thirty-nine-fortieths

Updated: June 28, 2025

Without moving a muscle of his wonderfully impassive countenance, without even raising his eyes to look at the interlocutor, Sir Theophilus calmly murmured: 'It is too late! too late! And so, without the authorization of the home Government, without the consent of her Majesty's High Commissioner, without the concurrence of the Volksraad, against the will of thirty-nine-fortieths of the people, and in defiance of the protest of their Executive, as Mr.

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick - The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs