Dutchman and Castlereagh... | |
 | Martin Wight - 2002 - 324 pages
...colonies; at the Vienna Settlement it returned most of them to France. 'I am sure,' said Castlereagh, 'our reputation on the Continent, as a feature of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made '3 - a classic statement of the value of prestige. Bismarck... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - 1937 - 44 pages
...something deeper and more durable than power alone. 'I am sure,' wrote Castlereagh to Lord Liverpool, 'I am sure our reputation on the Continent, as a feature...of strength, power and confidence is of more real moment to us than any such acquisitions which might be made.' It is unfortunate that a similar regard... | |
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I am sure our reputation on the Continent, as a feature of strength, power, and confidence, is of more real moment to us than an acquisition thus made. 