 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 580 pages
...one of absolute right " Sir J. Pakington agreed,4 " that 1 Midlothian Address, 1880. 2 " Lord Grey was possessed with the idea that it was practicable...of an executive, which represents a democracy. So events took their course and left his theories behind." — Lord Blachford (writing in 1885). Tlic... | |
 | Hugh Edward Egerton - Great Britain - 1897 - 530 pages
...one of absolute right" Sir J. Pakington agreed, 4 " that 1 Midlothian Address, 1880. 2 " Lord Grey was possessed with the idea that it was practicable...institutions, and then to stop without giving responsible governmentsomething like the English Constitution under Elizabeth and the Stuarts. He did not understand... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1901 - 476 pages
...Cape Colony in 1849 was much resented, and would doubtless have been actively resisted if enforced. He was possessed with the idea that it was practicable to give representative institutions and then stop without giving responsible government (Letters of Lord Blachford, ed. Marindin, 299). In his despatch... | |
 | Kenneth Norman Bell, William Parker Morrell - Great Britain - 1928 - 672 pages
...of securing fair and wise treatment of backward races. In 1885 Lord Blachford wrote of Grey that he was 'possessed with the idea that it was practicable...weakness of an executive which represents a democracy. So events took their course and left his theories behind.' Blachford had little liking for democratic... | |
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unable to concede the claim advanced on behalf of the administration of the waste land as one of absolute right " Sir J. Pakington agreed,4 " that 1 Midlothian Address, 1880. 2 " Lord Grey was possessed with the idea that it was practicable to give representative... 