Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches
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Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches
“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.”
“Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.”
Source: The speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: with a memoir of his life
“I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.”
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”
Source: Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems
Source: Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches
“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”
Source: Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...
“Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.”
“But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!”