| James Harris Earl of Malmesbury - Europe - 1844 - 598 pages
...you confidentially on the present state of affairs. I must premise that I speak from myself alone. Our Principals at home are too much occupied with...to what passes on the Continent ; and, if any good * Mr. Ewart was Secretary to the English Mission at Berlin, under Lord Dalrymple, and transacted most... | |
| Christianity - 1845 - 572 pages
...some trivial adjustment of the balance of Europe. In this spirit writes Lord Malmesbury in 1785:— ' Our principals at home are too much occupied with...me this : and I never yet received an instruction which was worth reading.'— VoL ii. p. 113. With these feelings he was little able to enter into the... | |
| 1845 - 592 pages
...trivial adjustment of the balance of Europe. In this spirit writes Lord Malmesbury in 1785:— ' Onr principals at home are too much occupied with the...me this : and I never yet received an instruction which was worth reading.'— VoL ii. p. 113. With these feelings he was little able to enter into the... | |
| Herman Theodoor Colenbrander - Netherlands - 1898 - 404 pages
...zou Pruisen zijn vrijheid van handelen terug hebben, en daarvan zeker ook gebruik maken om zich 1) Our Principals at home are too much occupied with the House of Commons to altend to what passes on the Continent, and, if any good is ever done there, it must be effected through... | |
| Jeremy Black - History - 2001 - 268 pages
...Harris, delivered a pungent and oft-cited verdict on the need for diplomats to follow their own head: our Principals at home are too much occupied with...his person. Long experience has taught me this; and 1 never yet received an instruction that was worth reading.3 Harris' comment can be supported by reference... | |
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