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George Canning (11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827 / London, England)
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George Canning PC, FRS was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister.
Early life: 1770–1793
Canning was born into an Anglo-Irish family at his parents' home in Queen Anne Street, Marylebone, London. Canning described himself as "an Irishman born in London". His father, George Canning, Sr., of Garvagh, County Londonderry, Ireland, was a gentleman of limited means, a failed wine merchant and lawyer, who renounced his right to inherit the family estate in exchange for payment of his substantial debts. George Sr. eventually abandoned the family and died in poverty on 11 April 1771, his son's first birthday, in ... more »
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''In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
George Canning (1770-1827), British poet. A Political Despatch (l. 1-2). . . Faber Book of Comic Verse, The. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith,...
Is offering too little and asking too much.''
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In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
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Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per c...
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Give me th' avowed, th' erect, the manly foe,
George Canning (1770-1827), British statesman, prime minister. The New Morality, l. 207-10 (1798).
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the...
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Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must ...
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