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Entry type: Book Call Number: 3121 Barcode: 31290036139467
  • Publication Date

    1933

  • Place of Publication

    London

  • Book-plate

    No

  • Edition

    Reprint (first published in this form 1915)

  • Number of Pages

    351

  • Publication Info

    hardcover

Copy specific notes

Bookplate inserted; pp. 71, 128, 198 earmarked. Some highlights of passages made in margin with pencil including quoting Lord Erskine in “Liberty of the Press” before the Court of the King’s Bench: “In this manner power has reasoned in every age; Government, in its own estimation, has been at all times a system of perfection; but a free press has examined and detected its errors, and the people have from time to time reformed them. This freedom has alone made our Government what it is; this freedom alone can preserve it; and therefore, under the banners of that freedom, to-day I stand up to defend Thomas Paine” [p. 128]; and quoting George Canning from oration “On the Fall of Napoleon”: “Can any man now look back upon the trial which we have gone through, and maintain that, at any period during the last twenty years, the plan of insulated policy could have been adopted, without having in the event, at this day, prostrated England at the foot of a conqueror? Great, indeed, has been the call upon our exertions; great, indeed, has been the drain upon our resources; long and wearisome has the struggle been; and late is the moment at which peace is brought within our reach. But even though the difficulties of the contest may have been enhanced, and its duration protracted by it, yet is there any man who seriously doubts whether the having associated our destinies with the destinies of other nations be or be not that which, under the blessing of Providence, has eventually secured the safety of all?” [p. 198].

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