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Há 5 dias · Compared to his dazzling successor at the Foreign Office, George Canning, Castlereagh seemed a bit of a bore. One of the two indisputably fascinating things Castlereagh ever did was to shoot Canning in the thigh in a duel brought about as much by the former’s oversized sense of honor as it was by the latter’s oversized sense of entitlement ...
Há 3 dias · The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, with a Memoir of His Life, J. Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (New Haven, 1993), 40. Back to (7)
Há 3 dias · George Canning served as Foreign Secretary and briefly as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Greek Revolution. His statue now adorns a central square in Athens. Credit: Thomas Lawrence – Art UK, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Há 2 dias · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India ...
Há 3 dias · Poems Books Biography Comments. Elderly Gentleman, The. By the side of a murmuring stream an elderly gentleman sat. On the top of his head was a wig, and a-top of his wig was his hat. The wind it blew high and blew strong, as the elderly gentleman sat; And bore from his head in a trice, and plunged in the river his hat.
Há 1 dia · Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. [1]
Há 3 dias · Friend of Humanity. "Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order, Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! "Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike- Road, what hard work 'tis crying all day' Knives and.