Frasi di George Canning

George Canning è stato un politico britannico.

Ha fatto parte del Partito Tory. È stato Primo Ministro del Regno Unito dal 10 aprile 1827 all'8 agosto 1827. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Aprile 1770 – 8. Agosto 1827
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George Canning: Frasi in inglese

“I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.”

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who e'er ye are, all hail! – whether the skill
Of youthful CANNING guides the ranc'rous quill;
With powers mechanic far above his age,
Adapts the paragraph and fills the page;
Measures the column, mends what e'er's amiss,
Rejects THAT letter, and accepts of THIS;”

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, ‘Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin’, quoted in Wendy Hinde, George Canning (London: Purnell Books Services, 1973), p. 59.
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“Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!”

New Morality. Compare: "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies", attributed to Maréchal Villars, when taking leave of Louis XIV.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I for my part still conceive it to be the paramount duty of a British member of parliament to consider what is good for Great Britain…I do not envy that man's feelings, who can behold the sufferings of Switzerland, and who derives from that sight no idea of what is meant by the deliverance of Europe. I do not envy the feelings of that man, who can look without emotion at Italy – plundered, insulted, trampled upon, exhausted, covered with ridicule, and horror, and devastation – who can look at all this, and be at a loss to guess what is meant by the deliverance of Europe? As little do I envy the feelings of that man, who can view the peoples of the Netherlands driven into insurrection, and struggling for their freedom against the heavy hand of a merciless tyranny, without entertaining any suspicion of what may be the sense of the word deliverance. Does such a man contemplate Holland groaning under arbitrary oppressions and exactions? Does he turn his eyes to Spain trembling at the nod of a foreign master? And does the word deliverance still sound unintelligibly in his ear? Has he heard of the rescue and salvation of Naples, by the appearance and the triumphs of the British fleet? Does he know that the monarchy of Naples maintains its existence at the sword's point? And is his understanding, and his heart, still impenetrable to the sense and meaning of the deliverance of Europe?”

Speech in 1798, quoted in Wendy Hinde, George Canning (London: Purnell Books Services, 1973), p. 66.

“We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.”

Letter to George Leveson-Gower (2 October 1807), quoted in Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 211.

“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 587.

“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”

The Loves of the Triangles, line 178.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!”

The Pilot that weathered the Storm.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.”

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.”

New Morality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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