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George Canning
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George Canning : Epitaph: George Charles Canning
'Lines on the Death of the Hon. G.C. Canning' 'Though short thy span of Heaven's unimpeached decrees...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Beanlands group
George Canning : [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him]
'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a general distrust of his sense, prudence and capacity for action... What does a politician know of his trade, when twenty years have not made him pamphlet-proof?'
