 | Great Britain - 1855 - 494 pages
...the employment of any means calculated to display the weakness of the Ottoman empire. Above all, they ought to refrain from putting armies and fleets in motion for the purpose of, waking the tomb of Christ a cause of quarrel maong Christians." Such was England's noble testimony... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1854 - 772 pages
...between two great Powers of Europe, but when we reflect that the quarrel is for cxcluiive privileges on a spot near which the heavenly host proclaimed peace on earth and goodwill towards men—when we see rival Churches contending fur mastery on the very place where Christ died for mankind,... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Great Britain - 1860 - 522 pages
...of the great powers of Europe ; but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive privileges, on a spot near which the heavenly host proclaimed, '...thought of such a spectacle is melancholy indeed. Your excellency will understand, therefore, first, that into the merits of this dispute Her Majesty's... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1863 - 618 pages
...two of the great Powers of Europe; "but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive "privileges in a spot near which the heavenly host "proclaimed..."from putting armies and fleets in motion for the °niP "PurPose °f making the tomb of Christ a cause of ' "quarrel among Christians."* Still, in a... | |
 | Charles Brandon Boynton - Eastern question (Balkan) - 1866 - 534 pages
...Ambassador was the first to 'speak of having recourse to force, and to threaten the in' tervention of a French fleet to enforce the demands of his 'country....the heavenly host proclaimed ' peace on earth and good- will towards men — when we see ' rival Churches contending for mastery in the very place '... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...of the great powers of Europe ; but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive privileges on a spot near which the heavenly host proclaimed peace...thought of such a spectacle is melancholy indeed." The actual subject of dispute was a veiy simple one. " Stated in bare terms," says Mr. Kinglake, "... | |
 | ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE - 1868 - 722 pages
...of the great ' Powers of Europe ; but when we reflect that the quarrel is 'for exclusive privileges in a spot near which the heavenly ' host proclaimed peace on earth and good-will toward men — ' when we see rival Churches contending for mastery in the 'very place where Christ... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - History - 1877 - 508 pages
...of the great Powers of Europe; but when we ' reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive privileges ' in a spot near which the heavenly host proclaimed ' peace on earth and goodwill towards men—when ' we see rival Churches contending for mastery in ' the very place where Christ died for... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1889 - 546 pages
...two of the great powers of Europe ; but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive privileges in a spot near which the heavenly host proclaimed...— the thought of such a spectacle is melancholy indeed.2 1 Napoleon was married to the Empress Eugenie in January 1853. 2 In sending Lord Aberdeen... | |
 | American periodicals - 1890 - 978 pages
...that, in a despatch about the holy places, he referred with melancholy indignation to "the spectacle of rival churches contending for mastery in the very place where Christ died for mankind." " I hope," he wrote to Lord Aberdeen, with reference to this despatch, "you will not think there is... | |
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deeply regret any dispute that might lead to con"flict between two of the great Powers of Europe; "but when we reflect that the quarrel is for exclusive "privileges in a spot near which the heavenly host "proclaimed peace on earth and goodwill towards... 
