The Letters of Queen Victoria: Third Series, Volume 3

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Página 408 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 464 - The Queen returns these important Drafts, which upon the whole she approves; but she cannot help feeling that the main Draft, — that for communication to the American Government — is somewhat meagre. She should have liked to have seen the expression of a hope, that the American captain did not act under instructions, or, if he did, that he misapprehended them...
Página 474 - I am also determined that no one person, may he be ever so good, ever so devoted among my servants — is to lead or guide or dictate to me.
Página 282 - Columbia," but as there exists also a Columbia in South America, and the citizens of the United States call their country also Columbia, at least in poetry, " British Columbia " might be, in the Queen's opinion, the best name.
Página 121 - Noble fellows ! I own I feel as if they were my own children ; my heart beats for them as for my nearest and dearest ! They were so touched, so pleased — many, I hear, cried ; and they won't hear of giving up their medals to have their names engraved upon them, for fear they should not receive the identical one put into their hands by me ' Several came by in a sadly mutilated state.
Página 227 - Whatever may be the usual practice of Prussian Princes, it is not every day that one marries the eldest daughter of the Queen of England. The question therefore must be considered as settled and closed.
Página 285 - Eastern people on assuming the direct government of them, and after a bloody war, giving them pledges which 'her future reign Is to redeem, and explaining the principles of her government...
Página 419 - Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to state that...
Página 274 - It was like a convulsion of nature, rather than any ordinary transaction of human life. I can only liken it to one of those earthquakes which take place in Calabria or Peru; there was a rumbling murmur, a groan, a shriek, a sound of distant thunder. No one knew whether it came from the top or the bottom of the House. There was a rent, a fissure in the ground; and then a village disappeared ; then a tall tower toppled down; and the whole of the Opposition benches became one great dissolving view of...
Página 205 - ... transfer of so many regiments to the Company should be forthwith replaced by an increase of the establishment up to the number voted by Parliament, and for which the estimates have been taken, else we denude ourselves altogether to a degree dangerous to our own safety at...

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