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A far more exciting event than the refinding of the Blue Grotto was the genuine discovery of the beautiful Grotta Verde on the southern side of the island by two Englishmen, Mr Reid and Mr Lacaita, in the summer of 1848.
See, for a very complete statement of Bright's views on the point, his speech on Canadian Fortifications, 23 March, 1865. Cobden's colonial policy is scattered broadcast through his speeches. Morley, Life of Gladstone, i. p. 269. See the preliminary chapter in his Colonial Policy. Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 6 December, 1848.
Under no other government, perhaps, could he have had opportunities so invaluable to a naturalist. But events were now passing in Europe which made his former position there, as well as that of many of his old friends, wholly unstable. In February, 1848, the proclamation of the French republic broke upon Europe like a clap of thunder from a clear sky.
It has its own legislature, which governs jointly with the King, the executive power being in the hands of the King alone. In the great extensions of suffrage in England in 1848, an amendment for the extension of suffrage to women was introduced in Parliament by Mr. Disraeli.
She executed a picture of the "Battle of Issus," which was exhibited in the Temple of Peace, in the time of Vespasian, 333 B. C. <b>HERBELIN, MME. JEANNE MATHILDE.</b> Third-class medal, Paris Salon, 1843; second class, 1844; and first class, 1847, 1848, and 1855. Born in Brunoy, 1820. A painter of miniatures. One of these works by Mme.
This orator was Benjamin Disraeli. A Troublous Time Louis Philippe an Exile The Purchase of Balmoral A Letter of Prince Albert's Another attempt on the Queen's Life The Queen's instructions to the Governess of her Daughters A visit to Ireland Death of Dowager Queen Adelaide. At last came 1848 a year packed with political convulsions and overthrows.
Political action is the people of Paris taking possession of the Hôtel de Ville in 1871. It is the Parisian workers marching upon the National Assembly in 1848.... To those who go about claiming that political action, as extolled by the party, reduces itself to the production of public officials, you will oppose a flat denial. Political action is, moreover, not the production of laws.
We ask this, not because we do not love Miss Fiske. No! no! this is not in our hearts; but she is weak, and her work is more than she can do alone. "Please remember us in your closets and in your meetings, and ask your friends to pray for us and for our people. Farewell, beloved sisters." The following extracts are from a letter written by them, in 1848, to Miss Susan L. Tolman, now Mrs.
The Welland Canal was built to carry east-bound traffic beyond the point where Buffalo tapped it, and by 1848, as we have seen, canals were completed on the St Lawrence, providing a nine-foot waterway from Chicago to Montreal. It was a magnificent effort for a struggling colony.
Nevertheless, a belief, whether well grounded or not, in a common racial origin is one of the root principles of the idea of nationality. "What is a nation?" the great Magyar nationalist, Kossuth, asked a Serb representative at the Hungarian Diet of 1848. The reply was: "A race which possesses its own language, customs, and culture, and enough self-consciousness to preserve them."
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