 | Edward Armstrong - Spain - 1892 - 472 pages
...parties in this kingdom against any scheme for the restitution of Gibraltar upon any conditions whatever. And I am afraid that the bare mention of a proposal...place would be sufficient to put the whole nation in a flame."2 The suggestion to tempt the queen by proposals for the advancement of her family was more... | |
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - Cabinet system - 1894 - 574 pages
...parties in the Kingdom against any scheme for restitution on any terms whatever ; and he was persuaded that the bare mention of a proposal which carried...be sufficient to put the whole nation in a flame. All that they could do to soften the King of Spain and appease the ill will the Spanish nation had... | |
 | Walter Frewen Lord - France - 1901 - 362 pages
...— " What you propose in relation to Gibraltar (that is, the unconditional surrender of the Rock) is certainly very reasonable, and is exactly conformable...be sufficient to put the whole nation in a flame." Here then is a complete epitome of the situation. The Ministry and the Ambassador anxious, and markedly... | |
 | Isaac Saunders Leadam - Great Britain - 1909 - 636 pages
...at home the unanimous resolution of the Spanish king and people, Townshend on June 14, 1728, replied that " the bare mention of a proposal which carried...would be sufficient to put the whole nation in a flame ". With this fixed resolve on either side it was impossible to make real progress. The indisposition... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - Great Britain - 1912 - 610 pages
...at home the unanimous resolution of the Spanish king and people, Townshend on June 14, 1728, replied that " the bare mention of a proposal which carried...would be sufficient to put the whole nation in a flame ". With this fixed resolve on either side it was impossible to make real progress. The indisposition... | |
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But you cannot but be sensible of the violent and almost superstitious zeal which has of late prevailed among all parties in this kingdom, against any scheme for the restitution of Gibraltar, upon any conditions whatsoever ; and I am afraid that the bare... 
