Word: castlereaghs
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...generation after generation statesmen and monarchs have mounted the grand curving stair of Londonderry House to pompous festivities in the historic rooms above. The present 7th Marquess of Londonderry is also Viscount Castlereagh. Prominently in Londonderry House hangs a portrait of his ancestor of whom Thomas Moore riddled venomously...
...past, a time that is done have moved among us for a time with the life of contemporaries. Other and excellent lecturers there are at Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than a volume with footnotes. Castlereagh and Talleyrand, ravelling and unravelling the maze at Vienna, the first Napoleon and the third, playing with the bright counters of empire, Victoria with her angel and Bismarck with the door-knob in his hand;--we have hear about them often, but only known them once. We shall hear about them...
Those who followed him beyond the pale of History 1 are probably more conscious of the originality which informed his work and led to revision of the contemporary estimate of Lord Castlereagh. The personal experience of the making of history which he acquired at the Conference of Paris is equally notable part of his equipment. It lends to his opinions a realism and authority rare enough in the field of history to make his transfer to London next September a distinct loss for Harvard...
Since 1922 he has been professor of International Politics at the University of Wales at Aberysywyth, Cardiganshire. He is the author of several important works, among which are: "A Study of Nineteenth Century Diplomacy," "European Alliances", and his most recent work published in 1931. "Foreign Policy of Castlereagh." Professor Webster is a native Englishman, born in Liverpool...
...times. The late Donn Byrne, like most romanticists, was driven into the past to make his thesis believable. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McCarthy Dillon lived in the Ireland of Napoleon's day. When Garrett announced that duty called him to the aid of England's Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Dillon declared that she would have none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original...