 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 604 sidor
...you to be the master of, convey to him in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that, if France throws down the gauntlet, we shall not refuse...Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet AH will just be chucked into the Nile. I wish you had hinted at these topics when Thiers spoke to you... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1871 - 396 sidor
...you to be the master of, convey to him, in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France' throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse...Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet All will just be chucked into the Nile. I wish you had hinted at these topics when Thiers spoke to... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1871 - 388 sidor
...you to be the master of, convey to him, in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse...Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet AH will just be chucked into the Nile. I wish you had hinted at these topics when Thiers spoke to you,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1877 - 572 sidor
...know you to be master of, convey to him in the most friendly and unofi'ensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse to pick it up ; and that-if she begins a war, she will to a certainty lose her ships, colonies, and commerce before she... | |
 | Peter (the Hermit, pseud.) - 1882 - 58 sidor
...know you to be the master of, convey to him in the most friendly and inoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse...Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet All will fust be chucked into the Nile. 1 wished you had hinted at these topics when Thiers spoke to... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1882 - 238 sidor
...to his French antagonist. Convey to him in the "most friendly and inoffensive manner possible that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse to pick it up !" What other Minister ever wrote in language made so monstrously uncivil by its mock civility ? But... | |
 | Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1888 - 276 sidor
...the most friendly and unoffeusive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet of war, we shall not refuse to pick it up ; and that if she...of Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Hehemet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile. Events bore out Palmerston's anticipations to the letter.... | |
 | Lloyd Charles Sanders - 1888 - 276 sidor
...the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet of war, wo shall not refuse to pick it up ; and that if she begins...Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet AH will just be chucked into the Nile. Events bore out Palmerston's anticipations to the letter. When... | |
 | Donald Andreas Cameron - 1898 - 322 sidor
...war. At this period Lord Palmerston's letters are very amusing. " Tell M. Thiers," he writes, " that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse...commerce before she sees the end of it ; that her army in Algeria will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet All will just be chucked into the Nile.... | |
 | 1898 - 584 sidor
...about mincing matters, and wrote to Paris in his jauntiest manner. 'Tell M. Thiers,' he said, ' that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse...commerce before she sees the end of it ; that her army in Algeria will ceaae to giro her anxiety, and that Mehemet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile.... | |
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I know you to be the master of, convey to him, in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse to pick it up; and that if she begins a war she will to a certainty lose her ships,. colonies,... 
