Mistress of Northern America, the future mistress of India, claiming as her own the empire of the seas, Britain suddenly towered high above nations whose position in a single continent doomed them to comparative insignificance in the after-history of the world.
Morley describes Britain's ascendance as a dominant global power following the Seven Years' War.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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