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CHAPTER VIII.
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THE STORY OF DON PACIFICO.
THE story of Don Pacifico is interesting, dramatic, and peculiar1, and emblematic2 in the highest degree of Lord Palmerston’s manner of feeling and condition of mind. In it he will be seen carrying British honesty, British honour, and British determination to the very verge3 of absurdity4 and arrogance5, till he pushes his principles almost beyond the verge. But who shall say what is absurdity? And he is held to have been thoroughly6 triumphant7 in the whole affair, because at last he got a majority of the House of Commons to vote that he had been splendidly English and splendidly honest rather than absurd and arrogant8. We may be sure that the statesmen of other nations ridiculed9 him, but that they did so with a mixture of awe10, knowing that it was Palmerston,—and knowing that Palmerston must be allowed to have his own way in such matters,—unless he were stopped by his own countrymen. And a great attempt was made by his own countrymen to keep him down, and to prove that he had been ridiculous. Lord Stanley, who, since 1844, had been in the Upper House, brought a direct motion against him, in which he was supported by Lord Aberdeen and Lord Canning; and he carried his resolution by a majority of thirty-seven. Lord Stanley had not forgotten the accusations11 of official{113} ignorance made against him by Lord Palmerston; and Lord Aberdeen’s memory was still
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男爵( baron的名词复数 ); 巨头; 大王; 大亨 | |
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